School me on exterior, bumpers, etc.

Ok so I've had a Dodge Truck in the past and it was a beater so I really didn't pay much attention to them. But since I sent the beater to the pasture and picked up a new one I've started paying more attention to others out there. Been thinking about the master plan for updates and mods.

Grills: Mine is chrome but I think I like the painted look. Granted I could probably work mine over to paint it but are there paintable ones out there?

Rear Bumper: I've seen two Rams now with painted rear bumper with Dual exhaust cutout (or bumps in the bottom) Are these a factory bumper? I like that look. Don't think I've seen aftermarket ones like this yet....but I'm still just getting started looking at things.

Front Bumper: Similar to the grill I like the painted look. Mine has the lower half chrome. This I see lots of options out their for aftermarket ones. But I've seen a few on the street that look factory with painted bumpers. I've seen several threads on the Sport bumpers so I'm assuming that's the factory painted one.

Taillights: My rear tail lights are not smooth but have two round bump outs. I've not seen any otheres like these, yet. Are these factory? I'd post a pic but the phone is craping out and too lazy to dig out the big dog camera right now.

Thanks for the replies and education for the somewhat newbie to Rams.

You can get grille shells that you can paint or plenty of people paint their own, rear bumper, may as well paint it too, the ones with the exhaust cut outs are 09 and up, not sure if they'll fit a 3g. For the front, try and find someone selling a sport bumper cover, they look better anyway.

There are some rams before 09 that had a bumper with two bumps and the exhaust out the back. It was on the GTX package, but that was basically a cover over the regular bumper. You are better off buying the paintable grill for the front.....getting paint to adhere properly to the plastic chome that you have is difficult.

Yes your tail lights are oem. In 07 and 08 that was the oem design. If you prefer the smooth there are aftermarket lights you can buy that are basically plug and play......to put an 06 oem tail light on your truck you have to modify the harness

Agree with all this...the best way to do your grill if your going to paint it is to have it professionally sand blasted and painted/powder coated at your local body shop

Thanks for the replies.

I actually like the taillights just hadn't see any like them...until today I say another truck with them.

Did a quick local search and found some prospects for a painted grill so that should be straight foward.

Then to decide what to do with the bumpers.

the sport bumper requires more than just a bumper cover. it needs the braces and what not behind the cover as well.

On the 02-05 you have to really cut up the chrome bumper to get the sport cover to work...i read that on 06-08 it is much easier vs buying all the support stuff

Just paint what you want painted.
handles/mirrors/bumpers/grill shells/headlight housings/tail lights.

Stock
Common 02-05 SLT setup



Painted Roll pan/Handles/Mirrors/Grille Shell/SS bumper/Tail Lights

SLT-8's lookin Good Daniel. Mike the Options are endless.

I had my pipes exiting the sides and then switched to out the rear with a different tip rather than the round.

Thanks. I sometimes miss being blue.

If you could have mixed some of that blue in with the satin black look you got now it be sick. The hemi orange and satin black theme you got going now is pretty Damn nice too though.

She going under again soon. Black paint never again lol.