J,
Just checked mine and they are in place, could you have knocked them out while holding the hood or leaning over the fender during the lighting bracket installation?
I think that's got to be it 'dawg. I searched around the shop and did find the upper bumper, but the lower is MIA. I just can't see how they would have fallen out on their own, so I must have knocked them without realizing it... or they did fall out and were captured until I opened the hood here. Not sure which.
Fender was pulled off and repaired by dealer because of transport damage most likely and the low bucks paint shop helper forgot them. Be glad your paint is white and not hard to match. If that was a Tux Black I would say you would see it right off.
We had a 2011 Rap show up with some hood bumpers missing. The paint/exterior was pretty rough (all over) when it showed up, it also spent several "questionable" months in "transit".... Would not surprise me if BDRAG's right.
I suppose that's a possibility but I consider it very unlikely. I special ordered the truck back in '09, and waited 6 months for it. I tracked it daily as it was built, as it left the plant and was on the train. It showed up to the dealer in the morning and I was driving it home that night.
I think the lower bumper was either forgotten at the factory, or I bumped it and didn't realize it. Given that I found the upper on the shop floor, and after having now put back the upper and replaced the lower and have seen how easily they slip in and out of their mount, I think the latter is most likely.
Speaking of which, here's the part number for the lower:
9L3Z-16758-E @ $4.96ea, same PN for either side
I don't have a part number for the upper since I found and reused mine.
