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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BIRDMAN" data-source="post: 148492" data-attributes="member: 18">i debated a little myself if I wanted the moly or not. i hashed it out with tim a few times on the phone. i just figured it was "the way to go" after reading several threads on the topic. the breakthrough for me came when i realized - if you hit something hard enough with a mild steel bumper to the point where you think moly would have made a difference then you have bigger problems than the type of tubing your bumper is made of. the quality of the welds will also play a huge role in how the bumper withstands an impact and from what i can tell Tim is #1 in that dept.nobody wants to crash their truck and their new bumper but honestly if you slam in to a rock wall doing 55 it's gonna crush any bumper mild or moly. and you're gonna have all sorts of destruction aside from the bumper its self. in reality an impact capable of folding a mild steel bumper would either fold a moly bumper or at least mess it up to the point where it's not repairable. either way you're out a bumper, probably some frame damage, body work and maybe some suspension damage.if comparing the stock bumper(which nobody has ever complained about) to even mild steel the strength is leaps and bounds better in the aftermarket application.</blockquote>

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