Wiggum

I guess what I was thinking about, more than anything else is ... if it were me who came up with that bumper design, while working at ADD ... and of course, I love my design I came up with ... I'd want to have the ability to produce and sell "my" design at my new company.

It's not so much a matter of coming up with something new/different/better ... it's a matter of my feeling like I own the design since I came up with it, even if it is technically owned by the company who I was working for/with when I developed the design.

but yet, I agree ... as a designer, just keep the pencil sharp and come up with the next great thing ...

REGCABMAN

That is a completely valid point. However we don't know what agreement ADD had with its employees. I have worked for companies that require agreements signed before I could start working. They basically state that anything I design/Build while being paid by the company would be sole property of the company and I would be sued if I shared the design with competition or tired to compete myself. Sometimes it gets a bit extreme but they are paying you to design for the company and not your self.

Wiggum

Yep ... I know exactly what you mean. I'm an architect and contractor ... and while working for any of those companies, the designs we came up with were not our own property ... they were, and always will be property of the company. Colleges/Universities do this all the time too ... they hire you to do lab work, research, etc. and all your work is theirs, not yours ... that's the trade off ... they pay you, and you provide them your intellectual knowledge in return.

That said, I was just expressing that as the one who may have come up with the design for the bumper ... and depending on how the company decided to split up ... that there may be a valid reason - even if only in the mind of the original designer - that they can/should be able to use that design on their own.

For all we know, there's no copyright type protection on the work they did together at ADD.

Honestly though, I don't care about the actual bumper, or whatever legal arrangements exist or don't exist between ADD and LEX. I just find these type situations interesting, and was throwing it out for thought so everyone could see there may very well be another legit side to the while split, and how may or may not really be a copycat ...

sigma pi

Yes IP belongs to the company that you were working for.


So why make a knock off, that's what I want to know. Why not just make original designs?

Pecasthecat11

Regardless of whether it is a copy or not I think it looks good OP and I agree with some of the other fellows here keep it white but do take off the lex panel. Post pics when you get the rest.

WTF150

Why not just save the $$ and take a hole saw to your factory bumper?

NastyFFX4

iTrader: (1)

I like it but I don't like the different size holes, not my truck either though lol. I want to get one without holes at all tbh. I'm not sure what's up with all all of the hate though. I'm glad it has seems to of calmed down now.

pmpski_1

First of all, I absolutely love the look of the stock FX4. Period.


However, it's not always about fashion. Sometimes it's function too. Me, I needed more lighting than stock. And a winch mount. And I wanted something a little tougher when bumping into things off road - it's gonna happen whether I want it too or not. I could have worked with the stock setup to make all of this happen, but I did like the look of the ADD venom front bumper, so that's what I ended up with. And I'm extremely happy with it. I have both function and looks IMO.


Now I'm thinking about adding the rear bumper, that's why I came upon this thread. I can say I'm not a fan of the looks, but there is the functionality of the bumper to consider, impact absorbing arguments aside.


It provides a place to mount lights, which is why I'm interested. With all the holes, I can think of other uses as well, mostly around providing tie down points or strapping things to the bumper.


Good to see all the opinions here. I know I have mine and provided them freely on things I think are ugly too

hms

I'd like to see what you did what the rest of the truck, just the bumper by itself as an only mod would just seem out of place IMO.