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Block out plate for stubby rubicon steel bumper?

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Hello!

Just installed a stubby rubicon steel bumper today. Noticing this large open area behind the fog light.

Does any company make block out plates for this area?

Thanks!
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Hello!

Just installed a stubby rubicon steel bumper today. Noticing this large open area behind the fog light.

Does any company make block out plates for this area?

Thanks!
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I heard of people making some from plexi. I would like to do this as well.
 

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I just did one for a winch opening. I would mock it in cardboard and get it perfect. Get a piece of aluminum and use a metal blade in a jigsaw. Sand the burrs off the edges. Give it a few coats of bumper black and you’ll be in business. Secure it with what looks like 2 machine screws and nuts.

Like this. But much smaller. And for a bumper end cap…
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If someone sold 'em, I'd be looking to buy.

I don't like the exposure of the backside of the fog lights...
.........yet the factory does that, so..........

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As suggested make a cardboard template then transfer it to aluminum and cut with a jigsaw, I made some plates for aux backup lights using this method and .125 aluminum very easy to work with.

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