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ARB test fitted a Navara rear bumper on my 07 Frontier recently, so here's the report and images.
The bumper installed without issues. Just a small amount of weld needed to be removed on the upper, outside corners of both frame rails, and as as with anything with tight tolerances it took a little persuasion with with a hammer and block of wood to get it the last half inch. The bumper mounts with all six threaded inserts on both sides as used with our class IV receiver and bumper. It is rated at 6600# with a tongue weight of 660#.
There is a rear filler panel kit sold separately to fill the area above the bumper previously covered with the stock bumper. This filler panel is designed for an Australian truck, and took a few modifications to adapt it to my truck. We needed to drill another set of holes in the filler panel to mount it, since the lower two mounting holes did not line up with anything we could attach to. The license plate holes are for their long, skinny license plates and the license plate light is designed to mount above. Our US plates are slightly taller than the filler panel, so I purchased two Hella side mount license plate lights and attached my rear plate with industrial strength Velcro rather than drilling holes through the license plate itself.
The tubes that wrap around under the rear fenders are structural. They're boxed and gusseted back into the frame of the bumper, and you should be able to literally jack the truck up from these tubes. A following post will show the structure photographed from below when I had the 5-bar diamond plate and filler panel removed.
Here's an image of the finished product, and I'll follow right away with a few other images.
Ed