3rd Gen REAR Bumper Thread (Feb 2024 Update)

Installing a no cut bumper I trust my self to do it

Cutting the bedside I would want to have a pro do it.

 

You are the PRO. Save yourself the money bro. + you learn your truck.

 

Measure twice, cut once.

Laser levels help a lot too.

My SOS Concepts HC should be done in a few weeks.

 

What’s everyone doing with the wires for the BSM after installing a HC rear bumper?

 

Wrapped the connectors up tight in electrical tape and zip-tied them out of the way.

 

Has anyone purchased from Aventuron online? They carry CBI and offer free shipping... crossing my fingers it's legit.

 

Have you tried tacomabeast? Pretty legit. I ordered things from rogue offroad and free shipping. I think most vendors can do that

 

Try @Truck Brigade

Free shipping on a lot of items and no tax collected. I ordered an RCI bumper from them and it arrived 2 weeks from order. Their customer service has been top notch.

https://www.truckbrigade.com/cbi-offroad-fabrication

 

anyone ever line x’d the rear bumper caps???? or even color matched them (more or less)?

 

Did both, color matched a few days after I brought the truck home. Then later got them raptor lined when my buddy was getting his F-150 bed lined. Both options suck ass for wheeling, I eventually tossed them after they got beat to shit from the trails, replaced with an ARB Rear Summit Bumper. Not the sexy pick, looks stock, but all steel.

 

the line x didn’t protect the plastic like all the claims i read about it? hell i saw that vid with an egg coated with it drop off a building and it was fine.... i figured that on our plastic bumpers would be a nice cheaper option to all steel, but no?

 

Raptor Liner wasn’t saving my plastic bumper from getting ripped off by rocks on departure. My best guess being raptor lined is if I never wheeled my truck, it may have done a good job against rock chips and little stuff of that nature. Really couldn’t say for sure, because the following weekend is when it got ripped off.

 

I can’t seem to find a BMS compatible rear bumper on C4’s site, is there a different mfg that makes the one shown on the first page or something?

 

No one makes a BSM compatible bumper. C4 had one for a while, but due to low demand and continued BSM calibration issues, it was discontinued.

 

Like others have said, Line x isn’t going to protect plastic from getting torn off. The plastic stock bumper you can literally pull off in pieces, it’s shit. One of my end caps was torn off backing into some bushes (foliage) and that’s when I knew it had to go. The first mod I did was get a rear metal bumper.

 

Even if you fudge it a little you can always get that black trim to go over it and smooth it out.

 

Thanks to all here at TW for answering questions, sending pics about rear bumpers. I ended up going with a Fab Four Premium, no sensor, no pics to post yet, rain or snow after I installed. But I wanted to share what I did on my install. Taking off that crappy stock bumper was easy, put the FF on and couldn't level my ends to each other. Then I remembered that metal bracket right in the middle on the hitch the stock bumper mounted to with the 2 8mm bolts, it was just a little off level, but when you run that out to the ends it of course magnifies that. The new FF bumper was resting on that & I didn't want to lift it up to even it out because I'm getting closer to the tailgate when it's opened. So I cut that bracket out, there's just about 2" at each end, with my sawzall and painted the cut areas. I didn't want to remove the bumper, I put it on by myself & didn't want to take a chance on pushing my luck banging it into the truck or dropping it. Lowered the bumper to even it out, tightened all the bolts up again, did a test to see if it would shift any by hooking up to the shackles & pulling at a down angle, held tight. Figured if it moved I'd weld that bracket at the new location to meet up with the bumper. Might come across this on Fab Four bumpers, but wanted to give buyers a heads up. I put some pics to show where the area is I'm talking about & the part I cut out.

 

does no one have an actual pic of the fab four vengeance rear bumper on a 3rd gen???? i’ve searched and got nothing but the generic one from the company site

 

Really liking the mob town high clearance bumper! Had to relocate the camera to the license plate. I’m Planing on moving up to the tire swing since the field of view is terrible.

 

do you still have the same tow capacity rating as stock with the hidden hitch rear bumpers??


any others out there besides RCI as far as options i should look into (that support the parking sensors)?