ARB or Fab Fours?

Fab Fours does not make an awesome product the front and rear bumpers are overly heavy and have some serious design flaws. See my post above.

 

Not sure why anyone would want a fab four.. Its huge, you don't gain a better approach angle, it weighs twice as much as others, its ugly.. I'd rather keep the stock bumper before that honestly.

Look at Pelfreybilt, bruteforce fab, and relentless fab. They make the best bumpers in my opinion and they actually work really well

 

Further to my own post - my ARB was damaged worse than i initially thought, on both the left and right wings. The left, i was able to mostly straighten, but the right was seriously bent in, in the middle of the right wing. Purchased from 4wheelparts, they are making good on the damaged bumper, and are ordering in a replacement.

Subsequent to the installation of the bumper, I also had a Readylift spacer/AAL kit installed, along with Bilstein 4600 struts up front, with Bilstein 5100's installed on the rear. The truck suspension upgrade, handles the weight of the bumper perfectly.

I believe with the ARB bumper, this is with a winch installed. Without winch (I have no need for one, obviously) it's down around 115lbs or so.

For the rear, I have ordered a Fab Fours bumper to replace my now twice hit-tweaked stock rear bumper. No intention to order the separate tire gate - beyond your reported design flaws, it's only additional weight with no real purpose to me, when throwing the spare into the truck bed will do. When it shows up and is installed, I'll report my opinion on it.

 

My Fab Fours rear bumper, now installed.

Heavy, but did the install entirely myself. Good fit and finish. I am very happy with it as a more capable/hit-resistant replacement.