Front Bumpers

This is a solid bumper, lights are bright, looks better than photos. It is American made (talking about the Hooke Road bumper). There are reviews of other China made bumpers mixed in on here that look the same, so don't get confused. It bolted right up, no issues. Winch bolted right on. The only issue I can mention is the instructions are not great. The Skid Plate has two brackets, doesn't say which is left or right, but it does matter. I put them on the wrong side at first and had to switch them. It also came with two oval plates that it didn't explain. Those are for the underside of the Bull Bar to keep the bolts from pulling through. I doubt that would happen anyway, the bolts would probably break before they pulled through the bumper. The lights can wire directly to the fog light wires if you have them, but there is some wire modification that needs to be done. There are 4 lights to wire up on the bumper, and only two fog light wires. This will handle the load just fine, as the stock fog lights are 55 Amps, and these are only 18 Amps each. It would be nice if they supplied a splitter that directly plugs into the fog lights, but the lights on the bumper only have wires with no connector, so that has to be wired up. I picked up some connector from O'Reilly's, but that is so I can unplug the wires if I want to remove the bumper for some reason, no need to be that fancy with it.

Installation was a breeze. With just a few common tools this fit my 2013 JKU like a glove. I like the look, and construction should stand up to the trails and rock climbing. Shipping container quality left something to be desired and the item arrived with visible defects to the coating and a minor dent. I contacted the company right away. After I sent the photos they requested, within two days I was refunded the cost it's going to take to have it stripped and new coating applied. While VERY bright the quality of the lights is low and they barf bright light everywhere instead of the specifically-applied spot beam of the factory fog lights. Bang for the buck can't be beat, however. Overall, very satisfied with this product.

So I read the reviews before buying just as everyone does. I went ahead and bought it for my wife's birthday. I installed it in 2 hours it fits great. No issues at all. The bumper just looks great and wife is very happy with it. The lights are very bright and I connected them to the factory fog lights. So they work with the jeeps fog light switch. There was nothing complicated about this proflduct.

This is a rock solid piece. It bolted perfectly on my '15 Sahara Unlimited. It is much more open than the stock from underneath, so tightening the nuts and bolts and doing the wiring is super easy. I installed everything with no directions because I didn't think there were any. I did find them when I was breaking down the boxes. The bumper is secured in the box with spray foam that sticks to the box. The center piece of foam was covering the directions taped to the top of the box, so tear that foam piece off to find the directions. A couple of notes when installing: 1. Put the bolts for the bull bar and the fourth bolts to hold the bumper in, and then remove them, before installing the parts. I didn't do that at first. They didn't go in as easily as I expected, and I thought I was cross-threading them. It seems that some of the coating material gets on the threads making them a little tight. Putting the bolts in and removing them clears the gunk out, and they go in easily during the install so you aren't afraid that you are cross-threading them. 2. Maybe the directions address this, but I didn't have them. You have to use a 10 mm box wrench to put in the lower bolt on the bull bar. A ratchet won't fit in the space-at least mine didn't. 3. My state requires a front license plate. Since I had the winch, I have the piece that bolts onto the bumper over the opening for the cable. I was able to loosen that, slide the plate underneath it, and tighten it down to secure the plate. If you just have the bumper, without the winch, there are holes there that you could attach the plate. The holes on my plate didn't match up with them, so I would have had to drill new holes in the plate. The holes on the bumper are big, so I would drill a similar size hole and use that size nut and bolt to secure it. Now the one deficiency. There is only about a 9" wire on each of the four lights. Since they have to be spliced into the existing wiring, that's not long enough to be able to remove the bumper without undoing the splice and taking off the tape, etc. each time. The aftermarket LED headlights and fog lights that I had on before came with a quick connect to attach to the existing foglight wiring. I soldered about 12" of wire to each. That gives enough, I think, to be able to remove the bumper without disconnecting all the wiring. Of course if you need to move the bumper out of the way after removing it, that won't help. It would be nice if the bumper came with some kind of quick connect to address this. Overall, I'm very happy with this. I plan on 3D designing and printing housings to hold the LED foglights with halo lights that I had to remove. The bumper comes with the brackets to add a light bar. I plan on using those to reattach those foglights. If I get that done, I'll add the link to the housing files, and pictures of the final look, in case anyone wants to do the same.

The front bumper arrived earlier than stated (which was a plus). Upon inspection it was obvious that the bumper had been returned. The nylon strapping securing the box had been cut and then retaped. The foam packing had been broken when the parts had been removed the first time. I found that the item had been returned because the threading on one side of the Bull Bar was messed up. Someone had attempted to screw the bolts in to the Bull Bar but were not successful. The bumper was never removed from the plastic covering. I decided to rethread the Bull Bar instead of returning the bumper. Once the threads were clean, assembly was a breeze. I was able to replace the factory bumper with the new one by myself and fairly quickly. The installed bumper looks great ! I would highly recommend this bumper !

Awesome Quality, Awesome look

First, the skid bumper I purchased along with this bumper came with a broken weld. Now, one of the lights on the bumper has water intrusion and is shorting out. The seller agree to send another, but I needed to pay the $25 in shipping since the 6-month warranty expired. Really, exterior lights on a bumper leak after 6 months? Demonstrates the quality you get with any of their products.