Just ordered this knock off steel bumper

[smlobx]

Did you guys who have it need to purchase parking light rings to get it to fit (with the led ones)?

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[Empty Pockets]

I’m not sure what you are referring to as “parking light rings”. If you are referring to the fog lights, mine came with LED lights installed.

 

[Gregj]

Did you guys who have it need to purchase parking light rings to get it to fit (with the led ones)?

If you have plastic bumper fog lights you will need the adapter to install them. The steel bumper fog lights just bolt in. I used this adapter to put plastic bumper fog lights in.
Fog light adapter
You may have to grind the radius on the adapter to get the fog light to fit against it. You will also have to cut off the tabs on the opposite side of the fog light, the plastic bumper version has mounting tabs on both sides.
Gregj

 

[ShadowsPapa]

You will also have to cut off the tabs on the opposite side of the fog light, the plastic bumper version has mounting tabs on both sides.

I didn't have to. No messing with the lights themselves at all. The tabs on the other side were not in the way.

I have a pair of the amazon adapters - didn't fit worth a shit. They put the lights too deep. (I have pictures comparing somewhere). So I used the adapters that came with the steel bumper and those worked fine (but they got rusty fast)

Mounting depth is wrong on the Amazon adapters I bought so I tossed them onto a shelf of extra crap I don't know what to do with. May just toss them.

 

[MikeNH]

The chinese are getting so good they can turn a wrecked JK into a new JL!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The chinese are getting so good they can turn a wrecked JK into a new JL!

That's the ad of the decade right there.

 

[Tim Allan]

 

[smlobx]

^^^
How was the install?
Can you provide any more detailed pictures?
How was the skid plate install?
Thanks and congrats!

 

[agoldxj]

Bought one for my wife’s Jeep, she ended up not liking it so I put it on my Mojave. It’s been about 9 months here in PA and all the bolts lost their paint and there’s rust starting to come through the finish. I know they’re cheap but I figured I’d get a least a year out of it. Currently shopping for something to change up the look.

 

[KrispyKotex]

Will the skid plate from the plastic bumper attach to this, or does this bumper come with one? Also, looking at the Amazon ad pics, I see it includes the small trim piece that sits between the plastic bumper and grill. Can you verify please? I’m on the hunt for a Mopar steel, but this looks interesting.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Will the skid plate from the plastic bumper attach to this, or does this bumper come with one? Also, looking at the Amazon ad pics, I see it includes the small trim piece that sits between the plastic bumper and grill. Can you verify please? I’m on the hunt for a Mopar steel, but this looks interesting.

IF it's plastic, that's an air dam, not a skid plate, and no, not at all.
IF it is a Rubicon with plastic bumper and skid plate - sort of.
The bumpers don't come with a skid plate. You'll have to buy that and the lower brackets to attach it to the frame on the bottom of the skid plate.

 

[Tim Allan]

Skid plate needs to be cut up to fit. See earlier post.

She's heavy...we will see how I like it through WV winters. I got the bumper and winch plate mounted by myself.

 

[CavFab_MFG]

For all of you looking at bumpers like this, what line of work are you in?

 

[brsnow2585]

'22 gladiator, with the factory steel bumper and Badlands winch, I did have to take about an inch off the engagement handle. It was the bumper cutout, I've got a bar too. Adding the winch plate took some persuasion....... The factory steel bumpers aren't very thick metal, I bumped a wood power pole turning around and got a bend, it came out really easy with a rubber hammer.

 

[jav_eee]

For all of you looking at bumpers like this, what line of work are you in?

the line of work that prefers the stock steel bumper looks without the stock steel bumper price.

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