Warn Elite Series Front Bumpers

This bumper is the reason I am writing this review. I was cut off with not enough room by a guy moving between two Semi’s stopped in traffic as I was driving by in the HOV lane. No where to go and no time to decrease my speed enough to avoid. This bumper saved our lives though my brand new JLUR of less than six months and one oil change didn’t make it. I am most grateful for my life and my sons. Per the collision folks assessment, again thank you for your excellent engineering folks, again I am most appreciative. I am working on my next bumper and Zein 12s Platinum winch for my now fifth Jeep and another JLUR now a 2019.

The main (4) each side mounting fasterners have (3) with weld-on tension head nuts for bolts and one a slot (I guess to handle fab tolerances) with a bolt and nut. The bolt that goes thru this slot was put on the upper, outboard fastener location. TOTALLY LAME! It is hard to get to and could have just as easily been the top, inboard faster that is REALLY EASY TO GET AT!! A case of the desiner either looking at the mirror image or never installed this himself. And the kit should have come with a wireing harness with factory male/female ends so all you had to do is connect them for the OEM fog lights in lieu of cutting and splicing which is totally a backyard hack give the poor crip type connectors which always fail given time. And overall it is not a good feeling to be cutting off brackets on your Jeep. And I can't stand a mix of imperial and metric fastners in an add-on kit. Why not just make them one or the other for crying out load. But once you get over that it's a pretty clean looking bumper for someone who does other things besides rock crawling with their rig.

living up in the 4000th foot level we get snow this is a good thing have with the warn remote winch I don't frezz my.. helping other's getting out

This is a heavy bumper. YOU WILL need help installing this in the form of a couple friends or in my case an ATV lift was the perfect helper. Take you time and be patient. I think Warn could learn a few things about technical instructions. The fog lights "wiring extension kit" is a complete joke. It contained two wires that are about 8 inches long, 4 crimp connectors and some plastic wire shielding. The only thing that was useful was the wire shielding. I took apart the existing wire harness and adjusted the locations that the wires Y'd apart and I was able to get the extra length I needed and the wires are still slack. I used the provided wire shielding to protect the newly exposed wiring. The bracket for relocating the vacuum canister barely fits in place with ZERO room to spare! I think they changed the relocation bracket at some point. I would have given a 5 if it were not for the poor instructions.

This winch bumper looks better on the rig than in the pictures. I mounted my old 9000xi with no major problems. The side braces had to be modified as well as having to procure some hardware would be my only complaints.