Reviews for Rugged Ridge Arcus Bumper for 18-23 Jeep Wrangler JL & Gladiator JT
Great looking stubby bumper. Not a hard install but you definitely need a second set of hands for the final few steps.
Great value, easy install, great look.
Fantastic bumper! Easiest to install if you have a buddy around, but is manageable with one person. Install only took a couple hours, and a good note is that if you are installing a winch at the same time, you will want to either leave the front grille off, and install the winch at the same time, OR don't tighten the bolts going to the frame to leave room for the winch placement.
Installed this bumper on my 2019 Sport JL. Great quality bumper, I love the design. It would had been a lot easier to install if I had a second pair of hands with me. The Sport fog lights work very nicely with this bumper. I got a Smittybuilt X2O winch for it... and everything looks great. I also recommend the Quadratec Aluminum Modular Front Sway Bar Skid Plate which goes very nicely with this bumper.
Order arrived on-time and was well packaged. Coating on the recovery hooks was already flaking and requires touch up. Overall decent fit on a 21’ JLURD and re-used factory LEDs.
Bumper coating requires an improvement
Looks great, nice and compact and the tow hooks are great in form and function. I did however have a figment issue. The fog lift bracket, which incidentally is also the back bolt plate, did not fit up against my frame close enough and nearly had me cross thread the bolts. I had to take a grinder to the corners about 1/4” so it would sit close enough to the frame to thread correctly.
Great Bumper overall. Love the look! Unfortunately took me a little bit longer than it should have - some words of wisdom. If you get the bull bar, Get yourself a 16mm Stubby Ratcheting Wrench - you need it!
Also, paired it with XRC Gen3 with the control box on the side instead of center - will say I barely have enough room to get the control plug in, so either mount it in the center or go with the Gen 2.
The LED Fogs from the Rubicon will fit this bumper. Understand LED with other trims may not.
Pairing it with the RR HD Rear as I don't like the Arcus rear..
I have to agree with another reviewer that it would have been nice to have some covers for the rear of the fog lights. Potential to get water and mud on the contacts of the wiring.
The bumper looks great! Although they should have tack welded the tow hooks to the bumper shell/body... Because you won't need 9 people to line everything up because it would be so cumbersome and heavy. Don't do what I say below and you better by pizza and invite a lot of people. Solution use. (liquid nails fuze it) and glue / weld the tow hooks to the bumper shell wait six hours then install bumper by yourself. And keep all the pizza for yourself. Once again do what I say above. And you won't be frustrated.
Great bumper for the money. The winch plate is a bit tighter then needed especially for my smittybilt x20 winch. The install was a bit of a pain and the instructions tell you to move forward when you should do another step first. Also wish the hooks were welded to the face plate as it added a bit of wiggling to the install.
When finally on though it looks fantastic. Very happy with end result...