Hooke Road Rear Bumper(09-18 Dodge Ram 1500)

Installed on a 2014 Ram 1500 and was able to complete in just a couple hours by myself.

Item arrived on time. The packaging was mangled. Bumper inside had no damage. Everything needed to install was there. Bumper is pretty solid. It is not an extreme off road bumper but if you are looking to add clearance and nice steps to get up into bed of truck this will work great for you! Factory tow plug snapped in perfect and bumper aligned and fit nice. I did have to add a license plate light $7.99 from Orielly's. Overall took about 2hrs to install and wite by myself.. Pretty happy with it. We will see how it holds up?

Firstly, the bumper was pretty nice. However, the installation did not go well at all. The mounting holes did not line up at all. I had to beat the mounting brackets with a large hammer to get them to line up with the truck frame rails. Even the license plate holes were off almost an 1/8 of an inch. These are laser cut and pretty standard so should NOT be off at all. The MAIN gripe I have with this is the fact that there is nothing on the website or in the installation instructions that mention the electrical connections. The lights have flying leads and the license plate light has a weird flat connector I have never seen before. Would it kill them to add a blurb on the website or, maybe, offer harnesses to connect the lights to the truck. I tried to install the bumper but did not have the electrical components to make the connections so had to put it off to another date. Really! Put a sentence on your website so people are prepared when they want to install your product.

I love the looks of this bumper and how solid it feels. I do have a few things to comment on, which the designers may want to consider. There are some fitment issues with the factory bumper mounts. Where the bumper brackets could be spaced out a little more so you don't have to fight the pins that line it up. The sides of the bumper that mount to the main bumper have a little alignment issues. The light for the license plate has a little pin connector that us useless and won't plug into the factory harness. A couple 1/4 inch bolts and nuts for the license plate would also be nice, since the old license plate screws no longer fit.

Awesome Bumper , Fast Shipping, perfect Fit about an hour too install with a helper
Just need to wire the backup lights
The plate light was damaged on arrival and customer service is Fantastic and sending me a replacement
Thank you for Great products!!