Normal. They are swamped. My bumper took four months.

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My AOR tube bumper took about 10-11 weeks from the date I ordered it to the time it was at my door. I had read about the long lead times so I just figured it would take awhile.

I love mine, but you’ll definitely need to be patient


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How did you paint behind that plate piece with the holes? and did you paint the whole "interior" yaknow etc? did you paint the brace piece that goes on the frame first? I got the same plate bumper and need to prep/paint it. did you sand it down a bit to prep it? also there are burrs from their hole-cutting process, thinking i might have to sahve them off...

Clean it up as you see fit, give the whole bumper a wipe down with acetone or similar. Prime with metal etch primer. Paint everything while it’s off the truck. Just get behind the plate as best you can, it wasn’t easy for sure but try to cover as much bare metal as you possibly can inside and out.. drips don’t matter as much where you can’t see them.

I got the addicted off-road tube front bumper last summer. I mean absolutely no disrespect to the non rust belt members on the forum but they just don't get it when it comes to rust. if you can't epoxy coat it in the rust belt it's totally rusted to nuggets in 12 months. the stuff they put on the roads here is like driving you truck down the beach right @ waters edge every day 2x times and not being able to clean it off for 3 months. anything that is unprotected will be destroyed in no time at all.

I sand blasted and cleaned with lacquer thinner then shot it with 2x coats of epoxy DTM rust seal, then 1 top coat of chassis paint.

I also was pissed off about the unpaintable spot and shot a ton up and inside and got ugly runs... and was not able to get 100% coverage... so.... I'm going to cut the front plate out, add some captive nuts so I can then paint and bolt the plate back on after it's all painted. I was convinced I could get some epoxy up into that area but... it's difficult.

other than that it's a nice bumper and well made. I also agree it had some sharp spots that should have never made it out the door. I went over mine with a grinder/flappy disc and smoothed some things out.

Been running the AOR Plate it a solid bumper like it, painter no problem spraying backside of dimpled plate did say it took some tricks.