Originally Posted by blue2016

Just finished putting the SSO rear bumper on this past weekend.

Originally Posted by mteolus

Let Jason Koertge know about this, maybe he'll reconsider his endorsement.

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Originally Posted by Soccer13

Cant see in this photo but did you opt for the camera relocation kit?

Originally Posted by comtn4x4

Yes I have the bracket C4 offers. It works very well and actually is very similar to stock. It's just below the red latch handle in the picture

Originally Posted by Soccer13

Nice! How hard was the wiring for it? I liked the idea of it but worried about removing the oem camera from its stock location and getting debris and other stuff stuck there

Originally Posted by TRD_Mike

I'll play ball here and give some info from my experiences, I will never buy another CBI product again!

Originally Posted by JSparky

There's a lot of good bumpers out there. I haven't seen them talked about much in this thread, and at the risk of repeating myself, I'll throw support behind 4x4 Labs. I understand that the OP doesn't like the looks of them, which is subjective, but from an objective standpoint they hit a lot of marks, so I'll discuss those for anyone else reading this.

Foremost, from what I've seen they are the highest clearance rear bumper and utilize an integrated receiver hitch that's flush with the bumper face. They also have very few moving parts, with the load spread across two pivots with a single clasp. They feature heavy gas struts in place of locking pins to keep them open, strong enough to keep the 37" tire on my cruiser open on a side slope. They also have a variety of carrier options, including a ladder, bike rack, hi-lift, fuel/water carriers, baskets, tables, antenna, etc. I'm a personal fan of how simplistic they are.

Anyways, no association, just used their stuff on 3x vehicles now and am a big fan of their functionality, strength, and clearance. The deck on their rear bumper is also large enough to be used for small tasks, like sandwich making etc.

Originally Posted by TRD_Mike

I'll play ball here and give some info from my experiences, I will never buy another CBI product again! My front bumper which was supposed to be complete and shipped to me between 8-10 weeks took almost 24 weeks but the 16th week mark they just kept saying soon and it was done and waiting on shipping then at 20 weeks they told me it was complete and being shipped finally at 22 weeks I was informed that now it is shipping. I received the bumper only to find it damaged and it was not damaged from shipping. The shipping crate and packaging was in perfect condition but underneath the foam and wrap that didn't have so much of a smudge on it, there were multiple gouges, scrapes, and scratches. I was missing parts along with finding plenty of powder coating discrepancies only to be told that's how its supposed to look when powder coated. Fast forward 2 weeks I finally get down to Expo east and my first order of business was to confront CBI which I did and I wanted their rear bumper at the time but was very hesitant. We came up with a "solution for the crap powder coat shipping issues and other things and I was assured on an 8-12 week shipping time max on the rear bumper so I ordered. Well, here we are week 15 and nothing. I was ignored for 3 weeks I was at one point again told my bumper was complete and ready to be shipped 2 weeks later told that my bumper was still in production and they had no idea when the completion date was or when it would ship or anything of the sort. So I emailed back and said I was going to cancel the order and the response I received was in not so many words ok cancel it if you'd like (as if they didn't give a shit to lose a customer because they don't). They did not try to do any sort of customer retention or any sort of customer service or figure out a solution so I did just that and I canceled my order and I have since ordered a C4 rear dual swing out. I am very happy with my choice and although I'm set back another 12 weeks I would rather wait longer and not sport and promote a CBI rear bumper and would rather use a C4 bumper which after a lot of research I think is a better product than the CBI bumper anyway!