CBI Rear Bumper PSA/Horror Story

[TonyBravo]

I chose Expedition One rear bumper over this option almost exclusively because of the latching system. Sucks to see that this happened to you.

 

[DannyLlama]

I've actually heard that several times also (despite Toyota using their components for the Pro suspension).

What's your story with them?

You have time and a 6 pack? lol

Had so many issues in the beginning, just absolutely horrid.

Short story, they didn't test fit their coil overs on the limited, hit the sway bar.
After 100 emails and escalations, they fixed the issue (for the most part).
Had issues with rears, hate them with a passion and will be replacing them first chance i get.

They do ride nice, i will just never ever ever deal with them again, not on a truck , not on a bike, not for free lol...

Toyota's deal with them i'm sure is purely politics and wont last forever.

 

[outlier]

I suppose I’ll be scratching CBI off the list for any future consideration.


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[AZ Craig]

You have time and a 6 pack? lol

Had so many issues in the beginning, just absolutely horrid.

Short story, they didn't test fit their coil overs on the limited, hit the sway bar.
After 100 emails and escalations, they fixed the issue (for the most part).
Had issues with rears, hate them with a passion and will be replacing them first chance i get.

They do ride nice, i will just never ever ever deal with them again, not on a truck , not on a bike, not for free lol...

Toyota's deal with them i'm sure is purely politics and wont last forever.

Gotcha. Highly unlikely I'd stay with Fox down the road, but figure these should do the trick for the first 75K miles or so at least.

 

[oulaw]

After something like that, I commend you for having the balls to engage again with a shop that isn’t within choking distance.

Sorry to hear about the string of bad experiences. It sounds like you have a bad ass rig despite the bs.

Thnx I literally got a FB message about pelfrey then paid for the CBI bumpers a few days later. I planned on going to FJ Summit then the Pelfrey issue hit me then cash from the build the next year and this year it was cancelled for he Rona. Next year I may have to bring a couple Kegs to FJ.

 

[oulaw]

Sorry you had a poor experience with your latch. I know some other folks have broken latches in the past as well. I've been pretty lucky since I have thousands of hard off road miles on my rear CBI bumper and have yet to break a latch. Im also running A LOT more weight on my swingarms than most since i have a bike rack and bike on there most of the time. In addition to spare fuel, Hi LIft, Propane tank, spare tire bag etc. I wonder if it may be related to the amount of tension you set on that u bolt during installation?

I had one shop install everything on my rig and they adjusted the latch many times since it was installed as the build went on. Always the same problems over and over. IMO there should be a backstop for the left swingarm like there is for the right and/or better latch system. If I was the only one I could your point but there are multiple people on T4R and on the 4runner FB page as well with this issue.

 

[oulaw]

Sorry you had a poor experience with your latch. I know some other folks have broken latches in the past as well. I've been pretty lucky since I have thousands of hard off road miles on my rear CBI bumper and have yet to break a latch. Im also running A LOT more weight on my swingarms than most since i have a bike rack and bike on there most of the time. In addition to spare fuel, Hi LIft, Propane tank, spare tire bag etc. I wonder if it may be related to the amount of tension you set on that u bolt during installation?

That is a hell of alot more punishment than mine saw you lucked out or I must have gotten one of the U bolts from a bad batch from China (says in Trump voice).

 

[JSparky]

Lame. You can fab your own and make them stronger. Not a 4Runner but you get the idea. Grade 8 bolts and a piece of aluminum stock drilled out.

 

[Dinosaur Overland]

Thanks for sharing this and making us aware of the problem.