Reviews for Quadratec QRC Front Winch Ready Bumper for 18-24 Jeep Wrangler JL & Gladiator JT

Awesome bumper! It took me about and hour and a half to remove my old bumper and put this one on. Directions were super easy to follow and I couldn't be happier with the end result!

Great bumper. Easy install although i did have to widen the frame mounting holes on
the left side of the jeep to get one bolt started. Other than that everything fit perfect
and looks great.

Fit and finish are excellent in my opinion. It looks awesome on my 2018 JLU Sport and the factory halogen fog lights are fully supported. Used the fog light wiring harness as well with no issues. Getting the old bumper off (and heading to the junk yard) was no problem.

A few install tips: There are 3 holes for mounting the fog lights. On the side that uses two screws, the supplied screws went right in no problem. Trying to put the screw in the single hole side wasn't going to happen in this universe just because of where it is located. Not enough room to work with. After beating my brains out for an hour I finally settled on a heavy zip tie. The light is nice and secure.

Where there were eight bolts attached to my OEM bumper; on this new bumper there are 4 bolts attached to the bumper on the inside of where the frame rails are. On the outside there are 4 separate bolts you will install on the outside of the frame rails.
Where others have mentioned difficulty lining up the bolts to place the bumper on; another tip here. There is a side mounting place on each side where the bolts go into the holes. So four all together. Loosen those up and they will easily slide back and off. Easy to see how to reinstall. You only have to loosen the bolts enough for them to slide back. Anyways, take those off and the bumper should easily slide on. I'm almost 63 and disabled and I was able to do this by myself. I could not get everything lined up before noticing and removing the side brackets. Before installing the four bolts into the outer sides of frame rails and into the bumper, put the side brackets back on and tighten. You can use your finger in one hole to ensure they are lined up. They will slide right over the bumper bolts on the inside frame rails. Easy day, no drilling required.

Lastly, at the end of the install manual it says to install your winch. I bought a Smittybilt XRC winch (the one on sale). There was absolutely no way this winch was going to be properly installed with the bumper already on the Jeep. The winch installation manual is a joke but that's another review. I had to take the bumper off. Ten minutes after removing the bumper, the winch was properly secured. One 185 pound deadlift later the whole works was back on my Jeep. So those items were major points of frustration so if you're reading this you most likely won't suffer the same frustrations and will have a simple install. This is my first Jeep and mine is the 2018 Wrangler JL Unlmited Sport. So while I may be a rookie here, at the end of the day, I'm a little wiser and hopefully I can help someone else out. I absolutely LOVE the look of this bumper and it is totally solid!

I like it! The steel is thick and sturdy. I was able to install it by myself. The toughest part was picking it up and sliding it onto the jeep by myself. at first I thought it wouldn't go on or a bolt hole would need to be widened but I got it to go on with some wiggling. I got the full width one because I like the extra safety and because after you watch the overlap crash test on youtube you might not want a stubby bumper even if they look cooler. I got this bumper in 12 hours from clicking purchase with free shipping! so cool.

This is our 1st wrangler. We wanted to start with easy addon's. Chose this bumper with a Smittybilt X20 comp 10k. Also added the flood light bar and 2 3 in. Cube spot lights. It was almost problem free, expect trying to line up bolts on bumper. The jeep bumper holes were not perfectly round and needed to be redrilled. Installation took about 5 hours for everything. Well worth it. Great looking seat up at a great price.

This bumper feels extremely solid and is exactly what I wanted. The brush bar looks great and feels as rigid as the bumper itself, like you could pick the Jeep up with it. I love that it incorporates the OE fog lamps.

Four stars instead of five because it takes some finesse to install it: The fog lamp brackets have threaded holes which is great, but the threads are painted and too gummed up to use. I drilled them out and put on a nut using the included hardware, not a big deal. More annoyingly, though, the pre-drilled holes for the winch are just unrealistically close to the grille. I drilled new holes 1" further forward and it worked out great for a Badland 12k lb winch. Access to the winch bolts is pretty tight and will definitely have you swearing.

My brother and I mounted this bumper on my 2025 Gladiator. It appeared to be very well made, heavy and cleanly welded. The only difficult part was mounting the fog lights. I have very large hands and placing the nuts under the light frames was difficult. It took a lot of time. I would suggest using a self tapping bolt instead. I would also suggest loosening the 4 bumper mounts on the frame. It makes lining up the bumper studs and bolts easier.

Overall, great bumper. Solid build and looks great. My only issues were fog light install and rear winch mounting bolt access. With the fog lights, the powder coating caused issues with installing the Rubicon foglight bracket in the pre-threaded holes. Secondly with the foglight install, the outermost mounting locations are positions too close to the sidewalls and nearly impossible to get fingers and tools in to install and secure. Lastly, due to the weight, I installed the winch after installing the bumper. The front mounting holes are easy to access, but the rear holes are completely blind and the access for hands and tools to the rear mounting is tight. Otherwise, the overall install is straight forward and easy.

Love the bumper looks great and is built very well. The only complaint I have is mounting the fog lights. The screws & nuts are tiny and no room to get your hand in there, plus the screw hole threads had paint in them and they only give a tiny Allan key to use

First I have to say I am extremely happy with this bumper. Good quality, welds are well done, very nice look.
However, things that made it difficult: the pre-drilled holes were not plugged during powder coat painting so it was difficult to place many of the screws.
Jeep factory did not fully drill one hole on the bumper attachment plates so we had to drill out one.
The headlight mounts fit my JL fog lights well, but the screws on the exterior side were almost impossible to place because of the angle and inside edge of the bumper.
Lastly, I purchased the Warn Zeon 10-S winch to go with, however it does not fit. Only the Warn Platinum Zeon winch was listed as not compatible. We did make it fit but we had to do major cuts to the bumper and to my jeep front bumper attachment plates.
Entire job took at least 8 hours removing factory bumper and fog lights, placing QRC bumper, drilling, burring, cutting, filing, painting, and attaching winch.