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

Very sturdy bumper. I have a front mounted receiver hitch so I had to modify the bumper to except it. There goes the warranty. The winch was very difficult to mount as there was not a lot of room to get to the mounting bolts. The bumper mounted very well. Once the winch was mounted it was very difficult to get the grill back on. Matter of fact now that I got it on getting the grill off is impossible. It needs another 1/2 to 3/4 inch to make it work. I will have to loosen the bumper bolts somewhat to get the grill off.

-Welds & cut Finish: 10 Beautiful job.
-Paint Quality: 10 Great coatings!!! I expected that I would need a better coating to my standards.
-Fitment: 7 Had one of 8 mounting holes that was off-center. Not sure what to do with it yet.
-Light housing mounts: 7 Threads are REALLY tight due to the paint. I just drilled through them and used the enclosed nuts on the other side.

I have the stubby version (no winch) mounted on a Gladiator.

I loved the QRC bumper on my JKUR. It was awesome.

This bumper is great. It's solid.

However, putting the stock LED fog lights in (JTR) was hugely frustrating. like others, i stripped a couple of the button screws and ended up drilling out some of the holes. There's not enough space to get some of the nuts back behind the mount point. It's just a bad install process.

Mounting the bumper was better, but marginally so. Turns out that the tolerances the bumper requires are very tight. One of the holes on my Gladiator frame wasn't quite open enough and i had to grind it out, but once i got it on, it was solid.

The only other failing of this bumper is that you can't use the stock skid plate under the stock bumper. On the Rubicon, it's a study piece of steel. Since the QRC bumper doesn't really replace it, it would've been great if the QRC design had accommodated leaving the skid plate in place.

The bumper itself is fantastic......quality construction, looks great. Install of the bumper onto the jeep was extremely easy. If not for the poor design for mounting the fog lights, and the extremely tight access for the winch mounting bolts, this would have been 5 stars. I recommend installing your winch on the bumper prior to mounting the bumper on the jeep.

Bumper for Jeep Gladiator came in well packaged. The only small drawback but not a deal breaker was moving the original fog lights from OEM bumper to this one. The spot to add the last screw and nut is a very small tight space to put the allen wrench to tighten. The bad, mounting the SmittyBilt X2o winch was tough with the way the the bottom bumper bracket is mounted, but doable. The good, the winch won't be easy for someone to steal once mounted. Overall I would highly recommend this bumper, heavy duty and looks great, OEM fog lights fit and look perfect.

Front bumper came well packaged and without damage. The longest part of the install is taking the fog lights and harness out of the factory bumper.
The only proplem I found was the button head stews they provide are junk. I went and got 10 machine screws from the hardware store. Thry worked much better. And I would suggest zip-tying 2 of the screws for the fog lights. Getting the nut on the screws proved to be difficult. Zioeties worked just fine.
Actual install was simple, and I did not find the bumper heavy at all. Over all great product!

Bumper and winch look great on my Jeep..took 4 hours to install.
Ran into a couple issues during the process..1..found out after putting bumper on that there was no room to get winch on..had to take bumper off and pre mount winch....2..There is minimal room at rear of winch mounting bracket to get a socket wrench....needs a couple 1 1/4 access holes.....Other then that it looks great

Love the bumper and it went on very easy. Only problem is the screws to reattached the factory fog lights do not fit and I had to drill out the holes to make it fit and there was no way to hold wire harness in place. had to fab it to make it work.

This is a good looking bumper that fit pretty well. However, the top outer bolt holes on the bumper would not accept a bolt under any circumstance. The drivers side bolt stopped going in half way, and the passenger side went about halfway then wouldn't go deeper, despite spinning as if the threads were properly gripping.

Otherwise, the bumper looks great and is of good quality.

I really like this bumper - I was leaning towards a shorty but I chose this bumper for both it's features and price point. Because of the latter, my expectations where not that high.

I gave the bumper four stars mainly because of the poor packaging and because of one really terribad design flaw (see below). The Styrofoam blocks self-destructed during shipping and the bumper drove through the end of the box and the end of the bumper had minor cosmetic damage as a result.

The install was difficult and took several attempts to successfully mount the bumper - however, I think this is a Jeep issue and not an issue with the bumper although I believe that the tolerances in this bumper's mount points are incredibly fine -- you have to get things lined up perfectly and then you're going to have a struggle getting the back-side bolts in.

One pro tip -- on JLs, there's these extra braces bolted to the frame that provide extra reinforcement to the mount bracket that runs perpendicular to the frame. Mine had gotten kitty-wumpus and some light application with a sledge got them mount-holes re-aligned back to where they should be. I drilled out one hole before I realized what was going on -- once I got the frame supports (there are four) back in-alignment, mounting the bumper was easy (with two people) and getting all the bolts inserted required some finessing.

I also got to give props for the instructions - great photos, great detail. With one exception - and I have to call BS on Fig. 25 and the instructions telling you to stick the 2.5mm allen wrench behind the fog-light mount into the hex-screw... Unless you have the hands of an Oompa-Loompa, you're not sticking anything back there. I'd like to give the design engineer a couple of light taps with my trusty 2lb sledge to get them to re-think that non-solution. So, yeah, 1/3 of your fog-light mount points are hand-tightened.

I'd like to see the matching rear bumper come-out for the JL soon...and I'd also like to see them release a front skid-plate for this bumper.