DV8 offroad bumper?

Anyone have any experience with this brand? Never heard of em and would like to get more insight on it?

 

Hey Kyle, never heard of that brand, but it does look heavy. Add a winch and make sure you have some upgraded springs up front. Good luck no matter which bumper you go with.

 

I have one of their balls

I know, no help, but it's a good looking bumper. The 2nd gen is sold out.

 

Do a little search on Tacomaworld.com about them

 

They're cheaper on eBay for $539 shipped I've been eyeing them, but not sure. There's 1 guy on Instagram that has one, it looks awesome, he said he recommends it

 

How was the install fairly easy?

 

He said just removed the stock bumper and this lined right up no problems. They have a rear bumper that matches, I sent them a message through eBay, they'd give 5% discount if ordered both. Not bad for under $1k.

 

I ordered a front and rear DV8 bumper from KO Offroad. They sell them on ebay, or you can contact them directly at 406-203-1556. They were cheaper than buying them directly from DV8, plus the shipping was free with KO Offroad. It took about 5 working days to receive them from the time I ordered them. They were shipped by an enclosed large commercial freight company. The freight guy was happy to help me load the bumpers into the back of my Tundra. It was wrapped VERY well to protect the bumpers during shipping. There were about 5 layers total. It looks like they wrapped the bumper in a thin foam, then seranwrap, then a more heavy duty foam almost like the liner that goes in a tool drawer, then cardboard, then more heavy duty seranwrap. There is no way these bumpers would have been damaged in shipping. I was very impressed. The "crinkle" powder coating is very nice. These bumpers have exceeded my expectations so far. I have already mounted my Engo 12,000 winch in the winch plate and wired it all up. I am planning to install the bumpers here in the next couple days. I will take some pictures before and after and also give feed back on the install. The only one thing I have noticed is the washers that came with my winch were a little small for the larger openings in the DV8 bumper, so I ran down to Walmart (it was late at night and they were the only thing opened) and purchased some 1 1/2 washers with a 3/8" opening to easily cover the slightly larger whole in the bumper and this fixed it for $1. This is not DV8 fault though, I just think the hardware that came with the winch was on the cheap side. So far this bumper is the best deal I've ever found on a full front replacement bumper.

 

I will post more pictures once the 35s and 20" black wheels are installed.

The install was very straightforward, no problems at all. The only two small downsides are that the rear bumpers does not have holes that line up with the license plate, and there is no hole already installed in the rear bumper for the 4 pin/7 pin trailer plug that is installed from the factory in the rear bumper. I simply plan to take a hole saw and cut a hole out that will allow me to mount the factory plugs in the rear bumper. This is a very small price to pay for having a well built bumper that is about half the proce of other after market winch bumpers.

 

Looks great!

 

I put mine on in about 4 hours but that’s including wiring 4 led lights and a 12,000# winch. I’ve got some 288 watt led lights for the top of the hoop but haven’t took the time to wire them up. I did use the existing fog light wiring harness for my 4 bumper mounted leds.
Oh, I removed that lame pink ribbon from the winch.

 

Did you buy your lights from DV8 or did you get them somewhere else? I will be looking into some LED lights for the holes. I think I might put a small LED light bar on top of the hoop.

 

Does the front end seem heavy now while driving and did you do anything with the suspension? Looks good though.

 

I bought mine on e bay.

 

I haven’t done anything to the suspension . It might feel a tad heavy in the front but nothing unexpected. The d loops do cause some clanking on potholes so I’m going to put some rubber pads where they contact the bumper.

 

I can feel a little additional weight on the front end. I think if I added about 3 psi to the front tires, it would probably go away. My tires are stock "passenger" street tires though so any weight has a much bigger impact on them.

On my 2005 Tundra, when I had stock passenger tires, loads in the bed were more noticeable than when I swapped to a LT285/75r16 tire. I think that tire is E rated too, but loads felt much more stable.

Well I have LT 35x12.50r20 E rated tires that are going on this 2014 Tundra and I suspect the wider contact patch, plus firmer tire with the heavier load rating, will smooth out that additional weight.

I will be sure to report back after the wheels and tires are on.

 

This is a daytime shot of the low beams and leds in the bumper.

 

My DV8powder coat is peeling off. The powder coat got slightly damaged although packaged quite well from KO/OE on eBay. Will eventually have to redo. The fit was poor. Bad mounting bracket design. They are supposed to be getting corrected brackets. This only applies to 2nd Gen front winch bumper.

 

How long have you had yours? Even if the coating does peel off, I have a company near me who will put a lifetime bedliner coating on both the front and rear for $200 if I bring them in to their shop off the truck. Even if I have to spend $200 to get that done, I will still only be at about $1,250 for front and rear bumpers which is far cheaper than anything else on the market.

 

Are the lights "yellow" tint... or are they the same color as your head lights? Its hard to tell from the picture.

Those are also 3.5" lights right?

 

It started peeling right away. I could gone through the trouble of shipping it back and getting a replacement but wasn't a big deal for me. I called and finagled $150 to be put back into PayPal acct. Ended up being a pretty good deal. I do want to get the new bracket set.

 

Oh yeah, $150 back would be plenty to get a really nice spray on bed liner coating with a lifetime warranty down here in Houston, Tx. Heck thats enough money to have the labor done to take it off, have it lined, and have it reinstalled with you doing no work at all.

 

Their definitely bright daylight colored (bright white with no yellow at all. Their much brighter than the low beams. Yes their 3.5”. I looked at the lights KO Off Road sells and found them for next to nothing on e bay. The hardware was really nice and bolts right up to the KO/DV8 bumper

 

Here is the truck finished.

 

Did you get the 3.5" lights directly from DV8 or did you get them somewhere else? I am trying to figure out where to pick some up at. Also how to mount them where the light will actually uniformly shine due to the angled cut in the bumper. Seems like the angle of the opening would hinder the light from shinning everywhere and cause it to be more focused.

 

I am confused... did you buy the bumpers at KO wheels? Or the 3.5" lights? Or both?

 

You can get the bumper and lights off KO wheels. However, save yourself some $ and get the light off e bay after studying them on KO Wheels.

 

Do you have a link to the lights you speak of? Or at least a name? I have been looking around on Amazon and ebay and I have not seen any with great reviews in 3.5". Seems like 3" and 4" size are much more popular than 3.5".

 

Found another one just scroll down on the upper post I put on.