I like the engineering breakdown and how you qualify your comments. The comparison is also helpful, as I was considering at first, to go with your competitor due to cost. Thank you for this video!

I bought an eBay bumper for under $400, I have already hit trees, winched my way out of mud pits and bumper still great

“100% made in USA” …hide the Toyota next time

Check out 4WD is Life "Dirtcom Hitch Mounted Tire Carrier - Review". That video made me not want to get dirtcom due to customer service and warranty coverage issue. Plus the price is much higher with lower quality product.

Hey bro just saw you at the charging stations in ur rivian you left ur wallet on the floor man

So a bumper on a bumper

Seriously the price for this piece is rather high considering i can get a USA made front bumper for just 800 more. And i actually like the center design but those wings make it look awful

I dunno. I just cut down and old Yakima swing out bike rack and threw on a bolt on tire carrier. It was like $100 and worked without issue for years until I sold that vehicle. It’s a spare tire, not a goddamn gorilla enclosure. I have no doubt this is much stronger, but a tire is only going to weigh like 70-100lbs and the weak point is the tongue rating anyway. Spending $1500-$1800 for these things is unfathomable to me. At those prices, you can get a full steel bumper with a built in swing out and retain your full tow rating, not hurt your departure angle, not exceed your tongue weight, have better dynamics, etc. What purpose do these products serve at those prices?

Soooooo where are we at on the forgotten about 11-16 year models? 👀

Looks great but not $2k great.

hate music in a video

That jeep driver should not be up there. Clueless.

I have 2023 with the huge air dam and the prius catchers. Once I remove the prius catchers, is that where you are installing your brackets with the factory hardware?

why not just bring a pice of plywood up from the tires to check angle?

Thats not a good look at all. If you need protection like that then just buy a aftermarket front bumper that looks alot bette4

Would this work on a 2023 tesla model Y?

The video is great but their customer service is terrible. I placed my order back in October and I am still waiting for it. The manager lied to me, after talking to him he said my order was going to be sent out the next day and here I am without my order. TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!

"Considering that I live in Michigan, how well does it hold up against rust?"

Nice testing, I have a Rivian on order, hopefully they do an over the air update and add a simulated locker which is much needed.

What if you need to still pull a trailer with this on

I watched a video on KZbin about this product having rusting issue even on the early part of usage and not being exposed to road salt. Have you guys addressed that? Maybe a better powder coating?

Great test. As others mentioned would like to see the same with a dual motor. I have a little experience in control systems and would like to make some observations about what I see here and the 'simulated locker' you desire. Without a bunch of math I'll talk about two kinds of control systems, velocity based and distance based. Velocity based systems are the most familiar. These work by looking at the error between the velocity of the given system and the set velocity. Obvious examples are the cruise control on your vehicle. You set some speed, the cpu counts wheel rotations, divides by time, calculates the error and steps on the pedal more if low or less if high. A not so obvious example is the nearly identical system of wheel control in the Rivian and most any other vehicle. The driver is part of the control system and steps on the pedal depending on the error he sees between what he wants and what the vehicle is doing. The system looks at the pedal position and tries to make the speed match some algorithm. Remember, as you noted the Rivain seems to have no concept of wheel position, only wheel velocity. It looks for velocity errors when you are hoping for position, ie move all wheels 1 inch forward off the ramp. I contend that the 'simulated locker' you desire is not that velocity based system. What you want is a position based system, think of a milling machine xy table or servo motor where you set the position and the system goes to it. One position based system we're all familiar with is power steering. Whether electric or hydraulic we set a steering wheel position and the car turns the wheels to that position, with great force if required. Now imagine (lots of imagination) that the power steering system was controlling your vehicle wheels rotation instead. A quarter turn of the steering wheel would rotate all tires a quarter turn. Turning left would backup and right would forward. There would be no wheels spinning in the air unless you spun the steering wheel. Of course steering wheel control would be impractical, even with a speed knob on the steering wheel, but think of the forward aft control! I think the Rivian has the hardware to have this kind of control. 'Rock crawl mode' as currently implemented doesn't use it and should. As far as code, the guts of a PID (Proportional Integral Differential) controller is only about 10 lines of code but isn't off the shelf and would probably require several 100 lines of code to integrate with the existing velocity based system.

did Rigd respond to this video? lol

If they don't have the Hummer frame, then how is it road legal?

Not really the best video ive seen. He left out an important piece of info. You can definitely run these on opposite locations to move your tire away from the rear of the front fender. Its called adjustable upper control arms buddy.

I actually need dis

What do you torque these to?

what material is used for both sets of bolts?

Will it work for a 2010 toyota tundra 5.7 ??

Take off your are wheel covers. Tesla has stopped making them and is redesigning them. They rub against the tire and wear the sidewalks down.

When did your buddy preorder the truck? On unveil day?

This seems perfect for 99% of people who don't need to tow long distances. I know from experience how much Teslas save money vs buying gas, up to $400 per month adds up real quick.

Your buddy who thought he would be waiting got it because most reservation holders are cancelling.

I want mine when it comes but its really gotta have a bigger battery.

What a great video! You have a great business there. I thought that this was going to be a Tesla bashing video, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Subscribed and Notif. ON. Thanks brother. Be back for more cyber vids :)))))))

thats a fair assessment. cybertruck is a must have for its future look alone. Yup don't hate it until you see it. Its littttt.

I want bottom stainless cover to cover the battery.

Will this work with a gx470

Plastic bumpers?

Tesla how about a little ladder?

I want to see upgrades to improve the departure angle.

Great video, thanks for posting!

It can go higher... it has off road setting

Thanks for putting this together. Planning a trip out West with my Rivian R1S (Moab, Brocken Arrow, etc). It’s good to know if slow doesn’t do it, smash it a little.

Don't waste your time coming up with addons EV companies will be out of business soon.

It's not bullet proof just stops a 9mm.

I think the most are in California those people will buy anything they are told to.

It's a Fad EV market is going belly up,wait a year you'll be able to buy a Cybertruck for $2000.

Cybertruck Sap vehicle,your a Sap if they sucker you into buying one