Fab Fours Matrix Bumpers for Dodge Ram 1500

Take the No Guard Front Bumper Unless You Push Through Brush

The Pre-Runner Guard adds a steel bar. It climbs off each end of the bumper and arcs across the lower half of the grille, leaving your headlights and the RAM lettering clear. No Guard stops at the bumper line. Nothing else about the 2 changes.

Your front camera is why that matters. Both bumpers make room for it, though Fab Fours lists that fit for the 2019 through 2022 trucks and stops there. Check it on a newer Ram before you order. Either way, the bar crosses the camera's line of sight, and Fab Fours calls out minor camera interference on that version only.

So start from No Guard. Move up to the Pre-Runner Guard when your front end meets what a bumper cannot reach. Low limbs, heavy brush, an animal on a back road at night. Steel across the grille is worth a clipped camera view then. On a truck that spends its week on pavement, it is not.

A Winch Needs a Second Part

Both front bumpers hold a winch up to 12,000 pounds. Fab Fours tested the fit with a Warn Zeon 12. The winch is a separate buy, which is normal. The bracket is the part people miss.

Fab Fours states it plainly. A relocation bracket is required for every winch that goes in this bumper, not just some of them. The control box comes off the winch and moves somewhere else on the truck. And the kits listed for that job are Warn kits, by part number. Run another brand and that piece is yours to solve, so settle it before the bumper ships.

The rest of the face is mounts. The center holds a single-row 30-inch light bar, and it opens to a double row if you leave the winch out. There are slots and tabs at each end for more lights. Removable inserts open up more positions when you want them. For recovery, the face carries integrated D-ring mounts. None of the lights come with the bumper.

If You Have a Rebel, a Diesel, or a Classic

Fab Fours lists 5 exclusions on both of these bumpers: Rebel, Express, Sport, diesel, and Classic. Two of those names are older than the truck this bumper is cut for. Express and Sport were trims on the previous Ram, the one Ram kept building and selling as the 1500 Classic. So the Classic already covers them.

That leaves 3 that can catch you.

The Rebel wears its own off-road front end, and nothing on this page bolts to it. The Ram Rebel collection carries the brands that do.

The diesel means the 3.0L EcoDiesel. Ram stopped building it during the 2023 model year, so on a 2024 or newer Ram the question never comes up.

The Classic is a different truck wearing the same name. Ram sold the older body new, badged Classic, right beside the redesigned one. A model year alone will not tell you which you have, so go look at the grille and the badge.

It is a 3 to 5 hour job for 2 people, straight onto the factory bolt locations. Fronts are all this page carries. Rears, the older bodies, and the Classic are in the wider Dodge Ram 1500 collection. Start at the front.

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