Installing RC Steel Tubular Rear Bumper on 2025 RAM 1500

If you check Rough Country web site you will see that the bumper is for 19-24 RAM 1500. What is funny, when I ordered it the title said 19-25 RAM 1500. And the actual metal shell fits very well. The evel is in the details.

Here is my order. You can see that they thought it should fit my 2025.

The things that required adjustments:

• TPS receiver
• Blind spot sensor
• Cross traffic sensor
• License plate lights

TPS receiver on my truck is 3 times longer than the one on the pictures in the installation manual. So, I had to mount it like this:

Blind spot sensors are originally mounted under plastic bumper extensions. They don't work if covered by metal. I had to cut holes and print special brackets to mount them in proper positions. Unfortunately, when not covered with plastic the sensors are too sensitive and detect every tree on the sides of 8 lane freeway. I will have to print polycarbonate covers for them and adjust to the proper thickness to make sensors work.

Installing cross-traffic sensors was another PITA. Originally they are located under the same cover forward of the blind spot sensors. I did not have space for another hole in the bumper. So, I mounted them beneath the bumper. They work, but I will have to rethink this later.

Original 2025 RAM 1500 license plate lights are smaller than they were in previous years. At first I ordered lights on Amazon. But the truck said that there is a short in the lights. I even tried to order another version with no luck. So, I removed the content of one pair of oredered lights and carefully transferred the original PCBs into those shells. Note: some cutting is required to position connector pins correctly. Then I sealed all this with epoxy glue. Truck happily recognized the lights.

Note: If you try to drive with disconnected blind spot sensors or with disconnected cross traffic sensors you will get a pretty permanent error on your dashboard. It can only be cleared with advanced OBD tool. Cheap ones won't recognize the error.