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I picked up my ARB bumper yesterday and installed it. It took about 4 hours, but went on pretty easy.
No instructions come in the box. Fortunately when I ordered it I was able to get a PDF file from the Toyota (attached)
The instructions say you need to order a new wire harness from Toyota, which I did. The clips and retainers are all layed out to the ARB design.
The bumper comes with 4 new Sonar sensors. You do reuse your Blind Spot Monitor sensors (Corner sensors above bumper)
The only issue I had was after I was done, the Parking assist was disabled for front and rear. Everything else going through the harness seems to work; lights and Blind Mode sensors
The instructions tell the tech to perform a Parking sensor calibration and I don't have that capability.
Searching the internet I didn't find anything about my issue. I asked a person on here if the shop who installed his bumper recalibrated the sensors and he told me that they sent it to the dealer to register and calibrate them.
I reached out to the Toyota Dealer I bought the bumper from and he confirmed with the lead service tech that the system goes into open loop until they program the new sensors.
I will be taking it to the dealer on Tuesday to have that done.
I had two questions before I ordered it
1) Will the bumper be heavy enough to cause any droop on the rear? The answer is no, it measured the same before and after
2) Do I need to order the new harness? I likely could have made the stock harness and parking sensors work, but I didnt try
The other aftermarket rear bumpers reuse the existing sensors and harness and likely could have done that here. I did remove the stock harness and sensors from the old bumper in case I need them for troubleshooting. I could plug the 4 old sensors in and connect it to the truck to see if the parking sensors work again, but will follow through on the Toyota Calibration
One other note, I bought this stand on Amazon to remove and replace an Aux fuel tank in my Land Cruiser (pictured). Once the bumper was complete on my work bench, I transfred it to this stand and worked it into place. It made it easy for one person to install it
Very happy with the robustness of the design. I wish I knew ahead of time using the new sensors required calibration as I may have played with the old sensors before fully assembling the bumper. Not sure if they would have fit and stock has different sensors center vs outer. The ARB 4 sensors are all the same and the same as the stock center ones. I am sure I will be happy in the end to have used the new sensors and harness
No instructions come in the box. Fortunately when I ordered it I was able to get a PDF file from the Toyota (attached)
The instructions say you need to order a new wire harness from Toyota, which I did. The clips and retainers are all layed out to the ARB design.
The bumper comes with 4 new Sonar sensors. You do reuse your Blind Spot Monitor sensors (Corner sensors above bumper)
The only issue I had was after I was done, the Parking assist was disabled for front and rear. Everything else going through the harness seems to work; lights and Blind Mode sensors
The instructions tell the tech to perform a Parking sensor calibration and I don't have that capability.
Searching the internet I didn't find anything about my issue. I asked a person on here if the shop who installed his bumper recalibrated the sensors and he told me that they sent it to the dealer to register and calibrate them.
I reached out to the Toyota Dealer I bought the bumper from and he confirmed with the lead service tech that the system goes into open loop until they program the new sensors.
I will be taking it to the dealer on Tuesday to have that done.
I had two questions before I ordered it
1) Will the bumper be heavy enough to cause any droop on the rear? The answer is no, it measured the same before and after
2) Do I need to order the new harness? I likely could have made the stock harness and parking sensors work, but I didnt try
The other aftermarket rear bumpers reuse the existing sensors and harness and likely could have done that here. I did remove the stock harness and sensors from the old bumper in case I need them for troubleshooting. I could plug the 4 old sensors in and connect it to the truck to see if the parking sensors work again, but will follow through on the Toyota Calibration
One other note, I bought this stand on Amazon to remove and replace an Aux fuel tank in my Land Cruiser (pictured). Once the bumper was complete on my work bench, I transfred it to this stand and worked it into place. It made it easy for one person to install it
Very happy with the robustness of the design. I wish I knew ahead of time using the new sensors required calibration as I may have played with the old sensors before fully assembling the bumper. Not sure if they would have fit and stock has different sensors center vs outer. The ARB 4 sensors are all the same and the same as the stock center ones. I am sure I will be happy in the end to have used the new sensors and harness
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