ARB Rear Bumper Install on 2024 Tacoma Off Road

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

 

Looking good!

 

Looks great. Post up a part# if you get a chance.

 

Looks great, I wasn’t a fan of the Trail Hunter until I saw one in person.

 

ARB Rear Bumper PT989-3524B

The wire harnness depends on your truck. Those part numbers are in the install manual posted above

 

Thanks… Sparks lists it for $1487. Might be worth stopping by my local dealer to see if they have it and would discount as well.

 

Nice write up! Looks really good!

 

Two dealers wanted almost $600 to Calibrate the sensors on the ARB Rear Bumper

So I went another path that does not require calibration.

The ARB Bumper comes with all new sensors, all 4 the same part number

The stock bumper uses the same sensors in the center, but different at the ends

The Parking Assist feature is off because it does not recognize the new sensors or at least the two at the ends that are different part numbers at least that is my theory.

I took the bumper off and partially disassembled so I could swap the sensors with the stock ones in the stock locations.

Now everything works as it should. If there is a difference in the sensitivity or angle detection, I can’t tell the difference from the drivers seat

The bottom line is for these Rear ARB bumpers, if you use the set of new sensors, Calibration is required or it won’t work. If you use the stock sensors, then the systems all work fine.

 

I had the bumper swap done after a minor rear end collision. Some guy in a Tesla stepped on the accelerator at a stoplight and bashed my rear bumper in. I had to give the dealership a Trail Hunter vin number to order the rear bumper.
I really just wanted to have more clearance for offloading as I kept scraping big boulders on the rear painted bumper ends.

 

The higher clearance bumper makes the exhaust tip look even lower. There's a reason the Pros and THs have a different exhaust tip, stock exhaust doesn't look right with the ARB bumper. You need to upgrade that too.

 

I know that was meant for Bucci.

I agree I did that before the bumper. I smashed the tail pipe on my Land Cruiser and went with the OEM exhaust option

 

Yeah, not calling Bucci's baby ugly. ARB bumpers look great but you need the exhaust mod to really make it work.

Whenever I see the TH dump exhaust I wonder why it dumps straight down and not 45deg to the (out)side.

 

Check out our off road exhaust system.

https://stillen.com/collections/exhaust/products/2024-toyota-tacoma-stillen-exhaust-systems

 

The bumper install looks good.

 

Are the two oval cutouts a piece you can remove and add lights? Or a back up sensor?

 

They were designed to place Rigid lights there. There was a supply chain issue for several months. Now there is a shop that sells a kit:

https://specialtyperformanceparts.c...t-plug-n-play-srl?_pos=1&_sid=233e11528&_ss=r

I can confirm they are shipping as I got one. Instructions are on their website. A thread is available in the other forum.

 

So only Rigid lights will fit because of the shape?

 

Just saw the link I would have thought that they could have used an adapter with the seven pin connector

 

If you never see dirt, that thing is worth the money on looks alone.