FYI Rear bumper be very careful backing up.

[Cattail cruncher]

The rear bumper on my 2019 1500 is paper thin and mostly plastic bumped into a pole and it dented the chrome. The chrome is paper thin. You may ask how did this happen, forgot to turn on my rear sensors after towing the boat, so I did not get the warning and did not see it in the camera. I looked under the bumper and was shocked at the plastid and thin metal holding the thing together. Just a FYI always be careful when backing up.

 

[Biga]

Yea, I noticed when washing the truck that I can easily flex the metal with my hand at least the parts that wrap around the sides.

 

[silver billet]

It's probably a good thing. The more the bumper crushes and aborbs the bumps, the less the rest of the truck feels.

 

[Willwork4truck]

Yep, weight reduction... like my fake chrome wheels on my Ford Edge, just sprayed chrome “paint”... really!
I had a 1956 Buick Century wagon, took the front bumper assembly in to get rechromed, it took 2 men and a boy to lift it!

 

[Dr. Jim]

"it took 2 men and a boy to lift it!" You mean, like, Charlie Sheen and Two and A Half Men?

 

[HKP7PSP]

Someone clipped the left side of my rear bumper in traffic a couple of weeks ago. His car needs a new fender, bumper and headlight... I had some scratches on the bumper after I wiped off the paint transfer. It handled that perfectly. As another poster mentioned, some flex is a good thing.

 

[Cattail cruncher]

Well, mine actually pushed in 1/4 " and stayed there if you look underneath there is no flex just cheap shat metal, so they saved a few pounds there. The new ram cast alum running boards are stronger than that bumper and weigh 40 LBS each. Anywho cary on brothers and sisters.

 

[Glenn54]

Thanks for the heads up. I had just bought a new 2012 Tundra and was backing up in a parking garage. I was watching the backup camera and mirrors, still backed into a truck behind me. My bumper was bent and I was sick about it. No damage to the other truck since I hit the hitch. Left a note with my info anyway.