ARIES35-5005 3-Inch Polished Stainless Steel Bull Bar, No-Drill, Select Dodge, Ram 1500

Great product, easy to install, all nuts and bolts are in. Take some time to cut the plastic fender underneath the car but once done, this thing looks great. I bought a 105$ one before this, it was a waste of money and time and sent it back. This one is great.

Let me start off by saying this bull bar looks great on my 2013 Ram Laramie! Its really good quality and has held up very well in the Iowa weather! It was fairly easy to install! It took me roughly 3 hours and a 6 pack to install 100% by myself with no lift! (although I do have a 6" lift on my truck so that helped) By far the hardest part of the install is cutting the front valance/skirt whatever its called! Cutting those slots and getting them perfect was a headache and the video Aries put online makes it looks WAY easier than it really is, as im sure you can imagine! But overall the install wasn't too bad! The brackets and hardware they provide you with are pretty good quality and should hold up for some time!Now the reason I docked 2 stars! The first one I ordered showed up with 2 big dents right in the middle of the upper cross bar, and this being chrome the dents stuck out like a sore thumb! The bull bar itself has a little dent on each side where they bent the metal in the manufacturing process so obviously everyone of them will have this, but those are hard to see unless you stand off to the side and really look for them! So i sent the first bull bar back and replaced it with the same exact one...After receiving the second one I noticed yet again the factory dents on the sides (like i mentioned they all have due to bending the bar) but the second one also had a tiny dent off to the side but close to the middle of the top cross bar again! Its obvious to me that this is due to the way Aries packages these things! They dont put foam blocks around the bars themselves, both bull bars came packaged the same exact way so i know this is done at the factory! They could easily avoid these small dents and dings by including more foam in the box around the bar itself, there is 1 chunk of foam but its just used as a spacer which sits in middle of the bull bar like where the box with all the hardware is! I emailed Aries not once but two times regarding this asking if there was anything they could do to get me a product without dents and dings on it straight out of the box, and I never heard a single thing back from Aries! One of the big reasons I decided to get on here and leave this review, since they can't seem to reply to customer emails I wanted to get on here and let other future customers know what to expect! So instead of dealing with returning/exchanging the bull bar again I decided to take the hit and installed the bull bar on my pickup and decided to deal with it! So if you are extremely picky you might want to look elsewhere because I can almost assure you that you will receive a bull bar with atleast a small ding or 2 ...and on this model being chrome they really do stick out and are very noticeable!Overall I am happy with the looks of this bar on my truck and glad I chose the Aries over the competitors! It really looks nice and beefs up any pickup the second you strap it on the front! Great price here, but if I would have paid the full price other sites are asking for this I would not be very happy about it and would not have settled with a new one with dings! Aries really should reevaluate the way they are shipping these things out because this could easily be avoided!

Took about an hour and a half to install on a 2011 Ram 1500 Laramie. Looks great. The only difficult part of the installation is cutting the splash guard.

A nice addition to my truck

Great fit easy install looks great it was short one lock washer but no big deal I had one

This is not stainless steel. Got mine in 2018 and it is rusting.

Looks great , easy fit. Holes predrilled for KC Lights. Fit well on my 21013 Ram 1500. Ok. Ok. Ok.

Easy to install. Even with only one person

Easy to install, had to modify the bracket a bit because of my lift kit but really looks awesome!

Showed up on time and looks great on the truck. Had to modify one of the brackets because it had been welded together with one piece upside down and the holes were on the wrong side.Manufacturers error not the fault of Amazon.

Started rusting only after couple of months !