Falken Fabrication - Skid Plate - Mod Front Bumper - Jeep JK & JKU

The Mod Bumper is designed from the ground up to deliver class-leading off-road performance. What we offer is the best possible approach angle, ensuring the bumper never becomes the limiting factor when climbing steep ledges. At the same time, it’s strong enough to handle contact with those same ledges if the situation demands it — or if things simply go sideways.

That said, the truth is that most JKs spend plenty of time on the road, whether for daily driving or overlanding. Our ambition was therefore to eliminate unnecessary weight wherever possible, and today the Mod Bumper is one of the lightest on the market. It’s no fun losing precious lift height — bought for hard-earned money — just because the bumper is heavy.

Features

Modular design

Choose the width and style of your end caps, add a skid plate or a hoop — all depending on how you use your Jeep and what you think looks best.

• Super Stubby End Caps are for those who want maximum clearance and a tight packaging around the winch.
• Stubby End Caps suit those who want grill protection but don’t have strong feelings about the Jeep fog lights.
• Mid-Width Fog Light End Caps are slightly wider to accommodate fog lights, while still being as tight as possible.
• Skid Plate is available for those who feel it’s overkill to cut away the crash bar. Despite its name, it benefits from protection against contact with mother earth — hence the skid plate.
• The Hoop serves several purposes: a solid mounting point for auxiliary lights, protection for the winch and radiator, to name a few. But above all, most agree it’s the finishing touch on a bumper!
• Falken’s license plate bracket for the fairlead is a great option that doesn’t interfere with winch functionality and provides excellent clearance — without bent plates — off-road.
• Falken’s Vacuum Pump Relocation is an accessory for moving the pump found on JK/JKU 2012–2018, which sits in the way of the bumper installation. Note that our solution does not take up valuable space in the engine bay, where many other accessories already compete for room.

Low weight with maintained strength

The days when a front bumper had to weigh 70 kg and required two people or a jack to mount are officially over. Fully equipped, the Falken Mod Bumper weighs just below half of that — thanks to Swedish steel. Sweden might not be the world’s largest steel producer, but we are world-leading in high-quality steel.

The secret behind this weight reduction is simple: we use significantly stronger steel, S355/A50, than most other manufacturers. For comparison, many competitors build their bumpers from S235/A36, and some China-made options are even S185/A28.

This allows us to reduce plate thickness from 6 mm in softer steel to 4 mm while maintaining strength — and combined with smart design, this cuts weight dramatically.

The hoop, for its part, is made from 40x3 mm S355 tubing.

Designed and manufactured in Sweden

The Falken Mod Bumper is an entirely Swedish product, designed and manufactured by Swedish enthusiasts.

Our workshop is located outside Norrtälje, where we design our products using modern tools such as 3D scanning and CAD. Manufacturing then happens in-house using a CNC plasma table, a 120-ton NC press brake, tube bending, and welding.

Not only are you supporting small-scale Swedish manufacturing, but together we also minimize environmental impact. Our products haven’t travelled around the globe before ending up on your Jeep, and the steel is produced according to Swedish environmental standards.

Shackle mounts

Cut from 20 mm S355 plate and welded on both the inside and outside of the bumper. When it comes to this part, we haven’t skimped on material thickness — these mounts are designed to withstand recovery situations beyond the ordinary.

That said, we’ve also put effort into making the design both attractive and functional. The mounts fit both traditional steel shackles and modern soft shackles. All edges are rounded with a 2 mm radius to protect soft shackles and ensure the powder coating lasts as long as possible. Practical, yet also a visual finishing touch.

Recessed winch mount

The Falken Mod Bumper is designed around one of the largest high-performance winches on the market, the Warn Zeon 12, which fits like a glove. This ensures all similar-sized or smaller winches with the standard 10” × 4.5” mounting pattern will also fit. The mount is recessed between the frame rails where the winch enjoys maximum protection, a low center of gravity, and unrestricted airflow to the radiator.

Powder coating

The Mod Bumper is powder-coated in two layers: first a zinc-based primer for rust protection, then a black textured topcoat.

Installation

Beyond appearance and both on- and off-road performance, one of our key design goals was user-friendly installation. We’ve dealt with far too many bumpers that seem to require an extra elbow joint, miniature hands, or two people just to lift them into place.Regardless of how many modules you choose, the Falken Mod Bumper is designed for simple installation with basic hand tools. All mounting points are easy to reach, and we use flag nuts and welded nuts wherever possible to simplify the process.

We haven’t listed an estimated installation time, as everyone’s circumstances differ. But it’s worth mentioning that one of our prototype testers commented that removing the stock bumper took longer and was more complicated than installing the Mod Bumper!

You can download the installation instructions via the link below, and we’re just a phone call away if you have questions before, during, or after installation.