Mine is several years old, and is on its second truck. When it was new, I sand blasted the cheap factory finish and powder coated it silvervein to match my rear bumper. It still looks like new!! I have a 9000lb winch on a Transformer mount that I can use front or back. It works very well!! It makes a great platform for mounting large aux. lights, and as a bonus I made up some 2 gauge jumper cables that plug into the winch power plug.