Camco 40332 RV Bumper Cap Solar Light | White LED

The Camco 40332 does two jobs at once. It caps the open end of your RV's rear bumper, and it puts a white LED light right where you need it when you pull into a site after dark. If you've ever backed into a spot at dusk and fumbled around the back of the trailer looking for the sewer connection or the hose, you already know why a light back there earns its keep.

Most travel trailer and fifth-wheel bumpers are a hollow square steel tube. A lot of folks store their sewer hose inside it, which means the ends need caps to keep the hose from sliding out and to keep road spray and debris from packing in. This cap does that job, and it's solar powered, so there's no wiring to run and nothing to tie into your 12-volt system. The small solar panel on top charges the built-in rechargeable battery during the day, and the light is ready to go at night.

It's a square unit with a clear lens and a black housing, so it blends in with a factory bumper and doesn't look bolted-on. The white LED throws a clean, usable light. This isn't a floodlight for the whole campsite, it's task lighting for the back of the rig. Think finding your footing, locating the hitch or the sewer bayonet, or just marking the back corner of the trailer so nobody walks into it in the dark.

Camco built in multiple lighting modes, so you can set it for how you actually camp. Steady light when you're working back there, or a lower mode when you just want a little ambient glow through the night. Because it charges itself off the sun, you're not watching your house batteries or hunting for an outlet. Park in a spot that gets some daylight and it tops itself off.

Install is about as simple as RV gear gets. The cap slides onto the square end of the bumper. No drilling into the frame, no splicing wires, no fuse to find. Set it, and it's ready. If your bumper is the common square profile, it fits snugly. We'd still recommend checking your bumper's outside dimension before ordering, because RV bumpers do come in a couple of sizes and a cap needs to match the tube it's capping.

Where does this shine? Boondocking and dry camping, honestly. When you don't have shore power and you're careful about every amp, a self-charging solar light that doesn't touch your batteries is exactly the kind of small thing that makes a trip smoother. It's also handy for anyone who stores the sewer hose in the bumper and wants a finished, capped look with a bit of function built in.

A couple of honest notes. It's solar, so it needs daylight to charge. Park under heavy tree cover for days and you'll get less run time. And the LED is sized for task lighting at the back of the rig, not for lighting up an entire site the way an awning light would. Set your expectations there and it does exactly what it's built to do. For the price, it's a smart little upgrade that most owners wish they'd added sooner.

We like gear that solves a real problem without adding complexity, and this one fits. There's no app, no controller, no wiring diagram. It caps a bumper that needed a cap anyway and gives you light you didn't have before. Grab one for each open end of the bumper if you store your hose there and want both ends finished. First-time trailer owners and seasoned full-timers get the same thing out of it, a little less fumbling in the dark at the back of the rig.