I sacrificed a bit of aproach angle for the utility of the push bumper design, don't think I'm gonna miss it too much. as to the tow points I plan on grabbing a good heavy tree saver size strap and keeping it in the rig for winches and chains to hook to the hooks the nice thing about the slots is they allow angled pulls on the stock tow hooks, I may decide to cut the slots wider and/or go with some shackle mounts for tow points but I do want to keep everything behind that chunk of plate steel.