Bull bars on or off..?

[Chas]

I'm with Shayne. Off. Out with the angry grinder and chop them up, into the bin. Nasty. Thin, flimsy and utterly functionless.

Only saying Des, you know.

Flimsy? Mine managed to demolish a Toyo dealers workshop wall

 

[Bernese]

Since 2007 it has been illegal to fit bull bars which do not conform to new pedestrian friendly safety standards

Well mine certainly don't do that so they will be binned...

 

[Shayne]

Landrover still fit foam ones to new vehicles and you can still fit a steel winch bumper to a new vehicle , as long as it has a winch , because when it houses a winch it becomes a utility bumper and so is exempt from the very law that bans them

 

[madmanmart]

I like a nice bull bar. Genuine ones aren't flimsy and protect the front well.

 

[Bernese]

Any pics of genuine bull bars?

 

[madmanmart]

Any pics of genuine bull bars?

My dads got one on his truck, I'll grab you one tomorrow.

 

[Bernese]

My dads got one on his truck, I'll grab you one tomorrow.

Thanks

 

[clivehorridge]

ARB, it's similar, but a bit more subtle than the one on your truck, IMO.

This one on mine has been badly modified (but it's not so notable in the picture) so ignore the mods at the bottom...

Kaymart and TJM also do nice bumpers, but either will cost you kidney (especially ARB) unless you can find a decent one second-hand.

 

[chapel gate]

Des, bull bars like clives are the proper job, they were originally designed so when you hit a kangaroo theres less chance of writing off your car. Infact there also refered to as roo bars in aus.

they are also usefull for ram raiding toyota dealerships..

a lot of uk offerings are for show or hanging spot lights off.

 

[madmanmart]

 

[Bernese]

Well they make mine look like bin fodder...

 

[Paddler Ed]

As CG says, in Aus they're known as roo bars, or just bars.

This one has done 2 roo/wallaby strikes, one at 50km/h the other 80 (and accelerating). First one went straight under (only a ~25kg wallaby), the 2nd (50kg ish roo) hit the front left corner, and ended up on the opposite side of the road.

No damage from either.

That replaced this:

Town nudge bar and stock bumper (which was still steel on this)

 

[Paul]

On

 

[Ben Stratford]

On