Thread: Bullbar recommendations for 2010 Puma

I have a rovacraft/ britpart bar the same as noz, the swivel shackel mounts are great as well, and solid as well

muddy

depending on what look your really after this is ours its actually a Mantec winch bar..the A frame on it was custom built.

but I wanted a bar that looked much like the original, and this was it just had to adapt the A-bar that we had on the original.



This is the A frame on the original bumper bar so you can see the profile is much the same

This is the bar I have on my Puma.

I bought it from Dungog Motors at the NSW Landy Expo, but I can not tell you the brand as the box was destroyed in the deluge.

Beckford.

Originally Posted by PAT303

Noz,what winch is that?. Pat

Tigers 11 12000lb

Mine's the Front Runner sold by Opposite Lock. I had a few prerequisites which included:

· Enough frontal protection against the wildlife in the Pilbara
· Holes for the Hi-Lift adapter
· A steering guard that is compatible and integrates with the bulbar
· Reasonable resemblance of the original designed bumper
· Radio, sand flag and driving light mounting tabs
· Recovery point options at the chassis mounts

While most brands meet these requirements I’ve personally steered away from tubular bars (great looks but lack of protection) and the ARB and TJM ones purely because they’ve completely veered away from Land Rover’s original rounded corners.

The attached photo was taken a week ago and the bar has to date survived 2 Euro strikes (smallish Pilbara roo’s) and a road train wheel chock that came bouncing my way after falling off the truck on the Great Northern Highway (lost a bit of paint on the left corner of the bar on that one!)

I can't immagine you guys in the cities loving this one for looks, but in terms of protection it's proved itself.

Originally Posted by Loubrey

Mine's the Front Runner sold by Opposite Lock. I had a few prerequisites which included:

· Enough frontal protection against the wildlife in the Pilbara
· Holes for the Hi-Lift adapter
· A steering guard that is compatible and integrates with the bulbar
· Reasonable resemblance of the original designed bumper
· Radio, sand flag and driving light mounting tabs
· Recovery point options at the chassis mounts

While most brands meet these requirements I’ve personally steered away from tubular bars (great looks but lack of protection) and the ARB and TJM ones purely because they’ve completely veered away from Land Rover’s original rounded corners.

The attached photo was taken a week ago and the bar has to date survived 2 Euro strikes (smallish Pilbara roo’s) and a road train wheel chock that came bouncing my way after falling off the truck on the Great Northern Highway (lost a bit of paint on the left corner of the bar on that one!)

I can't immagine you guys in the cities loving this one for looks, but in terms of protection it's proved itself.

I have similar sentiments

Is the steering guard also supplied by Front Runner/Opposite Lock?

Regards

Dave G

Dave,

Yes, they have a steel one that attaches to the tubular guard already there and the two piece aluminium one I've got that replaces the tubular arrangement and slots into recesses in the bullbar.

I first had this combination back in 1996 on a 300Tdi that survived a number of animal strikes and buried tree stumps while I worked in Central Africa.

This is quite interesting as I went through the same a few weeks ago.

I believe the front runner bar is no longer available but stand to be corrected. I decided to go with the new ARB bar by default as i thought the others were average and wanted all the other fruit, ie tabs for lights antennaes etc .
To my suprise the ARB bar was the old style (not the smiley face) but has about 50-60mm more extention on the mounts to clear the grill. not particularly happy as it resembles a snow plough, the only good thing was that my M10000 dropped in no hassles. By the way it was ordered with the new part number.

cheers Mal