Thread: Seats and Bull Bar, opinions required.

Bullbar, very handy mount antennas and lights but the primary reason for me is the protection to the front of the vehicle from animal strike, heavier vegetation and supermarket trolleys and careless drivers backing into to you.

If you have another reason for fitting a bullbar that is more important to you than the protection they offer, then you may want to consider something other than the steel ARB style of bar. That is something only you know.

The seats are mounted via a very easily accessible and simple method. If you want to change them, go to an all makes wrecker with some measurements and a diagram of the box you will have to mount them to and have a look around. Someone else might be able to help but I suspect that you may need an engineer's certificate for the modification. If your dealing with Mulgo I think he will be able to advise you about the need for a certificate.

The one thing that Landrover seats have is a removable seat cushion which allows access to the space under the seat, I don't know of other seats have this feature. You may want to keep that in mind.

these are from an E36 bmw, arrived yesterday and just fitted in place of the sports seats i fitted a few years back, these are leather, the passenger seat is on hinges so i can get to the battery, the drivers seat is bolted down solid but slides back heaps to allow access under seat and i have a hinged side panel for access to the compressor, the centre cubby is not in the photo

ThAt is an awesome job on the seats. Great idea with the hinges.

As said, depends what you want it for.
Great approach angle and a place for a winch?
Tubular.
Stopping skip from forcing you to remove him from your radiator support panel?
Full steel ARB bar (or TJM)
As for seats, no idea sorry.

I am surprised that you find the seats that uncomfortable. I don't mind them. i thought long and hard about fitting the $5000 Recaros when I bought my 90. They do look good. They are much cheaper from the UK but I think postage would be prohibitively expensive.

Hey dude,

In reference to the bullbar question there's obviously ten million threads on here about it where everyone vents their opinion, what I would say is the ARB/Tjm option.
Why? Well f you're worried about protection then if you go tubular and you do get some damage you'll be kicking yourself. I've had the ARB option on 2 defenders now and I can attest to their strength. The photo below is my old 110 after being smashed into a lowlux. Believe it or not but my engine was still running and the intercooler was perfect. So much so i pulled it out and used it in my brothers disco.
The accident had the lux at 80kmh and my rig at about 40kmh head-on collision. Prior to that I'd had plenty oflow scale dings and bumps and it was fine.

Obviously I've never had a tubular one but that's my piece on that. I think leather is over rated too. It gets super hot, sticks to your sunburn, and if your air on dies you'll regret it hard. Good firm fabric ones are legit.

Originally Posted by redrovertdi

these are from an E36 bmw, arrived yesterday and just fitted in place of the sports seats i fitted a few years back, these are leather, the passenger seat is on hinges so i can get to the battery, the drivers seat is bolted down solid but slides back heaps to allow access under seat and i have a hinged side panel for access to the compressor, the centre cubby is not in the photo

STOP!!!!! Bugger the seats is that an auto transmission I see? I want one! ( nice seats)

New post on how to get an auto coming up.

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Ok cheers for your opinions guys, looks like I'll sway towards the ARB bar.

Seats, I might speak to a motor trimmer see what they can do, just need a solution to make the seat recline. Maybe someone with an engineer brain can help out there

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