Thread: Rijidij wheel carrier and bumperettes

Originally Posted by kogvos

Mine is 375 mm from the door to the limit of the tyre. I have standard 235/85 R16 on the Defender.

Can anyone with an iSi bike carrier confirm whether you have enough clearance with the wheel carrier. I have been looking at it for use both on the car and my camper trailer but my camper trailer spare sits out about 300mm and I haven't been able to get a clear answer from George as to whether it will fit.

Sorry to revive an old(ish) post, but thought others might benefit from my recent experience. If anyone was considering buying the Terrafirma bumperettes for a 90 but was put off by the fact that they don't fit the Australian spec cars and you need to butcher the mudflap bracket to do it, then I can confirm that this is not the case for the TF bumperettes I bought from landybitz on ebay (not a promotion, and I have no affiliation with the seller).

These bumperettes have a cut out section in the horizontal protection plate to allow them to fit around the mudflap bracket, as per the photo below.




This appears to be different to those bought direct from the UK (due to the different exhaust/mudflap arrangement there). You can see the lack of cut-out on the photo in this link Defender 90 Terrafirma Rear Bumper Corners P.O.A TF570, which is the same as that on the Terrafirma online shop. Not sure if this is the same for all other UK sellers, but I suspect so. Would be a very east mod to do if you have bought/want to buy from the UK though.

Anyway, trickiest thing was getting the bolts through the tight angle between the rear cylindrical bar and the mounting bracket (and backing them out enough to insert into the holes in the rear crossmember). I chipped some powdercoat off the bumperette doing this. For mounting, you will need to remove and re-use the two existing bolts that anchor the seatbelt bar ? these go through the outermost supporting bracket. There is a crush tube there that may slip out of position when you remove them. Supplied bolts go through the inside mounting bracket holes into existing (empty) holes in the crossmember.

Much easier if you remove the mudflap bracket (with mudflap) before you fit them ? I fitted the LHS without doing this, but couldn't on the RHS.

Very solid bit of protection kit, and looks alright too I reckon:



Nick

Only issue with the cut out is it renders the side protection as useful as a Sore arse to a boundary rider.

They can now be knocked in easily to the side panel...

Originally Posted by Tombie

Only issue with the cut out is it renders the side protection as useful as a Sore arse to a boundary rider.

They can now be knocked in easily to the side panel...

You got any pics of that happening Tombie? (serious question - would be interested to see)

I agree the cutout weakens it, but I still would have thought the force required to bend 20mm thick steel (the width of the folded section at the cutout) over a max distance of 100-135mm from the fulcrum would be pretty significant. And the situation in which you'd get an isolated lateral force only on the side face of the bumperette forward of the cutout would be pretty rare?

But would eat my words if others have found it to be a problem

Never seen it happen. But easily done sliding into a rock...

Hopefully never happen!

And those "accidents" seem to happen at the most inopportune times.

Yeah, fair point! Just hope it never happens

Fair point Tombie, however it may be better to have some rather than no protection, the damage would be worse without, I would think.

Regards,
PeterW

Originally Posted by Mjt084

On a semi-related topic can someone help me out and tell me how far their spare now projects from the rear of the car after fitting the spare carrier? I'm interested in fitting one but have a very tight garage and can't bare to park the Defender out on the street just yet.

Although I haven't actually measured it, mine with the Mantec does not appear to stick out any further than with the original mount.

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