Bull Bar options

here are a couple of pics of my bar i made a couple of months ago. great n having to worry about airbag compliance

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Originally Posted by kenleyfred

Yesterday I passed a minor nose to tail accident. The back vehicle was a 4x4 with TJM bar, It was pushed back and the front end was buckled. It had more damage than the sedan it had hit.

Cheers
Kenley

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Landrover OE ones also push back and buckle. As you can see below I needed a new driver side indicator lens but Landrover only sell the entire indicator assembly...you can't just buy the lens.
Putting plastic light lenses on a bumper bar seems a dumb idea to me. Especially seeing that Landrovers with bullbars end up having 3 separate front indicators on each side..slight overkill.

Mark

Mark
Their bar looks very similar to the ARB one, was that a minor bingle that caused that much damage? the accident I referred to was a very minor nose to tail.
Kenley

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Originally Posted by BlueWagon

...Landrovers with bullbars end up having 3 separate front indicators on each side..slight overkill.

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Yes, but if you are positioned on the opposite side of the vehicle the front indicator can be totally obscured by the cato, so they need a clearly visible indicator on the bar.

they only have two separate front indicators the other one is on the side :p

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Originally Posted by solmanic

Yes, but if you are positioned on the opposite side of the vehicle the front indicator can be totally obscured by the cato, so they need a clearly visible indicator on the bar.

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Yeah I guess so, although with the ARB bar it is actually the added spotlights which do any obscuring from the opposite side of the vehicle.
However...applying this logic would mean that the spare wheel which comes mounted on the rear door from the factory, and which totally obscures the rear indicator from the opposite side of the vehicle, should have indicators mounted on it like bullbars.

Cheers
Mark

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Originally Posted by kenleyfred

Certainly they say that for legal reasons, but I have been under the impression that with a bridle they were more than strong enough. Land Rover tell me to never do a snatch recovery so it wouldn't get the sudden stress of a snatch.

If this is incorrect and they cannot be used I will have to go back to not having a clue. At present there is nothing on a SVX to use. The usual tie down point which Land Rover say to use with a bridle are covered by the SVX bash plate.
Cheers
Kenley

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I know the pic is not very good, but this is a second hand bar I bought for $200. Some minor mig work to mount the winch and the it now fits the SVX.

Tony

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Originally Posted by Roulston

I know the pic is not very good, but this is a second hand bar I bought for $200. Some minor mig work to mount the winch and the it now fits the SVX.

Tony

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Hey Tony - love the pic of your car even though quality not great as you said.
Do you know what brand the Bull bar was?
And I like the spotties too - what's the details of these?

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Originally Posted by SVX37

Hey Tony - love the pic of your car even though quality not great as you said.
Do you know what brand the Bull bar was?
And I like the spotties too - what's the details of these?

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I wil try and get soem better photos.

I do not knwo the brand of the bar , but it is ld. Off a series III I think. It required only a very minor mod to fit, one bottom bracket had to be moved out by 5mm.

The lights are Ironman HIDs, which have been on special recently. Abotu $700-900 per pair and are great. But I have fitted HID H4s into the main lamps and HID H9 into the Aux high beams as well. I have lots of light.

A benefit fo HID is the low current draw.

Tony

I picked up an old cow catcher bull bar. On lining it up to my TD5 2001 it catches the two small "tag" bulges on the side of the horns joining the top to the bottom on both sides.

The "tags" look to be small braces joining the lower horn to upper chaise. they’d be about 1" wide and look like they've been crushed causing a bulge and then welded to the top chaise rail.

I was thinking of just cutting the outside ones off which would allow the bar to slide on.

But I'd like to know what they do as they must have been put there for a reason

I know a it's a terrible description but if anyone has any thoughts it would be most appreciated