Thread: New Bullbar on my defender

Originally Posted by Tombie2

ARB will take a 15k winch.

ARB has a 1 piece hoop too, not 3 separate pieces across the top there. So is stronger in that area.

I've taken out 17 roos with the ARB on mine... Only #17 damaged the bar (vehicle 100% ok) and she was 5'6" at 100km/h

Bars will collapse backwards if hit right up high... (physics)

Barwork is only meant to keep you running though, deflecting roos (like I often do) is not their primary purpose (they're a save u once kinda thing) like your disco did...

TJM on discos the bars fold like mad, a good friend with a D2 had his bar crush the body work in a fender bender at 10km/h

TJM side rails have been successfully fitted to ARB bars.

Tombie,

I asked ARB if the TJM rails would fit and they said no. I am not saying it has not been done or is not possible, but surely seeing as they can't provide rails they would advertise that the TJM ones would fit.

I actually found ARB to be very unhelpful, they had no interest in anything to do with a defender were as TJM the complete opposite.
Maybe that was just the ARB store I went to.

Just ordered the smoked indicators of EBAY, cost including postage from the UK $35

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Rumour is true - ARB are to re design the Defender bar but still in developement faze and will not be released for several months.

Originally Posted by PBob

Rumour is true - ARB are to re design the Defender bar but still in developement faze and will not be released for several months.

Questions is do you want to wait, this rumor was around in August last year when I ordered my defender.

Story came from ARB and is correct (Don't know about the time factor) " some months" was the answer.

Originally Posted by PBob

Story came from ARB and is correct (Don't know about the time factor) " some months" was the answer.

Did the story come from an ARB store or ARB head office???

ARB head office.

Had an ARB wich bar fitted about 6 weeks ago. It was going onto an SVX so it had to be modified.

Michael, at ARB (recreational Car Acessories, Gosford) was very very helpfull, I asked him about the rumoured "New" ARB bar for the Defender, as I was hoping that it would not need to be modified.

ARB head Office sale said - No New Bar, sales cannot justify production and the model (current defender shape) is about to end.

Had to wait 9 weeks for new shipment. I dont think they are localy made any more.

Originally Posted by Drover

ARB (recreational Car Acessories, Gosford).

According to the records I got with the car they were the ones that fitted the ally bar directly to the steel chassis on my County for the previous owner.