Thread: Dilemma, Which Bull Bar.

Well.
Depends what you want it for really.
Spot to stick a winch/spotties? Sahara bar. Looks the mutts nuts and it does the job nicely.
Frontal protection? Deluxe winch bar. Particularly with those pretty update headlights being something like $400 a pop, madness not to cover them IMHO.
Both will store a winch excellently, and both will stop skippy putting his face through your radiator, but for protection you can't beat ARB full bars.
Cheers
Muppet

I'd really like a colour coded Sahara bar for our D2a, that would be my pick just on looks alone.

Sahara for looks.

ARB for protection.

xRox for rugged looks.

All hold a winch the same. I'd have a Sahara if the price were substantially better but it's exxy.

Sahara for me . Looks fantastic But if your going to be doing a lot of outback driving them probably the Deluxe for protection

As everyone said, Sahara for looks, Deluxe for protection.
Either will look great in silver.

Over the years I had different Landys .
I see a Roo bar as the name suggests : a ROO stopper.
Unfortunately enough hit a few over the years , every one stopped by the bar.
Once on Nw England Hwy cruising 80-90 k. Hit a massive one , my full wrap Alloy bar split on one side but the County was undamaged. Recently hit tow Roos in 5 minutes, the full wrap alloy bar of my Rangie stopped them with no damage. later that day heard a story of a bloke with alight show bar , hit a big Roo at 120 k , car was good for the wreckers.
Good luck choosing. Stay save !
Jacob

As others have said, if you are buying it mainly to mount your accessories it doesn't really matter, but if you are doing any significant country touring I would go the full bar.

Just spent two weeks driving in outback QLD and NSW and even though I avoided driving at dawn and dusk where I could, we had multiple near misses with big Roos, and a very close call with an Emu, as well as pigs, and livestock. Fortunately no actual contact but I was very glad of my full steel ARB bar, and wouldn't do it again without one.

There was one section of road where I swear there was a dead roo or other wildlife every 3- 10 meters for a couple of hundred kilometers.

I've never understood why the deluxe bar is not of the 'split pan' type where the Sahara is.

So based on that if you do alot of towing and keeping the engine temp down is a priority get the Sahara.

For me I will be getting a Deluxe bar, in ARB black for my silver D2a. Cost is a big reason, but why the Sahara looks good I'd rather spend less $$ and get better protection.

As for colour matching, while it looks good when undamaged scrapes will show, especially on a silver bar. Where as in black it will not be as noticeable.