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  1. 1st November 2012, 12:00 PM #1
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    Help with bullbar purchase

    Hi all
    I have recently purchased my first disco ('97 man v8) and my family and I love it.
    I have been reading forums for awhile and found the info very helpful.
    We would like to fit a bullbar to ours but will have to wait and save some more coin for the steel, air bag and winch compatible, bar I would like to get. However I have an opportunity to perhaps purchase a cheap used tjm alloy bar that will tie me over for awhile but can not tell if it is airbag compatible just looking at it. (see attached pics.)
    I am hoping that somebody might know if this is any good for me as we do have front air bags and from what I have read I would not like to risk any safety or legal issues with the wrong bar.
    Any advise/help with this would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks in advance
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  2. 1st November 2012, 02:47 PM #2
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    An airbag compatible bar has "crush can" mounting brackets. The mounting brackets are "corrugated" for want of a better description, whereas the bar in your photo has plain flat sided mounting brackets.

    For a winch you also need a mounting bracket that fits between the chassis rails, and usually involves mounting the winch feet up, which is not a problem as you can rotate both gearbox and the motor to the required orientation. There is another recent thread concerning bull bars and their cost options.
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  3. 1st November 2012, 03:02 PM #3
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    Not sure if the D1 has crush cans (my old one didn't). Just had actuators/sensors mounted on the chassis rails for the airbags.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ivan View Post
    Not sure if the D1 has crush cans (my old one didn't). Just had actuators/sensors mounted on the chassis rails for the airbags.
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    Well, mine definitely has them. It also has an ARB "air bag compatible" bullbar which came from ARB with the crush cans attached.
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  5. 1st November 2012, 03:44 PM #5
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    It is also my understanding that air bag compatible bars have the corrugated chassis mounts. Happy to be corrected though.
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    Does TJM sell crush can replacements which you can adapt to the bar? (or the bar to the cans.)

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