Thread: Bull bar blitz: rural drivers fined

Originally Posted by Sprint

For all the people who think having a rearward sloping bar is a good thing..... I'm guessing you've never seen what happens when you hit a 'roo and it comes up over the bonnet?

Whether the bar is sloping forward or rearward has very little impact on whether a roo comes over the bonnet or not - it's more about how high the roo was off the ground when you hit him, relative to the front of your vehicle.

In other words, if the roo is "on the hop" and is fairly high off the ground when you hit him, there's a better chance of it coming over the bonnet regardless of the slope of your bar. If the roo is on the ground or crouched over when you hit it, to the extent that a forward sloping bar will push it down and under the vehicle, then it's highly unlikely that the roo would come over the bonnet even with a rearward sloping bar.

One of the first things that you learn about driving in the bush is that you should attempt to NEVER be hard on the brakes when you hit a roo. Brake as you approach the roo by all means, but if you realize that you are going to hit it, get off the brakes and if anything, accelerate - get the nose of the vehicle up as high as you can.

I've hit plenty of roos in vehicles with rearward sloping bars as defined by the Australian Standard, and have never had one even look like coming over the bonnet (emu's are a different story because of their higher centre of gravity - but again, the slope of a bar has little impact on where an emu is likely to end up). I have seen more than one vehicle that has had a roo come through the windscreen - and massive forward sloping bullbars have been installed.

I gave my bullbar another polish today

Cheers

Originally Posted by BMKal

should attempt to NEVER be hard on the brakes when you hit a roo. Brake as you approach the roo by all means, but if you realize that you are going to hit it, get off the brakes and if anything, accelerate - get the nose of the vehicle up as high as you can.

We are talking about Landrovers here. Jumping on the go pedal will not make the nose any higher.

Originally Posted by d2dave

We are talking about Landrovers here. Jumping on the go pedal will not make the nose any higher.

Haven't got your Td5 remapped yet have you Dave

Originally Posted by ozscott

I gave my bullbar another polish today

Cheers

That's a bit racist, picking out a person from a minority!

Ozscott, Your bullbar, it speak with ze german accent, Ja?

so question

this has no efect on my 85 county and my old forward leaning bar?? correct tjm i think

Originally Posted by d2dave

We are talking about Landrovers here. Jumping on the go pedal will not make the nose any higher.

And not just the lack of power. The front link design on coil sprung LR RRC and Discos has anti lift built into it... add a spring lift and the anti lift increases a fair bit....