Thread: Shu Roo?

I saw the result of hit at Eucla, about 1976. A 70s Statesman with a roo bar being towed in to the garage; unbelievable; the 'roo must've been called Mack or Kenworth.

The driver insisted it just a big 'roo...

Put anything on your car, if it helps...hopefully...

There are lots of cars around here with 'roo guard thingys and none of them are bent.....

GQ

Waste of time and money.

Having had a Shu Roo fitted to our Patrol from new (June'01) and having de-commissioned the useless piece of crap last year (after the umpteenth roo strike) I reckon I'm qualified to cast a vote on them. Yes, we live in the country, so dodging roo's and wallabies and cattle, sheep, etc are a daily occurance, hence the attractiveness of a Shoo Roo.
Interestingly the Defender has never had a shu roo fitted and roo strikes are about the same (still too many to count)

Your best protection is to slow down and have a steel bull bar up front and steel side rails.
I've pulled up in front of Swamp Wallabies, Eastern Greys and Red necked Wallabies switching it on and off and they didn't even blink.
Two even hopped towards the vehicle.

FWIW, and in the interests of balanced reporting, the FIL has had Shu Roo's fitted to at least three new Citroen's in the same period and swears by them, yet he's had a number of roo strikes driving the same roads and doesn't even drive at night, so go figure.

my missus is a wildlife carer and over the past 15 years i have had the displeasure of sharing my yard with a few dozen grey roos, and I can vouch for the fact that they are one of the stupidest animals on the planet as well as one of the most driven by hunger. No beeping noise is going to put them off that green pick on the road side, and also the thing sounds like a cricket chirping, most roos would have heard that before??

Originally Posted by Jamo

Get a really good set of spotties if you are driving at night.

Good until you get oncoming traffic, then its almost darkness as the eyes adjust to low beam.

We travel interstate at night a lot to race, so I fitted a set of IPF 130w and when they are on not much jumps toward us, maybe they are too bright and they turn away. On low beam they jump straight towards us.

We did hit a wombat on Thunderbolts Way, luckily he just hit the diffs and trailer axle, wifey aimed and hit him square on and there was no damage. He was huge, took both of us to drag it off the road. I was worried someone would hit the body in the dark.

I bought some of those whistles for my road bike but haven't fitted them yet, I try to avoid riding at night.


Jeff

There was a univeristy study done a couple of years ago. They looked at the effects on tame roos, wild roos, they studied data on hits from vehicles with and without, they looked into truck statistics, you name they looked at it. End Result from the study....

They Dont Work.

Apparently they work for elephants though. A friend of mine hasn't had a single elephant jump out in front of him since he fitted one to his car.

my 5 c..

shoo roos dont work... fit a better bull bar..

hiclones MIGHT make a marginal improvement on an engine built before the concept of turbulance was worked out for induction systems

Electronic Rust protection works but needs to be used correctly 24/7 and will not help you if you have exposed edges or bimetalic contact. once you start to get rust they are useless, sort of like a condom, good while intact but essentially useless once broken.

Originally Posted by crump

I can vouch for the fact that they are one of the stupidest animals on the planet as well as one of the most driven by hunger.

Nope - Deer are stupider. We have 30 or 40 running around the back paddocks and they are dumber than sheep.