Thread: Bullbar

In one word, no! Bloody amazing what some people charge for a few metres of tube and channel electrically glued together. Have a look on here, the Trading Post/Weekend Shopper/Quokka, & the E-bay stolen goods redistribution scheme.

For a Disco 3 bar thats prob a good price fitted.
Seeing they have Airbags and so forth...........

For a D3 bar there are only a few choices. The ARB one is expensive because it relocates a couple of things, and I believe has had to be crash tested. They are a good bar however to all accounts.

went the ARB route for me, same price, very expensive but it a no brainer given its engineering and compatability.

When I bought my D3 November last, one of the first things I checked out were bullbars. At the time, the only one available was from ARB. Although expensive, it suited me (as I had been VERY happy with my ARB bar on my D1).

Buy a good brand and you won't regret it.

Best Wishes,

ARB ones are good bars (thats been done to death) but the new ones are exxcy as they are

• airbag complient
• pedestrian impact compliant (for when you go on your muderous baby smashing tours through school zones at 120KPh in reverse drinking coffee with one hand and talking on a mobile phone with the other as all the sydney sider hug a tree groups make out we do)
• complient with the regs for not interfereing with the throw of the front lighting
• winch compatable (mostly havent seen the new d3 one up close and personal yet)

looking at the setup of the front end of the D3 and based on some older modles price ranges Id call $1800ish for a bar fair to middling on price but its worth it if you purchase some other stuff at the same time they are usually willing to come down on price a bit And if you get sneaky they did have a discount membership card. I worked it out after I haggled them down on a pirce for some lighting and electrical gear that with the cost of membership Id recoupe it all on the discount for the lighting gear alone. so get the membership card with a purchase of some middling cheap gear and then come back and buy the bar a week later.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

[*]pedestrian impact compliant (for when you go on your muderous baby smashing tours through school zones at 120KPh in reverse drinking coffee with one hand and talking on a mobile phone with the other as all the sydney sider hug a tree groups make out we do)

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

In one word, no! Bloody amazing what some people charge for a few metres of tube and channel electrically glued together. Have a look on here, the Trading Post/Weekend Shopper/Quokka, & the E-bay stolen goods redistribution scheme.

Brian, you need to look at the engineering involved in a modern bar. If you did you wouldn't have made this comment. Years ago you'd have been right, but now modern bars require various component relocation (the D3's washer bottle, for example is in the front guard), airbag compatibility engineering/testing, airflow checks, winch testing, regulations compliance and even careful styling. I have spent quite a bit of time with ARB going over their bar design process.

It is not just a few tubes welded together any more. That's where your money is going.

Also consider the market for D3 bars will be a lot smaller than say LC200s, so companies need to consider that when they set their margins. Yes, they could sell more bars at a lower price, but the amount sold won't vary much if the price was dropped to $1500 or increased to $2500, people either want a bar or they don't, and if they do they'll pay for the quality.