Thread: Bull Bars/Nudge Bars for D4s

Originally Posted by Watpub

Admiral, I actually by-passed the dealers and went straight to ARB's head office. The guy there informed me that it would be "next month" - which I presume to mean May. I'm a bit peeved that they could bring out a bull bar for the new Prado earlier than the D4 - the D4's been on the market longer than the Prado has.
Regards, Ron

I will try again based on that !

Hi all,

Just an update on ARB's bull bar for the D4... I thought I'd also try emailing them to see if I could get an official date in writing. Here is the response I received:

"Hi Ron
At the moment the bar for the discovery 4 is still in its design stage, our engineers here at kilsyth work by the principle that its better to take your time and have a better product than to rush and make compromises. They also don’t like to give any sort of timeline as to when it will be ready which does make it hard for us to give our customers a estimate o when the bar will be ready. As to the price it will not be known till the bar has gone through production and can be assesed to how much it will cost. As a rough estimate the bar for the discovery 3 costs $2099.
If you have any questions just give me a call."

I took up the offer and called them. The guy was reluctant to commit to a date. When I told him I was taking delivery of my vehicle in late June he thought that it was unlikely that the bar would be ready by then, and that we wouldn't probably see it until later in the year. This contradicts what I was told when I rang last week.

He also told me that they tried to fit a D3 bar to a D4 and it wouldn't work. I didn't press him as to why - presumably the mounting points have changed???

I also sent an email request to TJM earlier this week and thus far have heard diddly-squat!

Ron

Yikes!! That is horrible news! If it's "better to take your time and have a better product" how come the new Prado bar appeared so quickly? Makes me glad I haven't got one, considering what a rush it must have been... But that's probably just sour grapes too.

Originally Posted by Jesse B

Yikes!! That is horrible news! If it's "better to take your time and have a better product" how come the new Prado bar appeared so quickly? Makes me glad I haven't got one, considering what a rush it must have been... But that's probably just sour grapes too.

Given all of the safety recalls by Toyota of late maybe ARB figured it didn't matter if the bar wasn't up to par for the Prado!. Ooh, bitchy...

Truth be known it was probably a direct fit from the previous model.

This isn't getting any better. The first to market is going to make a killing! I don't see any other options either. There certainly won't be anything coming out of Europe. We really have this market cornered in Oz.

Hi Guys,

I suspect that the reason that 'they' produced a Prado bar more quickly is that they can sell many more Prado bars. Economies of scale I guess.

I too am waiting for a D4 bar. I have an D4 HSE on order (ETA June) with the optional surround camera system. I suspect that the new bar when it eventually arrives will be no good for the front cameras and sensors. I think I'll miss out anyway.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to where to mount a UHF aerial in the absence of a bull bar?

Cheers

George

Originally Posted by ADMIRAL

This isn't getting any better. The first to market is going to make a killing! I don't see any other options either. There certainly won't be anything coming out of Europe. We really have this market cornered in Oz.

Not really because the market isn't all that big. The Prado 150 market is much larger.

George,

I used a glass mount antenna from Time Plus communication in Brunswick.

I am happy with its performance.

Regards

Chuck