Thread: D4 Bull Bar from ECB

Originally Posted by Dorko

Very chunky... would look better without the top bars... do they do bull bars with the top bit?

I would like a bull bar on my D4, but i want it to look like a bumper, but tough.

Dorko

Look up the ARB Sahara bar. Has a full bumper , centre loop and will take a winch. Unfortunately it is only available for the D3. I guess it depends on how easy ARB can modify the top half of their planned D4 bar.

I have used ECB bars on other vehicles. They make a good bar and will usually colour code to suit. The steel winch cradle adds a fair bit of weight, and it would be interesting to compare the alloy ECB, to the steel ARB.

Personal taste, but I will still wait for the ARB bar. I think their 'square' design on the deluxe bar suits the lines of the Disco a little better.

Originally Posted by Graeme

I wonder why there is a rail across the centre where lights mount.

I would guess for strength. The ECB centre hoop and side wings go higher than the ARB bar. May not help with the looks but it does actually assist with an important factor, particularly if you have a wife shorter than average stature. Looking at the ECB bar, I would say it would very be easy to place the front of the vehicle......and I can advise from experience, this does count a lot for SWMBO. Prudent to consider all factors, before dismissing the ECB bar as an option.

Originally Posted by DiscoSaffa

I like the way they don't have to cut the wheel arch flares as they do with the ARB one.......

Me too and for a tourer retaining the flares wouldn't be the problem that it might be climbing rocky trails.

Not a great looking bar but good on them for even bringing one to market.

Looks like the top of it is visible from the driver's seat which I think is no longer permitted in some states. I'll have to check that.

I've got to admit that coming back to it a second time (and a second day) it's starting to grow on me.

I originally thought it looked ugly-duckling like, especially around the wheel arches and those bespectacled fog and indicator(?) lamp wells. But I now think it's good that a bar can be fitted without butchering any (much) body work (e.g. cutting the arches).

I suspect it will look much better when it is colour matched to a vehicle. Black on blue wouldn't necessarily be my first colour choice (apologies to anyone out there that has black on blue colouring ).

...And let's give these guys all the support and encouragement we can (even sales) because we've heard didly-squat except for vapour promises from ARB! Here ya go ECB, a big fat thumbs up from me

Regards, Ron

Originally Posted by rmp

Looks like the top of it is visible from the driver's seat which I think is no longer permitted in some states. I'll have to check that.

Interesting........ the top of my ARB bar on my D3 is definately visable from the drivers seat. Would be interested in what you dig up.....

Now about the 18 or 19 inch wheels.....

Originally Posted by DiscoSaffa

Interesting........ the top of my ARB bar on my D3 is definately visable from the drivers seat.

Depends what height your seat is set at and how tall you are.
Difficult to enforce that one.
I thought rule was nothing attached to be protruding above or in front of the bar?

I expect from a Kangaroo's point of view, the bar may look a little too brutal; and it does not look too EU friendly either, however it does look like it could do a lot better job than a bar that does not yet exist.

Over here in the "other" colony, Canada, our reality is deer and moose in the evenings. They feed on the salt we put on the roads to corrode vehicles of far eastern manufacture. Given however, that there are more domestic vehicles here than off shore built, probably the net sum is fewer domestic built vehicles.

In summary, the ECB bar to me looks no worse than what I see going on many of our domestic pickups - some of these fences look closer to cattle gates than beauty marks.

And to a Roo, the ECB would definitely not look like a vapor bar.