Thread: Bull Bars for D4 HSE

Hi Ron,
Try the Opposite Lock bar. I have had one fitted to my SE.
Not sure about the HSE. Worth a call to them.
Cheers, Craig

Originally Posted by Disco4SE

Hi Ron,
Try the Opposite Lock bar. I have had one fitted to my SE.
Not sure about the HSE. Worth a call to them.
Cheers, Craig

Hi Craig, I just rang them and they're going to get back to me. They were raving about your setup though and said that they were going to put the pictures of the bar fitted to your car up on their revamped website - your car is going to be famous.

By the way, I did the LR factory tour about a month ago. I asked them your question and they said they fitted 19 inch rims to the vehicle to increase vehicle height for rough terrain. Go figure...

Regards, Ron

Nothing like answering my own questions...

Just got off the phone to OL and they say a bar specifically designed for the D4 HSE with camera and parking sensor provision will be available in the new year, probably late January or early February.

So for HSE it looks like the following options are available:

ECB - yes
ARB - never
Opposite Lock - soon

Ron

your too fast Ron.

I was going to say the hse bar will be different because of the need for cameras and perhaps parking sensors.

In the D3 the arb bar is also only for the diesel variety but then I have seen (and driven) a v8 with the arb bar... and there has also been plenty of debate on here about fitting the bar to the d3 v8.

I guess the old saying goes where there is a will there is a way.

Originally Posted by trobbo

your too fast Ron.

I was going to say the hse bar will be different because of the need for cameras and perhaps parking sensors.

In the D3 the arb bar is also only for the diesel variety but then I have seen (and driven) a v8 with the arb bar... and there has also been plenty of debate on here about fitting the bar to the d3 v8.

I guess the old saying goes where there is a will there is a way.

Thanks Trobbo,

I discussed "modifying" the ARB bar to suit the HSE with the guy from ARB, but he said his boss wouldn't be interested. Understandable of course. I'm sure fitting them to a vehicle that ARB specifically says they won't fit would cause all sorts of legal issues. I once had a car stolen and written off and the insurance company tried all sorts of things to worm out of payment - I can only imagine what the insurance company wold do if a non-standard bar was fitted to a vehicle.

Ron

Originally Posted by Watpub

Hi Craig, I just rang them and they're going to get back to me. They were raving about your setup though and said that they were going to put the pictures of the bar fitted to your car up on their revamped website - your car is going to be famous.

By the way, I did the LR factory tour about a month ago. I asked them your question and they said they fitted 19 inch rims to the vehicle to increase vehicle height for rough terrain. Go figure...

Regards, Ron

Hi Ron,
Sounds like my D4 will be up in lights. It will look even better by tomorrow afternoon as I am having it colour coded. They are also filling in some of the holes in the horizontal flat section in front of the grill.
Will post some before and after photos once it is done.

Land Rovers answers to the 19" rims sounds a bit sus.

Re: Your choice of bar. It sounds like a wait until January for the OL bar or go for the ECB which looks like it has just returned from a 'Buck Tooth' convention!

Cheers, Craig