Thread: D4 Landrover Bull Bar - latest news

Black on black looks ok to me.

Originally Posted by drowell

The issue of bling on the D4 depends on what options you get I guess. I bought mine in Bournville and have all colour coded or black accessories. I guess I don't follow current fashion. I do like style, but my choice not what the world dictates. To each their own eh?
I went for the black rock sliders instead of the s/s ones.

You are also in current fashion.
Ford here has a decal option that tries to emulate mud - big splash type decals along both sides of a new pickup - other options include the full sized chrome grill, and on an F250, it is like the House of Mirrors approaching. Ford calls their mud decals option, "Digital Mud". I do not think that option is available yet thru Land Rover America.

Spoke to the dealer today to get a price on the LR bar and see if it was winch compatible.
He hasn't got a final price yet and he hasn't had confirmation that it is/isn't winch compatable, however he thinks it isn't.
Cheers,
Peter

Im with you Mike, its a latte bar. You quote is especially pertinent:
'Definitely styled by the designer of the Prado factory bar!'

Just this week one of the work playdoes with factory alloy bar punted skippy. We only have lil skippy up here.
Body hit to the front left, just below headlight. Alloy folded, headlight loops caved back and took out bonnet, left guard and light. The folded corner took out the tyre and rim.

If it had just a factory bumper probably would have folded, skip woulda gone under tyre and all would be good... maybe a plastic bumper.

If it had a steel bar, skippy would have a headache and playdoe might have shuddered.

I guess at least there is now one less 4wd camry on the road? The point about insurance covering damage is pretty irrelevant if a 30kg skippy ruins your holiday to the Cape?

Steve

I agree with Mike and Steve, and I've had more roo hits than I care to count, and before anyone says they've travelled country roads for years without a hit, well, you are just lucky.

We had a hit in SWMBO's old GQ about fifteen years ago that almost left us undriveable. It was a very similar situation to the Playdo Steve mentioned.

The ARB bar on the Defender has had hits with Eastern greys up to a genuine 85-90km/h impact speed.
Scared the begeezus out of me with the shock that went through the car, I thought I'd be stuck but all that happened was a mangled numberplate and bashed steering damper when he/she went underneath. (and I checked the chassis too, it was a big hit)

Our GU Patrol with it's aluminium bull bar hasn't faired so well, it's stoved in in about four places across the front ATM, and I've pulled a couple of big ones out.

It was supposed to come with a steel BB but it's SWMBO vehicle and she wanted the bling one.
She understood after the first hit why I wanted the steel bar, particularly as where we lived was roo/wallaby central, they would even run into the side of your car when only travelling at 30km/h .

Let me just say I think I wish I could afford a D4. I wouldn't be too worried about the bull bar.

Just to make the point even more... have a look at the steel bar pictured by Drowell 12 posts above. Good spacing from guard and bonnet. Compare that with the LR alloy offering.

Firstly the steel will take a hit and not actually bend... second it would have to bend a bloody long way to take out panels.

That LR bar would punt a baby skip, push the ally hoops back into the panel work - There would be more damage than with no bar. That in my mind makes it a liability.

Im sure the Dwhatever has awesome brakes with ABS and cruise control? These are 10X more effective at preventing damage from animal strike than a piece of shiny Al.

peace,
Steve

Trouble is that LR assume people aren't using D4s offroad and they might be correct in 95% of cases, us on the other hand do and will be using ours offroad, probably not as extreme as we did in the D2 but still most of what we did (eg) I wouldn't hesitate to do Heartbreak Hill at Sunny Corner that we did in the D2 last weekend.

So that factory bar for us is useless, it's fine for shopping trolley strikes useless for roo strikes

Baz.