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If your going off road or if your stroll far from the city IMO bull bars are great to have. LR one over priced but that's what you would expect.
BM- just a guess, is the extra gap in your bar so that it can fit the winch behind it?
Captains chair is the best! So is the fact you can flip it up when needed, like some off road and city driving when you want to use the gears.
Congrats on your new rig Sollidisk post some photos when you get a chance.
What's Captains chair?
When I'm say captains chair I mean the seat with the flip up arm rest ( and extra adjustments like lumbar support) I think that is what others are referring to here, correct me if I'm wrong.
Hi,
The swing down armrests do get in the way a bit but on a long trip they work well. Will have a think about the bull bar - plenty of time as this disco is a keeper, well as long as the warranty:). The odo reads 400 so am trying to put some k's on before connecting to the van. Handbook doesn't mention anything about recommended minimum k's, so am thinking 1000 or so should be fine. Still with 600nm's the thing won't strain too much anyway!
No - the gap is just to allow a bit of "flex" when on rough roads, so that the wheel arch flares do not hit on top of the bar. On some installations, gap is quite small, on others a bit greater. I suppose it depends on the different installers and how much of the wheel arch flares they cut off during the install.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crimdog
I had previously thought that the OL bar installation looked a bit tidier than the ARB - but there's another post going on here at the moment that shows an OL bar with even larger gaps than I've got on mine - so again, it must just depend on the competence of the installers.
Sollidisc - my Disco will be floating around down your way in October. I'll be staying at South Arm, but travelling round a fair bit for a month or so. If you're near there and want to have a look at the ARB bar, give me a yell.
Ahhh I see BM, I was thinking of a different area, my bad. disappointing that it depends on the installer like that. Oh well.
What's your reasoning?Quote:
Originally Posted by BMKal
Heh Graeme,
About 7-8 years ago, I saw a winch on a Toyota 100 series alloy bar part way on a heavy winch. Me being a non engineering person I did not examine to see why it parted way.....but the bar did bend and crack.
Maybe BMKal has come across a similar experience ?
Brett....
My D2's alloy bar used a steel cradle bolted to the chassis rails so the bar material was irrelevant. I can't remember how my D4's winch-ready alloy ECB bar is setup so I'll have a look later.
I had a look at the Land Rover bar, no way that would protect anything, any decent animal strike and not only would the bar be stuffed but it would come back and damage the car also, to me it just looks like a giant brush/nudge bar.
This is what happens when an Opposite Lock bar meets an Emu at speed(about 70 or 80kph) and we had the camper on as well, IMO if we didn't have the OL bar on, that would have been our trip ended.
Never really had an issue with handling with the bar on, car drives fine.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
We have a bar fitted because we do alot of outback touring and we live semi rural, lots of Roo's, wild goats and Deer around our place, had a few near misses, deer are big buggers.
Baz.