Thread: D5 winch

As the D5 doesn't have a full chassis I am wondering how you would fit a winch bar or bullbar to so that the front end didn't collapse on impact?

Down the bottom of this article is a shot of a winch fitted to a factory journalist test-drive car, so LR at least have done and obviously condone it.
Bullbars? Well, if there's something solid enough under there for a winch mount...

* search "the-2017-land-rover-discovery-is-a-slick-family-hauler" cos the link doesn't paste at all well...

I don't understand the obsession with bullbars. My family are farmers and not one of our vehicles have ever had a bullbar, and I'm talking about every vehicle that's ever been on the farm. A couple of my brothers' work cars have had them, but they came already fitted. Friends of mine who have a station up near Broken Hill also don't use them. So why do I see so many 4WDs with bullbars driving around the city? If you do need a winch, they can be fitted without a bullbar - LR actually have them as an option, like the D5 prototype in the article.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

I don't understand the obsession with bullbars. My family are farmers and not one of our vehicles have ever had a bullbar, and I'm talking about every vehicle that's ever been on the farm. A couple of my brothers' work cars have had them, but they came already fitted. Friends of mine who have a station up near Broken Hill also don't use them. So why do I see so many 4WDs with bullbars driving around the city? If you do need a winch, they can be fitted without a bullbar - LR actually have them as an option, like the D5 prototype in the article.

You're very lucky then.

I ran a family cattle property for a number of years and I lost count of the roo strikes with the Defender. It was in the scores.
The ex's GU Patrol copped it's fair share, the FIL's brand new Citroen was only days old and one jump from an embankment onto it.
The GQ farm ute bar was used to nudge the odd recalcitrant bull too.

And please don't say "slow down", the majority of hits occurred with me traveling at 50km/h or less.

When you've lived and worked in Skippy central, you like the security a bull bar brings.

Years ago I was in a mates car that had a few light roo strikes while travelling at walking pace when we got caught in a roo herd crossing the road. The old XB ute took it pretty well.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

I don't understand the obsession with bullbars. My family are farmers and not one of our vehicles have ever had a bullbar, and I'm talking about every vehicle that's ever been on the farm. A couple of my brothers' work cars have had them, but they came already fitted. Friends of mine who have a station up near Broken Hill also don't use them. So why do I see so many 4WDs with bullbars driving around the city? If you do need a winch, they can be fitted without a bullbar - LR actually have them as an option, like the D5 prototype in the article.

If you have ever hit a cow or a decent roo without a bullbar then you will understand why many of us have these fitted

I forgot to add, now living and working in Canberra the number of roos seen hit here weekly in an urban environment is astonishing.
I usually see at least one a week dead on State Circle, this is the road that rings Parliament House, and I've seen traffic stopped a number of times there to allow a mob to cross the road.
There's at least a few a week hit on the Parkway, and you usually see the car that has collected them to as it's unable to be driven.

Hell, there was a video posted only a few months back as one hopped across the bridge over the lake on Commonwealth Ave!

[Edit] I'd rather not fit one, they weigh too much, hurt the on road dynamics and spill they looks of the Disco, but as I like to travel and get home without the help of a tilt tray I'll fit one, and a new one is being fitted in the next few weeks, the current one is a bit sad after a recent hit.
They are insurance.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

I don't understand the obsession with bullbars. My family are farmers and not one of our vehicles have ever had a bullbar, and I'm talking about every vehicle that's ever been on the farm. A couple of my brothers' work cars have had them, but they came already fitted. Friends of mine who have a station up near Broken Hill also don't use them. So why do I see so many 4WDs with bullbars driving around the city? If you do need a winch, they can be fitted without a bullbar - LR actually have them as an option, like the D5 prototype in the article.

I live 40 k from the Melb CBD. Just last week I had a very near miss with a fallow deer about the size of a pony. Do you reckon the car would have survived that if I'd hit it at 80?