Thread: ARB or TJM - Safari or Airflow ?????????

A lot of the decision for the front bar will be "what you like the look of".

But here are my comments. I have the ARB winch bar on my 04 Disco. I like the look of the ARB bar but if I did it all again I WOULD BUY THE TJM BAR.

My reasons are, the TJM bar has a better approach angle (you hit it less when off-road) and the TJM bar has the winch in a seperate cradle atached to the chasis. My problem with the ARB bar is that when winching it sometimes moves the bar because the winch is atached to the bar and on one occasion it pulled the front of the bar down & caused the rear side of the bar to crease a body panel.

As for snorkels, buy your snorkel direct from a Landrover dealer. For some reason snorkels (they are genuine safari snorkels with Land Rover written on them) are cheaper from a LR dealer than they are direct from Safari. From memory it should be around $380 from a dealer.

I never knew about the Land Rover snorkle. I went with the Safari for my Defender. Havnt' had a trouble in the world with it.

As for the bullbar, I have a genuine Land Rover Steel Winch Bar. But if Land Rover do not make one for yours, I can recommend the ARB product, as we use them for all of our RAAF vehicles.

Cheers
Chris

I've got the same series disco as you and have the ARB non-winch bar and Safari Snorkel fitted.

I guess I preferred the look and $ of the ARB bar and I made the choice not to get a winch as I have never needed one before and if I'm heading off somewhere where I'm likely to need one I'll be going with company.

I've no probs with the Safari snorkel and haven't any problems with wind noise but I have no experience with the Airflow units for comparison.

C'Mon Ace

Spill the beans

Vlad, aka The thread police is on to me so I need you to reply here.




Glen.

the safari snorkle was one of my better buys,,,
have not had to touch it in 5 years. ]


wind noise?
over the exhaust and stereo?
you're kidding right?

i must say i liek the look of the tjm winch bar and airtec snorkel on a d1 here a few pics of mine to help u make your decision i find teh airtec not to noisy but then again over the uhf and teh stereo i don't notice it at all


EDIT: just noticed the age of this thread :/

HI,
Why buy new?
I purchased second hand Safari unmarked for $250 from Triumph Rover Spares and a TJM bar from them for $500. Both unmarked and excellent.
Have just purchased the winch cradle from Ebay. All for under $1000.00

cheers
Piddler

I have recently bought a 98tdi airbag disco so pretty much in the same boat, the airbag bars are pretty exxy and i want a winch bar to fit my 8000lb ramsay to. The airflows look ok and nearly half the price of the safari's (bristish 4wd have them for $315 delivered).