Thread: ARB Bar Discovery II

That's interesting. I had an ARB bar on my 2001 D2 and it had the recovery eyes (although ARB will tell you that these should not be used for snatch recoveries!)

I fitted a set of recovery points sourced from ARB in WA. These are bolted directly to the chassis rails and great for most straught line recoveries. Angled recoveries require a bit more caution as heavy loads can bend the points.

Cheers,

Franz

Franz

You beat me to it

I got my bar from ARB in Perth and they also fitted those recovery points.

I guess the airbag causes some extra cost but you wouldn't want to be without them.

Particulary after seeing the staged crash between a disco and renault people mover the other day on TV, though sadly in this case the airbags failed to go off and disco looked pretty shabby afterwards

DO NOT FIT RECOVERY POINTS TO THE BULLBAR OF A DII, otherwise you'll set the airbags off when doing a recovery, this goes for any bullbar ARB or others

Fit recovery points behind the crush cans or use the standard one

Baz.

Originally Posted by Redback

DO NOT FIT RECOVERY POINTS TO THE BULLBAR OF A DII, otherwise you'll set the airbags off when doing a recovery, this goes for any bullbar ARB or others

Fit recovery points behind the crush cans or use the standard one

Baz.

Don't doubt what you say for one min, just curious that's all......

On a D1 they had either two sensors on the chassis or two sensors or a single point sensor on later models VIN 198222 on and 528977 on

On the D2 the single sensor is on the transmission tunnel near the handbreak........

Crush cans I can find nothing on those either for D1, or D2 - I have no idea what they are or what they look like.........

.........but my question is if the sensor on the D2 is on the tunnel near the handbreak - why would it matter where the recovery points are fitted.

As I say I am sure you are correct in you point - just trying to grasp why

Originally Posted by Redback

DO NOT FIT RECOVERY POINTS TO THE BULLBAR OF A DII, otherwise you'll set the airbags off when doing a recovery, this goes for any bullbar ARB or others

How can the airbags be triggered ?
The Disco II only relies on a decellerometer mounted under the centre console to trigger the airbags.

Originally Posted by Scouse

How can the airbags be triggered ?
The Disco II only relies on a decellerometer mounted under the centre console to trigger the airbags.

Yes that's right....I think. Also you will notice that the crush cans on the D2 are very small especially compared to some other makes of 4wd. I suspect that you could snatch off the bullbar of the D2........however, I would never do it, it's just too expensive to replace the airbags if they do go off.

For under $100 you can get a couple of good recovery points to attach to the chasis, the only hassle is if you have a steering protector fitted...but nothing an angle grinder won't fix.


BTW Hi Franz and welcome!

Originally Posted by Redback

DO NOT FIT RECOVERY POINTS TO THE BULLBAR OF A DII, otherwise you'll set the airbags off when doing a recovery, this goes for any bullbar ARB or others

Fit recovery points behind the crush cans or use the standard one

Baz.

Never had that issue....

Imagine a slip and grip situation with an ARB D2 and winch...

The jolt is worse than a snatch recovery...

Of which, neither have triggered anything on the D2 here.

You need this: http://www.yican.com.au/ADR/ADRMain.htm

See also http://www.yican.com.au/ADR/TechADR.html

Ron