Prado bullbar rattle

Hi Steve,
when I bought the Prado. I had the Toyota to have bullbar fiited prior to taking delivery along with other ARB accessories.

Regards
Steve

Sorry, it was a new car.

Hi there Steve, thats what I was getting to. So really is it the bullbar or some thing else as you didnt drive it prior to the bullbar being fitted, maybe some thing totally different not involving bullbar maybe a suspension issue. Might be looking in the wrong direction. Not been sarcastic towards you just saying that if you didnt drive vehicle prior to buying it then maybe even changing from bumper bar to bullbar has nothing to do with the noise you can hear or feel. Maybe suspension component. Just athought thats all.Hope you find it nothing worse then a noise or some thing you can feel but dont know where its coming from. I'm having the same issue at the moment with a thump in the rear of my prado still havnt found whats causing it.Regards Steve M

Thanks Steve for your suggestions, I have the car going into ARB next week to have my compressor fitted under the bonnet and I will get them to have another look and also check the suspension. I have a mate that had a rattle on his prado for the last 2 years and he finally found that one of his headlights was slightly loose. I have checked mine but they are ok,as you say it's frustrating when you have a noise and you cant find it.

Have a good day

Regards
Steve

Hiab, your a jerk go and play with your ipod.

why? bolts never slacken? nuts dont vibrate loose? bullbars dont move about and elongate the holes? recently hit something? wallaby, roo, cat(extra points if you say yes to cat)

The bars ARB made a couple of years ago have changed to recently, The older one's say over 2 years old never did vibrate as much as the new bars do.

I have heard ARB have had a lot of complains about there new bars. made the Lcool Prado forums can help you more.

Hi there Patrol, was actually talking to a mate the other day with current model prado and new arb bull bar, turns out its not the bar moving about as its bolted as we all know to the chassis rails turns out to be the body itself shaking about on the rubber mounts. You dont notice it without bar on cause nothing there in front of you to compare with but with bullbar sitting in front of you the bar is actually sitting still bolted to rails and its the body shaking around.Would take a while to get used to I 'd reckon. Regards Steve M

Stevep, i bought my Prado brand new 9 months ago and had a steel Toyota roobar fitted before i took delivery. When i took it off road onto a corrugated(spelling?) road there was a very bad clunking sound on every rut i hit. I took it back to Toyota and they told me that the alignment of the roobar when installed was not exact and was actually hitting the (passenger in mine) front quarter panel. I have since driven in far more extreme terrain never to have heard the noise again. The roobar movement does take some getting used too, i haven't driven off road at night but i would imagine that the spotlights would shake considerably maybe to the detriment of the driver.

Hi there life4orce. where you located ?? Regards Steve M

I'm near Wollongong heading off in morning 11 weeks
have been explore ozing for about 6 months just never had a chat on the forum. Will be in innamincka some time in the next few days after that, North and see what happens. Got wife, boy 4 , and girl on the way (5 months in the belly so hope the corrugations are not too bad) thought we better get going while we've got the chance. So If you are along by the Cooper this weekend you shouldn't miss us.
See ya when I get back

Hi Life4orce,

I was speaking to someone that had the same problem with suspension problem as you, He told me that he had to replace the shockies after 6 months because the factory fitted could not cope with the weight of a steel bullbar & winch.

Regards
Steve