Mack Bullbar on a 200 series

Gooday,
Yes, when I see those B&S utes etc with these monsters on, it would appear that many of the owners would not be saved by airbags anyway in the way they drive.
Cheers,
Boroma604.

Its very unlikley to be air-bag compatable, the only sidesteps that I know for a 200 that are compatable are the TJM ones.

Also, I believe the main issue is not lack of air-bag deployment but going off on small bumps/knocks . The rigid fixing to the vehicle transmits the impact and its interpreted as a hard knock and ... kaboom.

Cheers

Captain

If you lived in roo country you would want one too , " Tuff " bars and side rails are air bag compliant , biggest problem is the waiting list.

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Not pretty, but apparently legal.

Absolutely useless where any approach angle is important. You wouldn't even get half way up the Old Telegraph Track on Cape York. And for the Vic High places - Forget it.

I wonder how they would go on the deeply rutted desert tracks. Maybe bulldoze the center hump out of the way so that we can take our house cars there also!

Phil

That's the difference between city and country. City worries if their car might look 'cheap'. Country just wants the best bar for the job. If driving around between dusk and dawn is on the cards, then a decent bar is a must. Try hitting a pig with an arb bar and see what it does to the running gear, and your Mrs who's driving the kids back from the school fete - hence the low deflectors.

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These bars IMHO are what give Bull Bars a bad name, gotta be the most user unfriendly bar ava...............
And there is nothing wrong with "normal" type of bull bars in roo country either.

Since the anti bull bar mob came out of the woodwork, this company has gone absolutely gang busters, so much publicity, and so it continues

Some of their bullbars are ridiculously oversized, most common on commodores and falcons ute's mainly, and are EXPENSIVE, but no company in their right mind would built stuff that SOME say doesn't look right, unless there was demand for that product, believe me, plenty are buying, plenty are waiting, plenty are PAYING knowing what they are getting,


Not pratical in the VHC, Cape york, Canning or Simpson prehaps, but most of these bullbar owners have no intention of going to these places, besides most of these bullbars will probably end up on 2WD utes that don't get too close to pedestrians, but often get close to wildlife.

Horses for courses,


Shane
PS I wouldn't get one myself, simply doesn't meet MY needs

Any body notice the number plate?
To me it indicates a company car (Tuff bullbars) displaying their work and what they can do. Would most likely never be driven much off the tarmac. I have seen similar company vehicles, at various different functions, displaying their work.

Its toooooooooo clean to be a REAL 4b anyway.

Must have a Toorak address.

They look heavy to me. Everyone to their own I guess. All that picture is missing is low profile tyres.

That's not a Mack Bullbar.

THIS IS A MACK BULLBAR and it's not 5 poster.

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In fact I don't think I've ever seen a 5 poster bar on trucks.

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I agree it is bars like that in the photo that give professionally designed, legal and air bag compliant bull bars and 4WD's and their owners in general a bad name and draws unwanted attention to the "No 4WD's in the city" and "No bullbars" debate. Anyone who lives in the "real outback" would not have a bar anything like that one and as most know in thickly infested roo country you just do not drive at night unless it is your profession or an absolute emergency. In the latter case you then drive according to the conditions. 90% of B&S V8 Mongrel Utes would not last 10 minutes in the real bush with their illegal side marker lamps, external cabin lamps, Mack bulldog emblem, white aerials in each corner, illegal imitation rego plates such as Bundy Girl, Rum Pig, etc, RM Williams mudflaps so low they spray following vehicles with road debris every time they contact the road, oh yes and best of all the aluminium side mud spats attached to the rocker panel below the door that should you hit someone and the 5 poster illegal bullbar does not kill you then the sharp edges on the mud spats will slice you open like a scalpel spilling someones guts all over the road. But thats OK cos we need all that stuff in the bush. I say B-S. Passenger vehicles are actually designed to minimise the injuries caused to pedestrians should one ever be hit and bars like that stuff up completely the design criteria that it is preferable to break the legs rather than break a persons back which in most cases will destine them to be wheel chair bound for life. I agree with the comments re the affect on geometric visibility and that bar fails to follow the designed body lines of the vehicle and exceeds the bonnet height.
If it looks like it should be on a Kenworth, then it probably should be on a Kenworth. (Apologies to Kenworth)

Where does the winch go?

Phil