Which Snorkel

I can only comment on the Safari snorkel I had fitted to the Colorado.
Excellent product and professionally installed by ARB.
After two years or so it still looks the same as when first installed. No fading, solid mounting and although on the driver's side, there is very little air noise from it.

I can certainly recommend the Safari snorkel.

Hi Carl,

I've got the Mazda snorkel on my BT50 which is the re-branded Airtec. It's been fine for the 4 1/2 years I've had the Mazda.

Cheers, Geoff

Hi Carl

When I was looking around for one for my Prado, I did like the look of the TJM Airtec snorkel, but from all the reports that I read, the Safari used a lot heavier product, with no customers complaining about damage caused by hard impacts with branches etc, where the reports from people that had the Airtec under similar situations, the plastic on the snorkel body had cracked.

I have hit my fair share of branches with my snorkel, and the only thing that has happened is lots of pin striping and a few cuts.

Either way, a snorkel is the very first thing I would now put on any new vehicle with the way the air intakes are located.

When I purchased mine, it was not for deep water crossings, but for getting clean air from dusty road into the air cleaner.




Cheers


Stephen

I would go the Safari. The more important issue is the snorkel should have a raised head. A lot of snorkels have the head sitting flat or tucked into the windscreen line.

On two occasions I have witnessed a vehicle going through water and finding a hole that caused a bonnet dive and the water came over the bonnet and ran up the windsceen side and into the snorkel.

Both times the vehicles engine stopped and were towed from the water.
When I bought my Nissan I refused the free Airtec snorkel for this reason.


Cheers Teza

hi carl
i would highly recommend safari i bought and fitted a safari snorkle to my mazda bravo and its never failed or run loose
it is coming up 15yrs old in july this year
so i think thats a fair test and its been on all types of roads and corregated bush tracks

no connections with the company or sales of their products
cheers barry

I have the TJM Airtec on my 200 after reports of reasonance noise at the 1200-2000rpm mark with the Safari. While Safari have bought out several "fixes" for the 200 snorkel, there are still reports of reasonance noise after the fix - but not all 200 owners with Safari snorkels seem to have this issue.

Point being, make sure you talk to BT50 owners with either brand of snorkel and make sure there isn't some form of issue with your particular model. Both brands are very good quality and it may get down to any potential specfic model issues.

Cheers

Captain

Carl
One advantage that the Safari has over the Airtec is that the Safari has a removable head, hence you can rotate it to face the back if needed or remove it and fit a pre cleaner type head. I fitted a Safrai to my Ranger for this reason.

Murray

This is an accessory you dont want to be cheap on....I have a Safari for over 4 years now and i do a lot of river crossings.its been brilliant and still looks newish....
I suggest you have it fitted too...


Avoid the cheapies on ebay....


Goodluck