Bullbar

I am just wondering if you can fit another landrover bullbar to the freelander 2 please

Claire mccurley said:

I am just wondering if you can fit another landrover bullbar to the freelander 2 please

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What do you mean another? Is there one on there already? LR had a plastic bar (more a cosmetic design) as an option, which is the only bar LR could fit, as it's compliant with pedestrian impact tests. You can fit whatever aftermarket bar you fancy, as long as you're happy with any potential issues that may arise from a non compliant bar should a pedestrian hit it.

Nodge68 said:

What do you mean another? Is there one on there already? LR had a plastic bar (more a cosmetic design) as an option, which is the only bar LR could fit, as it's compliant with pedestrian impact tests. You can fit whatever aftermarket bar you fancy, as long as you're happy with any potential issues that may arise from a non compliant bar should a pedestrian hit it.

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I was thinking of another landrover one like rangerover sport

Claire mccurley said:

I was thinking of another landrover one like rangerover sport

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Ah. No. Only a bar made for your vehicle will fit. A RRS is a very different animal to a Freelander 2, the only common items are the bag hooks, nothing else is the same.

Are right ok just struggling to get bullbar for freelander 2 that's all, thank you

Claire mccurley said:

Are right ok just struggling to get bullbar for freelander 2 that's all, thank you

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The problem is there's actually nowhere to mount a bullbar. It's not got a separate chassis like the larger LRs, and the front subframe while very sturdy, doesn't have any suitable "hard points" for attaching a bullbar too.
LR offered a plastic cosmetic bar of sorts, but that's pretty much the only one that fits, as it simply fixes to the bumper shell.

Looks like it is possible. But rare and little choice.

300bhp/ton said:

Looks like it is possible. But rare and little choice.

Bull Bar for Freelander 2

Hi, We have a Freelander 2 SE, and on the whole have been pretty happy with it. We now live on a property west of Roma and wanted to put a bull bar on. The Land Rover dealer in Toowoomba said they cou

www.aulro.com

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That's not a Bull Bar, that's a Roo Bar.

Unlike most places, where bull bars are just for taking out school kids that run out into the road, roo bars are actually used to minimise an impact with a Roo (not for the Roo). Roo impacts are common occurrences in Aus.

GrumpyGel said:

That's not a Bull Bar, that's a Roo Bar.

Unlike most places, where bull bars are just for taking out school kids that run out into the road, roo bars are actually used to minimise an impact with a Roo (not for the Roo). Roo impacts are common occurrences in Aus.

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I'd image if you ran a poll on here 98-99% of people would say that was a bull bar. The thread I linked to even says 'bull bar'....

Monstrosity Bar I'd call it !!

andyfreelandy said:

Monstrosity Bar I'd call it !!

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Indeed, but it's there for a purpose. It's mounted to the bumper crash beam behind the bumper shell, and requires huge holes cut into the bumper shell to mount it too.
I don't think it'll actually provide much protection against a 50kg Roo at speed, as the Freelander front is designed to absorb impacts into the crumple zones, but at slow speeds it might be useful to "nudge" one out the way.

300bhp/ton said:

I'd image if you ran a poll on here 98-99% of people would say that was a bull bar. The thread I linked to even says 'bull bar'....

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The link was to aulro and most people there would refer to it as a roo bar.

This is an interesting read (not just the bits I've copied)....

Bull bar or roo bar for 4WDs

At the outset it needs to be said that a ‘bull bar’ on a 4WD is no such thing – it’s at best a ‘roo bar. If you’re unlucky enough to hit a scrub bull one dark night when your lights aren’t working you’ll discover – if you survive – the immovability of such beasts.

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An emu or kangaroo strike at the front of your 4WD can damage your air conditioning condenser, oil cooler, radiator and lights, and finish your trip right there.

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In 40 years of bush driving we’ve never run into a kangaroo. How come? We avoid driving in ‘roo areas at dusk or after dark – that’s how. We’re camped by then.


On one memorable occasion we did have to drive the Barrier Highway horror stretch at night, between Yunta and Broken Hill, so we did it at 70 km/h, with the spotties on and with our eyes hanging out like organ stops.


Yep, it was a slow trip, but we managed to thread our way around the flying ‘roos, while the bloke in the truck that overtook us several times at 110 km/h managed to hit plenty.


We passed him every time he stopped to pull mashed roo out of his bull bar and from underneath his tanks and axles, and we arrived at The Hill the same time he did. And we didn’t have a stoved-in grille, a busted headlight and dislodged brake lines.


And yes, he does refer to them as bull bars in the summary.

They might be referred to as a bull bar, but hitting a 1 ton plus bull is going too destroy the vehicle, just as well as running into a tree or wall, bar or no bar.
To me a roo bar is a much more accurate description, as there's a chance it's lower mass will do less damage to the vehicle the bar is attached too. However simply driving slower when there are wild animals about is the best option.

Many years age, I got a call out to recover a vehicle that had hit a badger at speed. When I arrived, the front nearside of the Citroën Saxo was destroyed, even the wheel was detached and on its side under the middle of the car.
The badger was still in the road at the impact point. After I'd got the car on the truck bed, I picked up all the debris from the road, and moved the badger to the hedgerow. It was surprisingly good condition (it was dead) considering how much damage it had done to the car, but a badger is basically a 25kg lump of muscle, which can do a lot of damage if hit at speed.

I've been to several cars that have hit deer over the years too, the vehicles are almost always written off due to enormous amounts of damage. I've actually hit a deer myself too, but I was able to slow down to just a crawl at impact, which pushed the deer over, but before I could even got out the car, it was on its legs again and off over the hedge. There wasn't any damage on the front of my D3 thankfully.