A-Bar / Bull bar??? (for Defender 110 CSW)

I’ve been keen to buy an A-Bar for my Defender 110 CSW, but am wondering if these bars are mainly just cosmetic and mainly useful for putting extra lights on.

I’d thought that an A-bar would offer some protection in the case of a lightish front-end bump, but maybe they’re not very useful.

I wonder if a bull bar would be better, but in fact don’t need the headlight protection that these usually offer, as I already have strong “farmer’s gate” –type light protectors.

I am overseas where legal issues are not a problem.

Any thoughts on this?

put a bull bar on and then ring your insurance company and tell them and see how it affects your premium..

i had a t4 transporter £300 fully comp put a wrap around bull bar on premium then £694

there explaination at lower speed impacts i would cause more damage to the vehicle i hit so the repair claims would be higher,took it off and sold it.

abars are different and they will offer no protection in an impact

you want protection in a front end smash buy a winch / HD bumper it will destroy watever it hits. A bars are a compromise between killing pedestrians and protecting your front end.