Bullbar Alloy or Steel for Navara D40.??

Wazzbag,

have you checked out the Navara Forum? You'll probably will find a lot of the info you want there. I had the D22 and had all sorts of strife with the alloy bullbar compressing mounting bolts and inevitably shaking the chasis and cracking it. Details were in an earlier post here.

Cheers

Mick

If you want a bar for looks go Alloy, if you want a bar that works ...Steel.

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The Navara's are so thin that you do need a bar for frontal protection.

Steel is really heavy. If you are not going to mount a winch then I would go aluminium.

Wazzag

I had the Nissan alloy bar on my D40 but have since removed it and fitted an ARB winch bar and Magnum winch. The Nissan bar is only for show and is very weak with lousy mounting points. The ARB bar comes with very good mounting brackets to spread the load on the chassis very well with no cracking. I do have synthetic winch rope and alloy fairlead to try and cut the weight as much as possible though.
I have put TJM XJS suspension all round with 2" lift, the heavy springs in front and medium in rear which works quite well. Thought of using airbags as well, but do not like the way they put load on the chassis where it is not meant to go. But due to the problems had with the TJM shop I dealt with, I wont recommend their gear or use it again.

Chris

Go down to the ARB shop and lift up a steel bullbar - they're not that heavy - maybe 20kg

Don't waste your time with alloy, as there's no point to them.

I had a new steel bullbar put on by ARB 8 years ago and it's still like new. Obviously you want to avoid breaking the powder coated surface and keep it clean from oils etc.

If you are worried about weight, why not this model?

PeterD