Well it's official I'm being posted to the Back'o'Burke for work. Looking at adding a roo or nudge bar to help fend off any close encounters with the locals. Last thing I want is a roo shaped dent in my bonet, or half a cow sharing the cabin with me!

Any of you AMers added a bar to your magna before? If so can you post a pic and a cost?
I have to get one that still allows my Airbag to function properly.

Oh yeah adding fog lamps and spotlights too.

Dave

Additionally, any methods (apart from flyire) to protect my beast from locusts and the like. Don't want to splutter into Wudinna or Yalata looking very overheated!

www.arb.com.au

Ask for the catolog, when you get that, pick what you want and give me a yell, I'm currently getting a nudge bar and lights for my Mazda Tribute, my mate works there and he is doing a sweet job on price :)

Cool! Thanks mate! Downloading now!

This is what I want to do to my car peoplz! Stop all that nasty wildlife from ruining my ride!

<offtopic> Maybe booya should get a Gold one since he's outback! hehehe

Preacher,

Yeh i looking for a bar too, don't worry too much about the grasshopper/locusts they won't hurt too much and besides they've started to thin out - my radiators full of them but i stil lhave no probs. My opinion its just fuddy duddying around just puttin gauze or whatever on... cars are designed and built with australian conditions (ie bugs) in mind.

As for you goin to "back'o'bourke" for work, are you actually going to Bourke or are you just using that as a figure of speech? Reason I ask is that I am actually from Bourke myself, so lemme know if you are :)

Cheers
Axle

G'day Axel,
Opened up my air filter and found it full of bees!! Creep out factor.
I got a quote from ARB for $1095 for a airbag compliant full width and champhered (ie it wraps around the side indicators) bull bar with spot mounts. A little rich I reckon. I'm still looking around. The guys thought it funny I wanted a bull bar for a magna.

No not heading to Bourke, been there a few times with work - figure of speach only this time. For completely useless information one of teh areas I'll base myself in for a few days is called "No Were", and the official road is "Road to NoWhere"!! I'm basing myself in Port Lincoln, but will be there weekends only. I'm going to be driving through the Eyre Peninsula, From WA Border, Yalata, Gawler Ranges, Whyalla, and everything south. 13 000 km of road network to drive, document and report.

Dave

wow yeh thats a bit rich, I got the same - people laughing or asking twice re: bullbar for magna. But yeh if its gonna cost that much i don't think i'll bother really, i mean whats the excess for insurance if u hit something? $500 or sum'n like that?? So yeah, unless u drive heaps of a night u don't really have that much animal trouble so avoid nightime if ya can :) Altho i good set of spotlights do help :) I have no idea on which brands are better than others or whatever but yeh extra lights always help.

Axle

I just picked a a sweet set of Narva fog lamps - full on fog things not cosmetic ones - $149 for the pair. fits almost perfectly in to the bumper cutouts. I'll look at cosmetics later on ;) I'm looking at fitting either a nudge bar now, or just aplain old uni bar (sprayed to match the car of course) with two huge arse long range spotties too! Then it'll match the huge arsed areil that hangs off my boot for the UHF/VHF kit. Damn my once slightly sporty ride is a full on country cruiser!

too right cobba, fair crack of the whip


haha country people are funny (my mums side of the family is from kalgoorlie so i laugh at them)

TJM and ECB do bullbars and nudge bars for the Magna. They are alloy bars that retain the OE bumper. There are a couple of other bars available from other mobs but I can't remember who else does them.

Off topic but still on the same issue of preventing the 2 and 4 legged friends from landing on the bonnet.. My friend who lives in a farm in Geelong has this nifty high pitched sounding device on the front of his cars that irritates the animals.. maybe you can consider that?

CHEERS
Nick

All the reps. who travel up this way (Northern Victoria) have those on their cars,
and most have no bullbar.

Damned city slickers and their fancy gadgets!! :D

Problem is, after the first roo hits it they stop working............

*cringes at bad joke*

Hey people, that high pitched sounding device might annoy the animals yeah sure, but it also makes them MOVE which sometimes is the worst thing u want. Mostly of a night and the lights blind them - they stay there and don't move (mostly) and alot of the time u can half predict what they do. This also applies for daylight too - however with this sound device u never know what they are going to do or react. In the theory they work, but they can deter them right into your bonnet.

That's my experience with them anywyas....

The best protection against wildlife??? drive slower - and have good insurance :cool:

Cheers
Ax;e