Hi All,

I am from Australia and purchased a brand new Yeti 77TSI model. Has anyone here in Australia purchased a front nudge bar for the Yeti? Where can we buy it in Australia? i live in Melbourne so it would be great if i could buy it locally. (I asked the dealership but they dont have it).

Cheers,

Tisvy.

Metal nudge or bull bars are illegal now here in the UK (and Europe iirc) probably going to struggle getting one from over here.

Something like this?

 

http://www.upcountryautoproducts.co.uk/skoda_yeti/a-bar-nudge-antec-protection_yeti.asp

 

Hi All, I am from Australia and purchased a brand new Yeti 77TSI model. Has anyone here in Australia purchased a front nudge bar for the Yeti? Where can we buy it in Australia? i live in Melbourne so it would be great if i could buy it locally. (I asked the dealership but they dont have it). Cheers, Tisvy.

Theres a fair few now available. Have a look in the UK based magazines like Total 4x4 - lots of advertisers selling them, if you cant get magazines for detials then try similar places to this:

 

http://www.autostylinguk.co.uk/products/ProductSubCategory/Front-Bars/SCCAR_MPV/PTFRONTB/GCYETI/PRproduct.html

I don't know how they can sell those child killer bars in the uk, as said they are illegal here and rightly so together with static mascots on the bonnet 

The OP is from Oz, I dont think he's buying it to run down kids with.

Superskoda sell an original yeti one.

Something like this?

 

http://www.upcountryautoproducts.co.uk/skoda_yeti/a-bar-nudge-antec-protection_yeti.asp

 

 

I don't think that's going to do the trick.

I think what the OP is looking for is more like this...

http://www.tjm.com.au/en/product/toyota-hilux-2011-alloy-deluxe-bull-bar-0?tid=36

Roos can do a heck of a lot of damage even at low speed and they've got a habit of sitting in the middle of the road at night.

Yes, that was all I could find though.

The two occasions I've had Roo Bars on Land Rovers (quite a while back, before we knew better) they've folding back (due to fixing at the bottom) in an accident and done more damage.

But that was not against soft targets which they are designed for on Safari.

Do they 'Roo's in Melbourne?

Do they 'Roo's in Melbourne?

Perhaps he travels a little further afield than his home city

Roos can do a heck of a lot of damage even at low speed and they've got a habit of sitting in the middle of the road at night.

 

Damn them for sneakily picking a spot where they'll be illuminated by your headlights.  Who would think of looking there?

 

In the Highlands the deer wait in the shadows by the side of the road and jump out at the last minute.  It helps to have a spotter looking for the tell-tale pinpoints of light caused by the scatter from your lights reflecting in their eyes.

Yes, that was all I could find though.

I knew that

  

Damn them for sneakily picking a spot where they'll be illuminated by your headlights.  Who would think of looking there?

 

In the Highlands the deer wait in the shadows by the side of the road and jump out at the last minute.  It helps to have a spotter looking for the tell-tale pinpoints of light caused by the scatter from your lights reflecting in their eyes.

The majority aren't anywhere near as big as a deer, but about the size of a large dog.

They also have a nasty habit of sitting bog still as you light them up, then always seem to jump the way you've just steered to avoid the damn things.

The OP is from Oz, I dont think he's buying it to run down kids with.

I know he is ,I was responding to Boss Foxes link to a uk site selling them, I dont think anyone wants to run down kids anywhere in the world but kids run out in the road anywhere in the world also, a childhood friend was killed by a 4x4 with bull bars. If you hit another car head on you will probably kill each other, ( until crumple zones were introduced hardly any damage to the cars but occupants died of internal injuries ) crumple zones are there for a reason. I was hit on my bike at 35 mph by 75 year old motorist ( he had has license rescinded ) and would be dead if it had a bull bar .Taken me 3 months to recover

.... about the size of a large dog.

 

I agree the majority are this size, but there must be something in the grass near the Plenty Gorge area NNE of Melbourne (near Greensborough) where I go mountain bike riding. The roos up there are insanely large. Several of the males look like they frequent a kangaroo gym or something - clearly defined biceps, pecs ... the lot. We call them 'Vin Diesel' each time we see one of these beasts. A few times I've rounded a corner to find one standing in the middle of the trail. I'm 6ft and a smidge, and one of these roos can look me in square in the eye. They certainly aren't intimidated. I frequently take my GoPro up there hoping to catch a recording, but they're camera shy and never seem to get too close on said days.

 

In any case, if someone were to collide with one of these particular roos on the Greensborough bypass, or the Metro Ring Road (recently renamed 'Ring Road' I've noticed), doing 90 - 100km/h, then no nudge bar will save your Yeti from serious damage.

We met his mate a few years ago in the Tower Hill reserve near Warnambool - suddenly, 20 metres away :S .   He had his Sheilas with him and he wasn't going anywhere.  So we (two at six-foot-plus and our Sheilas) remembered that we needed to go somewhere else instead