Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Unfair to use the suppliers name here.

Peter Connan wrote:I know this is not the answer you want, but this is what a good bull bar is for. Far more effective than little bits of plastic.

NO sorry Peter, a bull bar will not prevent damage . I lost a headlight on my GU , stealers took over R3400.00 from me.After that incident I fitted the shields.
I bought mine in CPT, and gave it to JG .Bought it from Dennis Maytom

Koos, have you looked at the bull bars I make?

They protect stuff instead of just looking pretty.

Will try tonight, don't have pics here.

All my bullbars have removable expanded-mesh screens covering all the lights and the radiator: They clip in at the bottom, and at the top are held on with one or two wingnuts, so that they can be easily removed for cleaning etc.

They have been proven guineafowl-safe.

....except for the indicator light..... ....just kidding mate

Ja boet, I wondered afterwards why I had photographed that side of the car.

In actual fact, I broke that before I built the bar. But it is actually not an indicator, nor is it a park light. It doesn't seem to come on at all, even though the bulb is fine, and neither does the one on the other side...

..... but nice B/bar anyway
BUT
If you were a smoker... which I know you are not... and you have, say for example street gate that is a frame with only, say 40x40 tubing with 100mm spacing in between, and you flick your stompie through the gate.... guaranteed you will hit the 40x40 steel posts..... BUT let it be a little stone flung up by a truck/car..... guaranteed it will make it through that opening in the steel mesh infront of the light and break the glass .... MURPHY'S FLIPPIN LAW !!

You're probably right Cedric, but at the risk of temting old Murph, I doubt a pebble small enough to get through there will be able to break a light?

Anyway, there are four vehicles running around with my mesh screens on, and not one of them has lost a light yet. Or a radiator. Despite one of them having written off a beamer.