Nudge, Roo or Bull bar

[wfdTamar]

Anyone know of any kinds of these for the Octavia? I hit a wallaby the other night (did a bit of damage) and wondered if there were any on the market?

[wfdTamar]

Found this light bar in Sweden at a paltry 565 Euros! Might be able to use the mounting technique for the sub $100 light bars you can get here.

Q-light Skoda Octavia/Scout 10- For 2pc lights - Oljebaren.se

[Fourwinds]

Make sure the bar is OEM and/or compatible for use use with front air-bags. otherwise your insurance company will drop you like a hot potato.

[HAZ79]

There won't be anything available that will protect you from it. Your best choice will be to get a way to mount some decent spotlights to the car. Nudge bar, or number plate bar, or roof rack set back on the roof a bit so you're not getting reflection off the bonnet. This will hopefully let you see them first.

[wfdTamar]

Could get something like this - ugly, but would work and something to mount lights on. Not sure if they're pre made or custom for each car (so available for the Octavia).




Yes, looking for something to mount lights on too. I have some honking big driving lights, but the form of the front of the Skoda (particularly the way the bonnet opens) makes it difficult as the lights are quite deep and the bonnet hits them if they're mounted on a small nudge type light bar (the ones that mount being the number plate).

Then considered an LED light bar and still might go this way. Maybe about 500-550mm wide (the width of the number plate section). Then there's the whole business of - are they legal (being a single central light).

[bobski]

There won't be anything available that will protect you from it. Your best choice will be to get a way to mount some decent spotlights to the car. Nudge bar, or number plate bar, or roof rack set back on the roof a bit so you're not getting reflection off the bonnet. This will hopefully let you see them first.

Hopefully. I figure its the ones *I don't see* that I'll hit. Not that I've hit one yet thankfully! My mate who lives on the other side of Bathurst has hit 3 since moving here a year ago (one resulted in a write off of his Jazz).

There are plenty of moulded bars on commodores/falcons out here like this.

Genuine Holden Commodore VE Sedan Wagon UTE Bull BAR Black ROO BAR | eBay

[brad]

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Try some of those sonic whistles - i doubt they do a great deal but they are <$10

It is possible to get something made but invariably the animal jumps where the bull bar isn't.

[HAZ79]

Yeah unfortunately nothing that will go on the front will protect it. It will just be another expense as it will fold it. Unless you hit the smallest wallaby at sub 40 kms then maybe you might get away with it. These cars will not take a proper steel post bar which is what you need to hit a roo at over 80kms. The shuroos that aren't powered only work over 60km apparently and aren't that loud.(you need to clean them out regularly too). Proper electric ones seem pretty pricy at $549 plus fitting, but by the time you buy a nudge bar and spotlights is actually pretty cheap I suppose.

[wfdTamar]

I'm only talking wallabies (because I'm in Tas). I hit one at 110 kmph and it broke the black plastic tray under the front bumper, a tab and the globe of the fog light, and plastic wheel arch liner. A bar like the one above would have prevented that damage, though the wallaby wouldn't then be able to hop away from the prang as the one I hit seems to have done.

[bobski]

Some people swear by the whistles. Where I drive though, there's no where for the roos to go in a lot of places, so invariably they hop down the fence line or road and change direction into the path of the car at the last moment. I've got a sacrificial car for that I drive in peak roo times thats worth less than a bullbar.