NSW Police targetting 5 Post bullbars.

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http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story...drivers-fined/

[Joe Lighty Member Find all posts View Profile Close Joe Lighty]

Yep, if your ute looks like the one in the article, you need to be targeted by police!

[Peter SA Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Peter SA]

Why would anyone want to put that on their car? All they are doing is demonstrating how educationally sub normal they are.

[BlakMoth Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close BlakMoth]

Jeebus. I know a guy who has those on his Iveco vans. Pedestrian killers

[pete8205 Member Find all posts View Profile Close pete8205]

Interesting read that
Yes those bars are not to every ones liking but there great for road rage just show the bar and they run scared! and skippy at 120kph they just shake
The comment that 5 post bars have been illegal since 2003 is bullshit as they still hadn't changed the laws in 2007 when I sold my old panno
Don't get me wrong It doesn't mean all are legal, including the one in the picture.
to my knowledge the rules in NSW were and still are,
they need to have a 5 degree lean back
cannot affect the operation of airbags etc
cannot obscure headlights
many cops tried to defect me and they couldn't, mine wasn't much smaller then the one pictured.
Also depends when it was fitted so if was legal when fitted they cannot make you change it.
so I guess in short its mostly late model utes that will be in trouble!

And BlackMoth a car with or without a bulbar can still kill pedestrians, just like comparing the 4wd to 2wds as pedestrian killers.

[BlakMoth Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close BlakMoth]

No shit mate. As I said I know I guy who has them. He does night country runs and bounces roos straight off. Doesn't mean it's safe or a good idea to have one

[ntp Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close ntp]

Bullbars.

[BlakMoth Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close BlakMoth]

Lol gotcha

[Beach Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beach]

That would have to be one of the stupidest, dumbest things I have ever seen anyone do to a vehicle.

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

There seems to be a resurgence of 5 posters up this end of the world - especially 200 series and Tojo utes with Queensland plates mostly but a few are sneaking onto local cars.

[BostonKaos . Find all posts View Profile Close BostonKaos]

I used to work in the mines ( Moranbah) for years when I lived in Bundaberg and Rockhampton and let me tell you alot of us with SS and XR8 utes had five posters not that big though for the pure reason on the beef road which runs between Dingo and Mackay its a nighmare for roos and emu. With 150km between Dingo and Middlemount and nothing in between with no phone reception it was almost a must. Just my two cents the one in the picture is overkill though.

[r4ndll Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close r4ndll]

I know bars like that exist, but is that picture real? It looks a bit photoshoppy to me.

[glen_ep Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close glen_ep]

I won't be installing a bar like that, but nor will I be prejudice against it. If people need extra protection to prevent car failure in the bush, so be it. Of course if there's rules about it's design and angles, the manufacturer should conform to the rules. And if pedestrians don't like being hit by bars, don't walk in front of them.

[Graz Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Graz]

haha yeah the one in the photo is photoshopped.
See a lot of the ute muster guys down this way with there huge bars on trying to look like a mack truck.
Can see both sides to this.
But i would be pissed if any of my family was killed because a car lost its steering and crashed into them.

[pete8205 Member Find all posts View Profile Close pete8205]

the 5 post bars have been an issue with the pedestrian council for quite a few years. in saying that they want all bars banned!
I agree there getting too big and a bar half the size will do the same job
I don't think think the one in the photo is photoshopped. just google BNS utes and you will see, I had a mate with one that was taller, sitting in the drivers seat you would be looking through the bar to see down the road.
Its because of these oversize bars the laws had to change.