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I have my doubts about these initially, but I have also used them for years, and never had a moment with cars fitted with them ............ Placebo luck ?
Last roo I hit was about 20 years ago, in the HQ, within 2km of home, and no whistling thingys fitted on that. New front bar and radiator needed.
As for the trucking B&S roo bars on lowered utes with low profile tyres, and aircraft landing lights, I think they are just Garage Kings with spray on mud. They cannot be practical on unsealed country roads.
Example, the road from Tibooburra to the QLD border is generally cut up, and it is a matter of straddling the carved wheel ruts hoping the under body doesn't scrape when you run out of high points to drive on. The Cross6 made a few slow graunching noises along that bit of goat-track.
Over the QLD border to Noccundra, the road is well looked after, but short, sharp creek crossings will keep you alert, and I wonder how a lowered ute at 100kmh, with a trucking roo bar would handle the suspension bottoming out and subsequent approach angle.
And there are any number of roads like that in Kangaroo Kountry.
Of course, that is why 'everybody' drives their 4WD Hilux, not a Commodore, to Dead Dingo Creek.
Been through some shite roads in outback NSW....The road from Bourke to Cobar used to be part dirt part bitument....So having a bullbar on like that ute would have resulted in some ploughing....
Another was inbetween Eidsvold and Taroom or Taroom and Injune South Western Qld...Can't remember exactly where, but again, another ploughing style road with a bullbar like that ute fitted....
Since fitting those shuroos, I had one oh shite moment about 6 years ago....Travelling night time through western NSW, a roo stuck his head up when I was about 20 metres away from a white road side sign post doing 110....He stayed put but I shat.....I reckon he heard those shuroos, hence why he popped his head up, but didn't come out to say hello, thank truck....