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WHHHOOOAAAAOOHHH! easy tiger

just a thought though, would these act as side protection bars for off roading (maybe not chome though) maybe protect against sliding into trees rock protection? always thought things looked a little exposed down there.

I know nothing - but my instant thought is that they'd make the van wider, so more likely to hit something, and they'd concentrate any side impact into the two spots......

What about welding slide bars between the two jacking points, make it a tad lower at that point but would hopefully slide rather than bend the chassis rails.

The ones that fit through the jacking points are sh-t.Espesialy the alloy ones.All that they will do is cause more damage than protection.
But there are proper ones available out there.

I was thinking maybe scafolding pole slung under the jacking point rather than horizontal, I see your point about causing damage though, if they came off you'd be shagged. how do the 'proper' ones attatch Russel?

Its not the coming off that is likely to cause damage but the way they are
attached to the van will cause damage when hit hard.And the fact that u dont want to have anything much lower than ure sills for ground clearance.
The van(syncromog) i am working on at present will have sliders fitted.
These are a heavy guage forged steel tube stile.They are fitted very securely to the van to take most impacts.They are mainly fitted to avoid side impact damage(panel)and as a secondary vertical sill damage.They only pretrude a couple of mm below the sill and dont protrude beyond the wheel base.
They are bolt on but need special brakets welded to the van for securing.

imagine the impact would have hit the body directly

Some of us don't have to imagine this.

Replacing the inner sills directly with heavyweight box section is a very attractive and discreet option, although costly.

Henning, it's an idea I intend to implement during 2006 on one of my vehicles. When I've done it I'll show you how!

My idea is to cut out the inside of the sills on the outside of the vehicle and replace this section with box profile. I've found to my cost that if you suffer an impact on these outer sills then they actually 'burst' and split apart along the joint with the outer panel.

You need to be doing something pretty 'advanced' to cause this sort of wound to your vehicle though!

Get across to the event at Coney Farm in April and I'm sure we can show you what we mean! It's a great site and has some seriously hardcore terrain.

Diamond Hell wrote:
You need to be doing something pretty 'advanced' to cause this sort of wound to your vehicle though!

You mean people actually take 4WD vehicle off road????? Shocking, I thought they were only useful for school runs etc.

Shhhhh, it's crap off road - ask anyone with a Land Rover

We just pretend they're good off road to wind people up..... or something.

it must be the drink making me come up with wild ideas like that

Hi,

projektzwo had these in progamm. I've seen some syncro in action, the bars were very stable.
Sometimes you find them on ebay.
Here you can find some old brochures from projektzwo: http://vwpix.terlinden.com/prospekte/de ... rojektzwo/