Grill Guard or Bull Bar for Jetta MK4???

I've done lots of searches and cant find any grill guards or similar things for the 02 Jetta TDi or any Jetta for that matter. Anyone have any leads? I drive at night with lots of deer so I'm looking for at least a little defense against them!

I've seen one on a honda cr-v before...I suppose it's not out of the question.

Instead of building and installing a "cow-catcher' on the Jetta, try installing one of these, or a similar product.

http://www.deerwhistle.com/

Cheaper and a bit more discreet!

Ed's TDI said:

Instead of building and installing a "cow-catcher' on the Jetta, try installing one of these, or a similar product.

http://www.deerwhistle.com/

Cheaper and a bit more discreet!

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But they don't work. My mom lives in a community with a whole bunch of retired people. These deer whistles were must have on the pensioners' mad mod lists a couple of years ago. Until a) two drivers with whistles on their cars hit deer within a week; and b) my mom was riding in a car with the whistles, and a herd (10-12) slowly walked out in front of the car. It was almost like the deer were looking around, "what's that sound? I must get closer. . . . "

Anyway,
if anyone DOES find brush guard / bull bar / 'roo bar for an A4, let me know. The wagon needs one for collision protection; mounting of driving/fog lights; and a point to secure the bow of the canoe when I have it on the roof.

you need a canyonero

ha

Grill Guard

http://www2.partstrain.com/v5/products.php?N=0&Ntt=VOLKSWAGEN+GOLF+2003+Bumper+Guard


Might be kind of cheap. Worth a look.

checked out the link... that looks like just the mounting hardware for the cheap price. a quick google search for 'dakar bar' brought this up...

http://www.truckaddons.com/Catalog/subpages/Rampage_DakarBars.htm

so.. buy the bar for 156-233 and then the mounting hardware for 53$.

and i know it's not really a grill guard, but there is a member of this site who makes a pretty nifty light bar that would help you see the deer, instead of just blocking against them..

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=159598&highlight=light+bar

hope that helps.

Any updates on rad Bambi bashers? Thank you.

If you have machine skills, make your own. It wouldn't be that hard, and probably pretty cheap depending on the size of metal you used.

I have searched but haven't come up with anything good. I have an idea for how to mount one up but don't have a welder and brother who has a welder is busy.

lol i was looking for a rh type for my mk5 lol

coalminer16 said:

I have an idea for how to mount one up but don't have a welder and brother who has a welder is busy.

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I'm curious about this. I can't think of a way to mount one that wouldn't drastically reduce the already low front ground clearance or hack up the bumper cover.

The underlying issue with a truely effective grill guard for a Mk IV is the mounting. Being a uni-body car, a grill guard would effectively bypass the existing bumper and put impact forces directly to the chassis. While this sounds great in theory, bear in mind the forward areas of the chassis are designed to deform under any load that gets past the bumper components. As a result, a deer hit that might normally just need some exterior panels fixed may incur more extensive uni-body damage.

This is different than a grill guard for a body-on-frame truck as in those applications, the guard often attaches to the frame using the bumper mounts, so the impact forces are roughly the same.

rshelton said:

I've done lots of searches and cant find any grill guards or similar things for the 02 Jetta TDi or any Jetta for that matter. Anyone have any leads? I drive at night with lots of deer so I'm looking for at least a little defense against them!

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buttonfly said:

But they don't work. My mom lives in a community with a whole bunch of retired people. These deer whistles were must have on the pensioners' mad mod lists a couple of years ago. Until a) two drivers with whistles on their cars hit deer within a week; and b) my mom was riding in a car with the whistles, and a herd (10-12) slowly walked out in front of the car. It was almost like the deer were looking around, "what's that sound? I must get closer. . . . "

Anyway,
if anyone DOES find brush guard / bull bar / 'roo bar for an A4, let me know. The wagon needs one for collision protection; mounting of driving/fog lights; and a point to secure the bow of the canoe when I have it on the roof.

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What are you PMing people? I am still in this thought here on this all. Now that I live closer to my brother the guard might become a real thing. I was thinking of using a c channel attached to the diesel geek skid plate mounting. Basically I am no looking to stop a full sized buck that hits the car. That can't be done. I have seen them total a full sized truck where there was no grill left, the bumper, both fenders and the hood all curled inward toward the engine with fluids leaking everywhere. That is at 65 witha buck. And the airbags blew out. I am looking to either help deflect the blow or at least make it so you could drive home still. Also could tie into the bumper if willing to put a couple holes into the plastic. The cop cars with unibodies can get away with it so it can be done. I left the mine too soon but the new ford car they had after 3 deer hits there was a shop in town making a custom grill guard.

There was that guy who made a custom belly plate for his NB that wrapped up around the nose of the car.

I saw that-but that only protects a little up front. I was thinking coming up more with the attachment points.

ok the only way to protect against a deer is to make an exocage on the front.... so with that an idea would be to run a cross bar from the strut towers and then bars out between the grill and hood to give you a top mount and support and then in the lower grill use the frame area by the tow hook to give front support then run it under the car to the lower suspension sub frame mounts as like a skid plate......
Heres a quick drawing.....

Prototype?

http://pics.tdiclub.com/showphoto.php?photo=83678&title=deer-catcher&cat=500

All I have to say is:



(this is not mine, copy/paste url from another forum)

Another member made this up for his MKIV:



He was cleaning out his garage and selling it a while back on this thread:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=360275

Does anyone know anything about the configuration above (the green golf, not the light bar on the jetta)?

MKIV golf bull bar

im looking for something that fits like this:



I have a lift kit on the car already.

Im looking for ideas also!

Grill guard/Light bar

rshelton said:

I've done lots of searches and cant find any grill guards or similar things for the 02 Jetta TDi or any Jetta for that matter. Anyone have any leads? I drive at night with lots of deer so I'm looking for at least a little defense against them!

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Send me your email address and I'll send you a pic of my solution to the same issue

Intech said:

Send me your email address and I'll send you a pic of my solution to the same issue

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Or better yet, post it here for everyone to see....

Pic

tdanielson95 said:

Or better yet, post it here for everyone to see....

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I wish I could, but in all the years that I have been on this forum I've failed MISERABLY, so I gave up. FWIW, in my career, I HAVE to follow details and directions, so I'm not lazy that way, I just can't get pics posted.

Here's a few good inspirational pics if you care to click. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8326/8133334995_14d4cb6f7f_b.jpg

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Get Weldy!

Intech said:

I wish I could, but in all the years that I have been on this forum I've failed MISERABLY, so I gave up. FWIW, in my career, I HAVE to follow details and directions, so I'm not lazy that way, I just can't get pics posted.

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Upload to photobucket.
Select the img one, see my image (how meta is this?)
Paste it it here.

Boom!