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Originally Posted by YankeeDave (Post 1306627)

give me a month or so, I have a few projects i'm finishing off

No problem. I'm about a month or two away from deciding on the ECB bar so will touch base before I do.

ARB = MIA for J E E P.

ARB has been missing out on jeep stuff when they didnt come out with a rear tyre carrier on the JK bar........ (until now)....... massive sales would have been lost in those first couple of years with punters going to the other brands.....

it seems that even though ARB caters mainly for the yank market (its cheaper to buy a locker from quadratech and have it shipped here then it is to buy from arb), they decided to forget about one of americas most modifies 4wd.

personally, if i had a GC, i would chose to support those who support us, the yankee daves of this world.....

if ARB has forgotten about us, then why are they in the forefronts of our minds?

yes they make some awesome gear, but the jeeps have been forgotten for to long.....

but mr arb, if you are willing to throw a 55l fridge my way, i will happily take my comments down :P

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Originally Posted by ARB 4X4 Accessories (Post 1305842)

Hi guys, it's great to see that you're interested in ARB protection equipment for your WK2 Grand Cherokees. It's certainly a product line that we're committed to developing and acknowledge that there are many people who require protection equipment for off road and remote area travel in these vehicles.

Unfortunately, with the release of so many new and facelift vehicles recently, coupled with an unprecedented demand for our products in the last 6 months, some development projects have, regrettably, been delayed. With many of the recent releases being either updates to existing vehicles or the expansion of existing product ranges, development for these projects has taken priority of late.

To give you some background, our design engineering department has over 30 full time engineers working to develop a range of ARB products for new and updated vehicles. The engineering and development work required to develop, test, refine and re-test any single product before it's made available to our customers is substantial, particularly with modern vehicle impact systems, stability control (ESC) and CAN bus electrical systems.

We're aware that the current delays are very frustrating for our customers and are subsequently investing millions of dollars in new machinery and facilities in order to increase our development and manufacturing capabilities and reduce future delays.

As soon as we have some concrete development information, I'll be happy to make it available here on the forum. In the mean time, we apologise for the delay in releasing our range of WK2 Grand Cherokee accessories and ask that you remain patient in the knowledge that we're working as hard as we can to bring these products to market.

Cheers, Sam.

Sam,

How about passing on the contenets of this thread to the heads of ARB to actually show them that a large section of the Jeep community are not happy with their lack of support for particular popular models. I thinks it's quite obvious that people aren't happy with their lack of action and the percieved lack of support. How about removing the blinkers and ear plugs ARB.......

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Originally Posted by jtb007 (Post 1306661)

Like the way you think. I've been trying to give ARB $000's since November, so I'm not looking for a Fridge, although I am looking for a bullbar with winch capability, and I kept be told by ARB, it's on the way.
Also now that I've quoted your post, even if you take your's down, it stays embedded in mine. Sorry if I've cost you a fridge. I do have an old esky I could give you:-)

Yankee Dave will get my support and dollars and I'll then let all the forums know about His business and who knows, we might see a new 4WD Franchise in the next few years called Yankee Dave's 4WD accessories, specialising in WK Winch Bars?

I have a much better name in mind than that :)

Yankee Dave, thanks for putting your hand up so quickly. There are indeed many people that would so willingly part with their cash to armor up these very capable 4x4's. I have been trying to take matters into my own hands for some time just trying to get some brackets manufactured to bolt a nudge bar and proper recovery hooks onto. I am told the jeep dealerships have loads of nudgebars just sitting around waiting for jeep to produce the ADR approved brackets.

I have even begged ECB to sell their brackets for their bull bar separately as I am led to believe that bar originally came out to suit the 2011 model (front tow hooks) and then had to make the brackets to fit the same bar to 2012 model. Unfortunately I could only speak to a staff member there that lacked a few too many braincells, so I couldn't really get anywhere with that idea.

So it seems to me if you were to manufacture a bar for us, you might want to consider selling the brackets as a separate item as well so others could have the option of fitting the factory nudge bar.

Just driving up the Hume Highway north of Melbourne. Within an hours drive, I counted 8 x Jeep WK2's, 6 x Landcruisers (4 with bullbars), 4 x Prados (2 with bullbars), 1 x Ranger (no accessories) and 1 x FJ cruiser (no accessories).

Maybe I should sell my WK2 as they're becoming far too common.