ARB Bar chipped n rusty. 1 month old, not been off-road yet!

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A quick update. ARB to their credit have agreed to replace the bar with a new colour coded one. Initially the offer was to respray the original bar, but due to the excessive quoted turnaround time along with the inconvenience of having to ship it back to them, I suggested that wasn’t good enough and they’ve now agreed to the replacement. I guess I’ll just have to see how good the next one is, and if I get the same result, I’ll go the external contractor option.

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Spike
good to hear the positive outcome.

Fred

[spike69 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close spike69]

Yes looking forward to getting it on, as I have a few new additions to put on it

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ARB Bar chipped n rusty. 1 month old, not been off-road yet!

Colour coded bars are usually painted (outsourced) by the fitting dealer rather than ARB head office...

ARB have their own paint shops in a few of the major city's, Brisbanes for example is at Brendale, this is why they can colour code a bar for around half the price of a panel shop. This is straight from John P at ARB Bayside and their website.




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

Hope you get a better outcome 2nd time around, although with the price that ARB and any other 4x4 accessory retailer charges, it should be A1 first time around.

Just a quick question, has anyone had a similar problem with say TJM, Ironman or Opposite Lock? If there is less chance of this problem with others, I may be persuaded to go elsewhere when it's time to replace the sovereign bar.