urban offroad steel bumper
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Regardless of how you guys feel about this bumper, UO makes some pretty tight products. They were the first company that made a decent looking alternative to Safety Devices' D90 roof rack, among other products.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jvelador
The company name, the font, the smoked glass is irrelevant and insignificant when it comes to making products people want. His style of dressing himself and his truck are perhaps easy for many to dislike, Derek is fine with that. So he struck out with this bumper, don't buy it. He's got other cool products that many will be interested in. Among these products are a D90 roll cage (upper portions), a Disco half rack that is more suitable for shorter trips, replacement 2004 Disc-looking roof rack bars for Disco IIs.
I'm in no way financially associated with Derek or Urban Offroad. But I do have tremendous respect for him. He has a genuine desire to bring innovative products to market, without any intention of raping his customers. He wants to make a living, not get rich off someone's need. Derek has bent over backwards for many of his customers, including myself. Saturdays, Sundays, doesn't matter. If more vendors treated their customers like he does his, we'd be able to buy Land Rover parts all day and night.
I invite you guys to look at and consider all products and simply disregard those you don't like. We all do that with other vendors, don't we?
Cheers!
Javier
http://picasaweb.google.com/jvelador
The company name, the font, the smoked glass is irrelevant and insignificant when it comes to making products people want. His style of dressing himself and his truck are perhaps easy for many to dislike, Derek is fine with that. So he struck out with this bumper, don't buy it. He's got other cool products that many will be interested in. Among these products are a D90 roll cage (upper portions), a Disco half rack that is more suitable for shorter trips, replacement 2004 Disc-looking roof rack bars for Disco IIs.
I'm in no way financially associated with Derek or Urban Offroad. But I do have tremendous respect for him. He has a genuine desire to bring innovative products to market, without any intention of raping his customers. He wants to make a living, not get rich off someone's need. Derek has bent over backwards for many of his customers, including myself. Saturdays, Sundays, doesn't matter. If more vendors treated their customers like he does his, we'd be able to buy Land Rover parts all day and night.
I invite you guys to look at and consider all products and simply disregard those you don't like. We all do that with other vendors, don't we?
Cheers!
Javier
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disregard those you don't like. We all do that with other vendors, don't we?
Cheers!
Javier[/quote] Just cause the product sucks is no reason to defened it! The roof racks not bad though!
Cheers!
Javier[/quote] Just cause the product sucks is no reason to defened it! The roof racks not bad though!
i was joking with a co-worker about how to make a discovery a "flat-biller" ride. I think Urban Outfitters has the key to that trend down... NO longer are flat-billers relegated to IFS Chevy, dodge and ford trucks, they can feel the real stability and ruggedness of a live working solid axle 4wd system as they drive around on 20+" black wheels and park on curbs to see the mad tyte flex yo.
got to hand it to them, they always have a hot chick riding shotgun...
Ill take my silver steel natos and RTE bumper and real SD rack any day though. even over a hot chick shotgun...
got to hand it to them, they always have a hot chick riding shotgun...
Ill take my silver steel natos and RTE bumper and real SD rack any day though. even over a hot chick shotgun...
jvelador said:
It's great that people make an attempt to design and build 'something' however they should spend more time on design before pushing it as being so wonderful or charging much.
The LR3 rack looks nicely constructed, who knows how strong, but it's a terrible design. Where the old SD rack on a the disco had bars 'covering' the sunroof, this one renders the entire front area useless by not dropping the level too low to allow bars over the sunroof, but yet the side rails continue around the front, similar to the range rover rack, but without any useful function, except to put some tiny lights up.
The front section of the rack cantilevers out almost 30", again poor design, zero function even if there were bars spanning over the sunroof.
There is a reason, the otherwise crappy, but at least more functional OEM rack from land rover for the lr3 is FLAT front to back, it allows spanning over the sunroof as well as having front mounts ot the roof providing 3 mount locations.
So many other racks just blow this crap away - it's like he looked at what was out there and made sure not to use any good ideas already built - good design 'improves' upon old ideas rather than ignoring them.
The bumper isn't even worth typing about.