ARB Wide range of off-road equipment launched for new Isuzu D-Max

ARB unveils wide range of off-road equipment for new Isuzu D-Max – with more to come

As we reported last month, the new Isuzu D-Max is proving so popular that there’s already a hefty waiting list building up. If you’re planning on buying one to use as the base for a modifi ed off-roader (inspired, perhaps, by our GO2 project), what this means is that by the time it arrives, you can have an strong inventory of parts ready and waiting to bolt on to it.

That’s because famed Australian off-road specialist ARB has wasted no time in bringing out a range of kit for the vehicle. This includes not one but two bull bars, as well as a choice of options for fi tting uprated suspension.

Starting with the latter, ARB’s Old Man Emu division has developed suspension lifts for the vehicle which it says also increase its load-carrying ability and ‘improve comfort, control and ride quality on all surfaces.’ Quite a boast, that – but this is a brand with rather a lot of previous when it comes to this kind of stuff, so you tend to think they’ve got it in them.

The lift you get is in the region of 40mm (a touch shy of two inches). It’s available with a range of rear springs, with matching shocks and greasable shackles and pins, to suit whatever load-carrying needs you expect the vehicle to have. Old Man Emu also uses an XL leaf to assist with fi ne-tuning the vehicle’s carrying capacity.

Up front, once again there’s a range of spring and shock combos to cater for your own particular setup. No small matter when a pick-up built as an off-road toy might be expected to carry fairly light weights in the back – while toting a winch and heavy-duty bumper up front.

On that subject, the basic design of ARB’s Summit and Commercial bars has already been adapted for the new D-Max. The former is available for a range of models, providing massively enhanced protection up front as well as giving you somewhere solid to mount a winch. It doesn’t come with recovery points (ARB sells those separately), but it does have mounting holes for LED bars and CB whips.

The Commercial bar is a simpler unit which aims to provide all the strength for less money by doing away with some of the Summit’s cosmetic additions. Given that a good proportion of the price of

ARB’s Summit Bull Bar (left) is a familiar sight on modifi ed pick-ups the world over – and now you’re going to start seeing it on the new D-Max, too. The Commercial bar (above) is similarly styled, but it has a simpler construction and does away with a few cosmetic touches to make it more affordable. Either way, front towing points (right) need to be bought and fi tted separately. The D-Max can also now be fi tted with ARB’s Classic and Classic Plus canopies, and the company has several more models on the way too

items like these in the UK covers simply getting them here, however, these savings are less dramatic that they’d be back home in Oz – and since the customers we’re talking about are people who can afford to buy a new D-Max and start modding it fresh from the box, we’d think that the vast majority of interest from over here will be for the full-fat unit.

ARB has also revised its Classic and Classic Plus canopies to suit the D-Max, and confi rmed that its existing Outback Solutions drawers and Tailgate Assist kit are compatible with the new vehicle. As you read this, the company is also working on rock sliders, wing bars, underbody protection, a heavy-duty rear bumper and more canopy and bull bar options to add to the list, too, with projected arrival dates for all these items ‘early in 2021.’

There’s a great deal of ARB kit on our project D-Max, and we’ve also had it on previous vehicles from other manufacturers. And while a heavy-duty bull bar without recovery points might sound strange to British ears, this is top-notch kit built for the sort of environments us Poms can only dream of. It’s as cool as it is strong, and boy is it strong. To fi nd out more about what ARB can do for your truck (whether it’s a new D-Max or anything else), UK importer Britpart is the place to go – you’ll fi nd it at www.britpart.com. SPECIALIST 4X4 VEHICLE DISMANTERS JEEP - LAND ROVER SPECIALIST 4X4 VEHICLE DISMANTERS AND MOST MAKES AND MODELS JEEP - LAND ROVER QUALITY GUARANTEED USED PARTS AND MOST MAKES AND MODELS QUALITY GUARANTEED USED PARTS SOME OF THE VEHICLES WE HAVE RECENTLY DISMANTLED: SOME OF THE VEHICLES WE HAVE RECENTLY DISMANTLED:

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