Installing Bull Bars On Skoda Yeti

A few minutes of online research reveals that Frontal Protection Systems (Nudge / Bull Bars) are NOT prohibited in the EU. Let's install them.

Some cars come from the manufacturer with preinstalled bars: the Dacia Duster, for example.

The bull bars / nudge bars from back in the day were solid steel and ARE prohibited

The European Union banned those in 2007.

Today's bull bars are hollow and are really for aesthetics

Here in the Czech Republic I am required to have a DEKRA inspection after installation and if it goes okay then I must get that authorisation written in to my technical document at the ministry of transport office.

Probably the same thing in most, if not all EU countries.

The days of doing whatever we want to our cars are over it seems

Even so, I really want a Frontal Protection System on my Yeti. Black, like American police cars.😎

I find the ones I want online and order them.

They arrive fast and are well packed...

Let's get installing...

I secure the main brackets to my Yeti's frame - the holes match perfectly

It has taken me the best part of an hour to install the main brackets to the frame.

There are some scrapes on my hands here and there but I don't care - I will soon have bull bars on my Yeti and they will look awesome, and everything. 😋

Let's offer up the lower bars and get them secured.

And now the larger (and heavier) main part.

Once everything is aligned I tighten all the bolts.

Now I’ll give this under-car tray a once over with my trusty Armor All and refit it.

All looks good in there...

I remove the protective wrapping from my newly installed bull bars, and...

BOOM!

Several weeks later and a visit to the main DEKRA testing facility in Prague then a visit to my local ministry of transport office, and...

DOUBLE BOOM!

Yes. 

The DEKRA technician had no issues with my new bull bars or my installation of them 😇

And the ministry of transport office had no choice but to add the approval in my Yeti's technical document (log book, V5C).

Thanks for visiting.

And feel free to stay tuned for more Yeti modifications I have planned.

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