TAG 4x4 Recovery towbar for Ranger and BT-50: the bar that works after the bitumen ends
Australian-built, rated to 3500kg towing with two 4500kg load-rated recovery points built into the bar itself. Where the TAG Recovery towbar earns its extra money over a standard bar, and where it does not.
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A standard towbar has one job and does it on smooth roads. The moment a Ranger is buried to the rails on a beach track, that same bar becomes the worst recovery point on the vehicle, because it was never rated to be one. That is the exact gap this TAG bar was built to close, and it is why we keep suggesting it to owners whose trucks actually leave the highway.
What you are looking at
The TXR804 is TAG's 4x4 Recovery towbar for the Ranger PX, September 2011 to May 2022, and the matching Mazda BT-50. It is built in Australia around an 89 by 89 millimetre extreme duty reinforced crossbar, finished in textured powder coat, with a Class 4 rating and a 50 millimetre square hitch receiver. The part that matters: two recovery points load rated to 4500 kilograms WLL are integrated into the side arms, with bevelled edges machined to suit soft shackles. In the box you get a zinc tow ball, an extreme duty drop hitch, pin and clip, and a pair of D-shackles. TAG covers the bar with a limited lifetime warranty.
How it behaves on the road
Towing is the easy part: 3500 kilograms braked and 350 on the ball, the full legal capacity of the truck. Off road is where the design shows up. The bar mounts flush to the chassis rather than hanging low, so your departure angle survives, and when a snatch or winch line is needed you connect to a point that was engineered and load tested for the job instead of gambling on a tongue. The honest con is simple: it is a heavy lump of steel that costs a few hundred dollars more than TAG's standard heavy duty bar, and if your Ranger tows a trailer to the tip and nothing else, the standard bar does that identical job for less. This bar is for trucks that get sandy.
Fitment and price reality
Price is $1,415 for the bar and the included hardware. It bolts to the PX chassis in factory locations, and we pair it with the correct wiring harness for your model year while it is on the hoist. Allow a couple of hours fitted.
The workshop call
If the truck tours, fishes or hits the beach, this is the last towbar you will buy for it, and the rated recovery points will earn their keep the first time you need them. Cab chassis and styleside use different bars, so flick us your build details before ordering and we will confirm the right one and quote it fitted with wiring done properly.
See full specs, supplier details and the workshop note on the part page: TXR804.
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