ANyone got a source for bash plates for 7L TDI 5 Cyl. preferably in Melbourne?
Bash Plates
wozzlegummich
1 - 13 of 13 Posts
Joined
·
33 Posts
ANyone got a source for bash plates for 7L TDI 5 Cyl. preferably in Melbourne?
Steel Engine Sump Guard
Designed and manufactured by our company, for almost all types of vehicles. Buy your sump guard directly from the manufacturer!
www.sump-guard.co.uk
Joined
·
1,061 Posts
Wrong Melbourne.Steel Engine Sump Guard
Designed and manufactured by our company, for almost all types of vehicles. Buy your sump guard directly from the manufacturer!
OP is looking for Melbourne - Victoria - Australia
not Melbourne - Derby - UK
This is the Australia & New Zealand sub-forum, I'm not confused about which Melbourne... but I think that's the closest you're going to find them. I have those plates on my Touareg and they're great. I'm about as far from the UK as you guys are.
Another list member that is fairly local freighted it in from Darkside, and I bought it off him. However that was a lucky coincidence, because I had been planning to pay more to get the same plates shipped internationally already.
I actually do think it would is worth it. These are enough cheaper than Eurowise that they are still cheaper with shipping. Importantly, they are also much lighter than the Eurowise steel plates, which are crazy heavy and designed for heavy rock crawling use. For a family overlander with a lot of gear on board, the Eurowise steel plates are a poor option. Eurowise aluminum plates are also expensive, and I'm not a fan of aluminum in a skid plate because of the higher friction when sliding over rocks, and brittleness.
Full disclosure though, I don't like the way these plates mount to the crossmember. I am probably going to re-engineer that specific mount point. It is a "no drill" solution that bolts through a hole, with a backing piece of metal, but I found the whole thing moves around and makes noise when the chassis flexes during braking.
For sure Eurowise is for the hard core racer type. Half way round the world Freight for us in these times is just beyond the pale. I think that making locally is going to be the best outcome for me and allows that balance between weight and protection. It's all good when you have a mobile workshop following you a la Dakar but I'm a bit averse to getting hung up on rocks or branches when on my own so the plates for me are more for protection from debris thrown up in transit than proving I can go that extra half inch.
Joined
·
4 Posts
Brown Davis near Boronia used to have them.
Joined
·
11 Posts
Yep, still on their website. Thanks for the heads up.
1 - 13 of 13 Posts
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
