Need help picking skids for 2020 GX (1 Viewer)

[PoindAxster]

Thanks for the replies fellas! Let me see if I can address some of what you've posted...

We can get into some gnarly stuff out here. Some trails I wouldn't attempt whatsoever! There is also frost heaving and changing conditions, due to extreme weather, from one season to the next. What could have been easy last year got washed out to become a big surprise this time. Vermont class 4 roads and New Hampshire's version (class 6 maybe?) is what I'm trying to build for.

My intention isn't boulder crawling. It is to protect on the occasion something goes bang.

• ARB looks light, but maybe not enough.
• RCI looks like it has some good protective options.
• Slee has their "new" plate system.
• CBI customer service blows donkey chunks! But I do like their products.

Here's probably the average kind of trail (started at 11:37 in)

 

[BigSwede]

I just today installed Victory skid plates. I do some rock crawling, and the GX isn't my daily anymore, so I went with steel. They look competent, we'll see how they do on the rocks.

 

[r2m]

I just today installed Victory skid plates. I do some rock crawling, and the GX isn't my daily anymore, so I went with steel. They look competent, we'll see how they do on the rocks.

You have ROCKs in Minnesota?? Thought you only had LAKEs!!

 

[BigSwede]

You have ROCKs in Minnesota?? Thought you only had LAKEs!!

Glacial erratics, mostly.

But I go out west a couple times a year...

 

[PoindAxster]

Alright - I was wrong about the steel vs. aluminum debate in Vermont. Looks like aluminum is the metal of choice.

With that, I pulled the trigger on some RCI skids and will get on my back after my driveway thaws.

 

[Cold Iron]

You have ROCKs in Minnesota?? Thought you only had LAKEs!!

Besides Canadian shelf which is pure granite sheets sticking out of the ground plenty of moraine deposits too. We grow rocks as well with the frost heave sometimes in the middle of the road

Sometimes they are the road

But yeah the lakes are everywhere and get in the way more times than not. The lakes grow rocks too. View from the cabin the other side is the BWCA Wilderness.

BWCA Permits for 2025 became available last Wednesday and in 24 hours most were gone. Damn people, they are everywhere anymore.