Do they hold up well or is that something I should replace before heading to Moab?
OEM skid plates...how good are they? (2 Viewers)
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I'm surprised no one has responded to this. I was wondering the same thing. When I bought my 2006 LC100 the front skid plate was gone and the mounting bolts were broken off. I removed the underbelly plate so I could replace the catalytic converters and when I tried to re-install it, one of the bolts broken off while trying to tighten it. I am trying to decide if I should replace the "splash guards" (as Toyota calls them) with the factory ones or just get something better. It's all plastic so I can't see it providing any real protection except from flying rocks or something. My underbelly pan was missing part of the protection on the back ends because, apparently, the PO drug them on something and tore them off. That should give you an indication of their lack of protection. I am just trying to find something a little better but not too heavy as I don't expect to do any extreme off-road driving.
On my 98, the front plate is metal but the plate is thin. The plate under the engine is plastic. I think these are more for aerodynamic instead of protection vs rocks.
Depends on what trails you do. If technical terrain, probably yes.
Agreed.
Depending on the trail and the driver, Moab is generally easy on skid plates. Rear bumpers and sliders are far more important that skid plates for Moab, in my opinion.
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Next step up would probably be TJM "Guards"... utilizing 3mm steel.
Slee has aluminum front and mid plates available - I went with the aluminum front skid.
I can't seem to find a reasonably priced skid plate in the United States. I don't think the aluminum ones will hold up and the steel ones weigh a frickin ton. I've already got too much weight on the old girl. My factory one lasted to 150k, I was going to get another one of those, until I found out it cost almost as much as the Slee aluminum ones.
Not sure what to do wither,
Not sure what to do wither,
Stay on the lookout for other forum members adding armor. My original was in pretty bad shape so I bought the one @cmck pulled off his rig when he upgraded. Bonus if you can find someone local and avoid shipping.
Guess it depends on what you're doing, but I've crawled all over rocks with the Slee aluminum skid with zero issues - it's plenty strong and quite light.
Ditto, I do the rock gardens at Rausch Creek in the pa and while I do take hits the slee aluminum front and mid plate are hanging tough.
I just assumed the aluminum would get the crap knocked out. I am in south florida, down here there are no rocks, or big hills. Really deep mud, which covers really sharp coral when you bottom out. It's a little different then what most of the other guys here encounter. But after some looking I've found some cool trails.
I gues I will be visiting the slee website today.
I gues I will be visiting the slee website today.
I've beat on mine pretty hard and aside from some superficial scrapes, it's as good as new.
I went with a full set of skid plates from Mike at Bump it Off Road. Very happy, reasonable, and since I'm close I was able to drive up and have Mike install them ...
