havachat
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- Joined
- Jan 23, 2013
- Messages
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- Location
- near Healesville Victoria Australia
- Car Year
- 2002
- Car Model
- Forester SG
- Transmission
- 1.447 low range 4.44 diffs
Genuinely interested in what sort of terrain you would be driving where this would occur
I have a 6 mm construction grade aluminium bash plate and have landed heavily on it driving in sand hills and have put a bow in it. Soft sand does not rule out something solid or sharp being below it.
On the last trip I did on the Border Track & Big Desert one of our party fractured his Subaxtreme bash plate dropping off a sand hill. Hence he now has the same plate as I do.
A friend of mine puncture his sump on a rock and the motor was cooked before he realised he had a major issue.
As I said treat it as insurance. Small cost for protection.