Oils and oils Sol, and it turns out aluminium isn't aluminium either, and this is why it pays to have a team of engineers on your side.
We've got the awesome team at Milford Industries on our side, thankfully, and that literally guarantees that our bash plates, or Under Vehicle Protection (UVP) kits for the Isuzu D-MAX, MU-X and their twin-beneath-the-skin Mazda BT-50, are the best on the market.
The welded on rear mounts for the front bash plate in both the Triton and Pajero Sport, are well known failure points when upgrading the stock vehicle's under body protection.
Light weight and welded on by the work experience robot, breaking them is as easy as fitting upgraded, thicker and thus stiffer plates, and then waiting a while. If they survive that, hits out on the tracks will likely bring them unstuck at some stage in the future.
Do you remember the Buffalo Bill dance scene from Silence Of The Lambs? If you don’t, then go and have a quick Google of Youtube vids and meet me back here in five.
There are many lessons you can learn from this iconic sliver of cinematic brilliance, like don’t go door knocking for a cup of sugar, buy a bigger dog and that weird dude down the road in the funky smelling house, is best left alone. The most important lesson of all though, is for anyone looking to head off-road in their fourby, and it's simple as this.
