[squawbanger]

anyone got the OEM skidplates that you may have removed for upgrades.
want mostly for rocks
my dealer doesn't have them in stock.

 

[Creek]

seriously, for rocks???? They'll get bent and mangled the first time you go offroad and hit any rocks. Go Shrockworks for real protection.

 

[KillJoy]

courtesy nissan online will have them pretty inexpensive. check them out online. shrock is better but when you're on a budget, you could double up some of the oem skids for less than a quarter of jim's stuff. i doubled a few and they have done all right.

 

[squawbanger]

not rock crawling.
limestone & granite coming up going fairly high speed.
traveling forest roads
Saturday a buddy of mine took a softball sized rock to the
oil pan on his Pathy & punctured.
Luckily we had liquid metal to seal with us.
We lucked out when a guy in a F150 had 2 qts of oil to add to our 4.
we got it out of the woods & he drove 120 miles home.
Mostly worried about the radiator & especially my plastic gas tank.
OEM would probably do.

 

[B REAL]

I might be reading it wrong but courtesyparts.com has the gas tank skid for like $174. The schrock one is only $198....why not go for the best?

http://www.courtesyparts.com/Mercha...=PROD&Product_Code=50890-FSP00&Category_Code=

http://www.shrockworks.com/Gen2-Gas-Tank-Skid-Plate-Xterra-&-Frontier-pr-16181.html

 

[KillJoy]

i did say some, plus when it comes to our wonderful plastic gas tank, i actually called jim for that one.

 

[krucam]

Shrock, black powdercoated and shipped = $264
OEM, black =$175 + $100 shipping (WTF?) = $275 shipped

Seem like a no-brainer for the gas tank skid.

 

[Muzikman]

It's amazing how expensive it is to ship the stock plates. I got an initial quote from UPS and Fed-ex based on rough size and weight, they told me $50 to ship ground. After I had them boxed up and already sold, I took them to ship them and it ended up being $98 to ship. The gas tank skid causes them to be an oversize package, even though the entire box didn't weigh more than 30 lbs.

Any way, be that a warning to anyone who tries to ship their OEM skids, the gas tank skid costs a lot.

 

[Graytshirt]

Not to change the subject, but I sell a lot of things on eBay and often times have over sized packages. I've found that FedEx ground tends to be a little cheaper when shipping oversized ground packages. Just thought I'd share that with you all...

 

[Muzikman]

That's what I shipped my OEM skids. They were $2 cheaper than UPS.

But I do agree, FedEx many times is cheaper than DHL or UPS (unless you are talking international shipping and then DHL is cheaper).