P1000 Skid plate really needed?

[TimG]

I just got mine yesterday. Modquad or Open Trail "same skid plate" full skid 1/2 " UHMW. I have felt the floorboard being hit too many times.

 

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[DaddyDubbs]

If the skids on the P1000 are like the skids that WERE on my P5, run, don't walk to your online source and get some good one ordered. Those factory skids in my opinion are just decorative.

Granted the 1K has better ground clearance than the P5 however here are photos of the factory P5 skids after Takeover last year

Replaced with 3/8" UHMW center skids and Ricochet Aluminum Rocksliders and A-Arm guards

 

[Cuoutdoors]

I have been putting this off myself in order to get other upgrades. After an incedent this summer it has become a priority must do along with A-arm guards.

On one of our night rides with @906UP we came to a deep rutted mud hole. Not ones to avoid the deep spots we both went on threw with @906 leading the way, I dropped the left front in the rut and crawled threw it with no problem until coming out of the hole the front end came down and then a loud BANG along with a glancing blow to my left leg. In the trench down in the mud the lower A-arm picked up a broken tree branch about 6' long, it had gotten trapped between the upper A arm and the axle when the front end came down it stabbed in the ground shoving it through the inner fender by the foot rest hitting the side off my leg.

This was a huge eye opener to the potential for injury from lack of protection from the floor boards and wheel well areas.

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@neohio has some pictures of just how bad this can be.

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[Neohio]

@neohio has some pictures of just how bad this can be.

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Yep.
No one injured. But went right thru fender, glove box, seat back, and stopped at the front of the bed.

 

[TimG]

Yep.
No one injured. But went right thru fender, glove box, seat back, and stopped at the front of the bed.

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Holy Stick Up Batman ! Dayum, glad nobody was hurt. I'm glad I spent the money now for sure.

 

[0860silverado]

Yep.
No one injured. But went right thru fender, glove box, seat back, and stopped at the front of the bed.

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GOOD LAWD!!! Yeah man...glad no one was in that seat. Eye-opening for sure.

 

[aprils_fool]

Yep.
No one injured. But went right thru fender, glove box, seat back, and stopped at the front of the bed.

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Thats just scary!! Glad to hear no one was hurt

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