New Bash Plate
Sometime between last 4×4 trip and a week ago I noticed that my front bash plate was missing. I started to search through my 4×4 trip photos, but none of the photos had close up’s of under the front of the car, so I couldn’t make out whether or not it was still on by the end of the trip. It was only when walking back to the car last sunday after food shopping that I noticed something was odd/missing and thats when i realised the bash plate had gone. 
Getting a new one was more of a challange then first expected. Firstly all the wreckers I visited had barely any Hilux’s to start of with and most certainly didn’t have any bash plates. Then I thought I’ll look into getting an aftermarket one, well that was just as hard as finding one from the wreckers. They all had the 2005 onwards ones but most had stopped making the one I was after. There was one place up in Queensland, so I did keep that in the back of my mind which came to $410 approx (including delivery). The next thing to do was call Toyota themselves and see if they still made them and then see how much it was going to be. Including GST it was just under $500. I was thinking I’m not paying that price. So then I started crawling the 4WD club web pages when I stumbled onto www.hiluxclub.org.au/ and they had a find apart page where it scowers all the wreckers and shops for you and comes back with a responce very quickly. I entered the information Saturday night and I had 2 responces by end of work Monday. For under half the price I drove out to Thomastown this morning to pick up my new (second hand) bash plate. Now I just have to install it.
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