OUR 4X4S Vehicle: Isuzu D-Max GO2 Year: 2018 Run by: Alan Kidd Last update: June 2021 On the fleet since: January 2020
Let it slide… A FEW YEARS AGO, we were doing a photoshoot with a Ford Ranger that had just been built into a topend off-road adventure machine by one of the best known specialists in the country. The site we used was a pretty gnarly one but the truck was more than capable of getting about. The ground was rough, though, and eventually the inevitable happened. While easing his way through, the truck’s owner dropped one of its wheels into a rut and as it fell in, its sill caught the lip with a glancing blow. Not the sort of impact that would stop it in its tracks – but enough to plant a fist sized dent right in the middle of it. Not nice, and not a happy owner. But when you’ve got a vehicle with a long wheelbase, its sills are going
to be more vulnerable than ever – to the extent that not fitting a set of rock sliders is an omission you struggle to comprehend. We didn’t want that happening to our Isuzu D-Max GO2. So a set of sliders was definitely on the must-have list – which was fine by Isuzu UK when we were planning the build with them, because they had exactly that on their list of official accessories. The sliders are a tubular design, with no box to be seen anywhere. They’re designed with three mounts each, which clamp to the chassis rails via heavy-duty plates made from steel channel, then up top they’re skinned off with chequer plate to provide a step that’s reasonably non-slip.
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The sliders are fitted with no welding required, which says a lot for the strength their mounts need to have. In particular, as they go on it’s impossible not to notice the difference in the size and purpose of said mounts – which need to be able to take the whole weight of the
vehicle as it comes down sharply on a rock or tree stump. Not that we were intending to do anything like that to it, of course. But then, neither was matey that time with his Ranger…
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