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Found em finally, they even make trail worthy nerf bars.. I'm so happy right now I just wanted to share it with ya'll since I know I've inspired a couple of more rugged Q7 uses lately..
I'll be armoring everything up and going to 31.5in wheels this year, was about to pay someone to make all this stuff but now I can just bolt it on, oah yeah.. If anyone in Colorado wants to combine on some shipping DM me.
Last edited by dreadlocks; 01-05-2021 at 11:52 PM.
There's an VAG offroad group on FB, Eurowise has been making all kinds of awesome stuff.
Dread- post up pix of that front skid plate after you install it. I'm having a hard time correlating how it will work on a Q7.
I talked to some vendor in the EU about their plates as well but they weren't shipping to the US last year....I need to follow up to that.
EDIT: here it is: https://www.skid-plate.com/audi-q7-skid-plate
Eurowise is based out of North Carolina and it was just a couple hundred in shipping for a pallet full of steel plates here to Colorado so its much better than most things I found out of Australia or Europe that wanted more for the shipping than the metal.
I could come up with an excuse to make a road trip to NC too and just bring em back in the trailer.. I've never had a FB account so if everyone there knows about this then well then screw you guys for keeping this a secret. :P
Last edited by dreadlocks; 01-06-2021 at 06:41 PM.
...I could come up with an excuse to make a road trip to NC too and just bring em back in the trailer.. I've never had a FB account so if everyone there knows about this then well then screw you guys for keeping this a secret. :P
That might explain why you're lurking here....though I appreciate it, forums are a way better venue than FB. Knowing that I'll post up cool things I see linked from FB in the future. You'll have to post up fitment pix.
On a related note, the skid-plate.com guys got back to me- they're still not shipping to the US.
I think the pricing is reasonable for all it, having hired pro welders for custom one-offs many times already I was expecting to pay ~800-1k for just the front skid plate and transfer case plate.. Eurowise wants ~$700
And with me being in Colorado if I ever found myself parting this vehicle out, I know I could find a Tregg or Cayenne who'll snap em off craigslist in a heartbeat so its not like many mods that are fully sunk and will never be recovered.
Guess who's gonna try to fit a winch this summer? This was eurowise's reply when I asked em if he thought the Treg winch mount would fit my Audi:
I think it would work! We made these work with both cayenne and Touareg bumpers so I’d imagine q7 will work too
I'd lose the font camera for sure, and would need to be careful selecting a winch so it didn't impact my ACC sensor, would use a winch w/a control box I can relocate to inside the engine bay and w/remote clutch since access to it will be hard (not cheap)..
Judging by the photos of the treg and using the tow hook as a reference point I think this is where it'll end up being:
Considering we don't get manual locking TC/Diffs on the Audi having a hidden winch would really give me a confidence boost to explore some interesting trail solo a few thousand miles from home.. don't expect it to get much use with as cautious as I am in this vehicle, but its that piece of mind that will make it worthwhile.
Last edited by dreadlocks; 01-14-2021 at 11:30 AM.
01-05-2021, 11:49 PM
Metal Skidplates
