$200 for a battery tray????

Yep 2 to 3mm and pressed.

Nope

Bit of crappy metal, very definitely pressed and has a bolt to replac airbox mount. If I had a press (mate living 600k away does), I'd press one out of stainless and it would still be cheaper.

Dave O

Stainless would be no good --- very brittle steel --- all the flexing it would do - this material would crack and break in no time ----

better of with mild steel - $180 is a little steep - im sure you can get one made up at any sheet metal place for half that

Boc

Hey Willem if he still has it and wants to be rid of it, point him my way. I have enough projects to keep me busy without having to build a battery tray.

Oh hang on the GQ one won't fit I tried. Sorry didn't read properly

Captain,

Thats exactly the price I expected. I think I was once quoted $130 which is expensive, but I would have paid that.

Dave O

From expereince - take a look at Pirahna. They have plenty of additional support both vertical and horizontal which is important.

Peter

My ARB one was $80 some time ago, I was quoted $130 for TJM and would expect about $100 now from ARB

Hey! I resemble that remark.

Yeah will look into it for sure.

hope you walk off the end...lol lol lol

ok mr scaffolding contractor let me know how much i owe you for the plank! lol

Eddy

Nothing. This is auxilliary battery- setting up a new vehicle.

David

Thanks for that there are plenty of good support spots.

regarding the thinner metal being used nowadays, i remember doing some work on an old 1975 holden farm ute with an angle grinder. you could almost use the offcuts to make an axe, but not anymore,recently some dick in a 4wd stationwagon ignored me while on a pedestrian crossing in a supermarket. i drove my palm into the side of his vehicle not to cause any damage but just to make him more carefull around pedestrians on crossings next time... hell, i got the shock of my life , it all just fell inwards like aluminium foil, but luckily for me returned to original shape. i still cant get over the feel of it, so thin it must flap in the breeze when driven

I had the same drama with mine. I've recently moved the 2nd battery into the cargo area so I could re-mount my dual bypass oil system in the engine bay (and the spot where the dual battery sat was the only area big enough). I have now made a bracket for the dual bypass gear to attach to the battery tray, but when mucking around I found that the 2 captive nuts on the inner guard have completely broken away and also 2 of the 3 captive nuts that the tray itself was secured to, were also broken away. So the only thing really holding the battery tray in place was one captive nut plus the strut from the battery's own bracket to the 10mm bolt on the inner guard join (just under the edge of the bonnet).

Bloody hell it sure is thin metal!!!!!

Makes you wonder how they stand the battering we give em at al.l

Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately the space for the battery tray in a 3.0 is much smaller and the other trays don't fit. I tried :-)

I am sure I will be able to make one up without trouble, just time.

Damn!!! for a Patrol GU with a 3.0 litre engine?

I need to search around some more obviously.

Sorry, fits everything except 3litre and Ti models,

rolande