Front and Rear (Lower) Control Arm Guards

[Land Rover Joe]

Tribe,

I am wondering if anyone has experience with such control arm guards?

Prospeed seems to be the one manufacture that makes this - you can see these at:

DISCOVERY 3 & 4 REAR ARM GUARDS

Aluminium guards to protect the rear a-arms of your Land Rover Discovery 3 or Discovery 4.

prospeed.co.uk

DISCOVERY 3 & 4 FRONT ARM GUARDS

Aluminium guards to protect the front a-arms of your Discovery 3 or Discovery 4.

prospeed.co.uk

Their website shows them as sold out but I don't really know if these are useful in any way. I cannot really imagine protecting the control arms and don't know of anyone who has bashed their arms up...but perhaps this is a problem (especially with rock crawling).

There have been a couple folks on this forum who mentioned them but nothing substantive.

Just looking for folks experience and preferences - many thanks!

 

[greiswig]

I’ve beaten my control arms up pretty badly. The seem fine.

 

[Al Pizzica]

In hundreds of hours off roading I have never seen a failure related to not having a control arm guards, like @greiswig said, they aren't something that can't take a few hits. Plus, anything that would damage them would not be stopped from doing so by these.

 

[mm3846]

Never in my life have I thought to cover 1/4” or 3/16” thick steel with 1/8” of aluminum lol

 

[MellonRover]

Overlanding jewlery

 

[Rover Range]

Just a big mud catcher.