Powerful 4x4 products I purchased not of merchantable quality as they describe!!!

I've got a powerfull rear bar and fitted it myself, it was a pain in the ass to fit but went on with no mods. the only issue I have had was the one of the latches holding the wheel carrier in the locked position's welds broke but was an easy fix. I had looked into millweld rear bars but they were the same price with no wheel carrier or jerry can holder but this was a few yrs back not sure on prices now but I was also told by millweld that if i got the rear bar only and wanted to add a wheel holder I'd have to send them the bar or get it made local .. An that sounded like to much work lol maybe the newer bar is fudged?

I also have a dual wheel carrier bar and so far so good, it has taken a couple of hits and still is hanging in, fingers crossed it will last a lot longer.

Dont get me wrong, im happy with the bull bar... Just wish i could mount the fairlead.

Yeah that's surprising as most fairleads are a common size and bolt spacing

I went though the same crap with powerful4x4. I cant believe there allowed to keep selling crap like this and getting away with it. I bought a roof rack which has rusted out from the inside out. This only took 3 months to show up and now has a hole you can put your finger in.

I also got a rear bar at the same time which has never fitted properly, crack in 2 places and is rusting everywhere. The duel jerry can holders are to small in size to even fit one jerry can let alone 2. When the morons had the made they actually made the holders to the size of the common jerry can they didn't make it so a jerry can would fit in them. lol

The rear bar I'm going to modify and fix myself and get it sandblasted and paint it myself. The roof rack I'm going to pull off and throw in the bin as it's actually not repairable it's that bad.

I gave up on trying to get anything done about it and I really didn't want to replace one piece of crap with another.

Cheers Mick.

Powerful 4x4 have a range of rear bars from El Cheapo to what they call Premium.
Having toured the Kaymar facilities, The powerful products would not come close to Quality
The big 3 that do rear bars are pricey $$$ but they fit, they last too. might add Kaymar dont warrant
their rear bars for stabilizers, which can lead to breakages.YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR AGAIN.
Never heard a bad report about any MILWELD product

You do get what you pay for but there's no way in hell a rear bar is worth $5000 or more like ARB or Kaymar are selling them for and they do break just like the cheaper ones. I would rather buy a cheap bar and mod it to suit and know it will be as good as a Kaymar for half the price when finished.

As for the roofracks when I bought mine they where the same price as ARB and TJM but they didn't have an option for spot lights and a roof top tent at the time.

Cheers Mick.

With you on that Mick overpriced to the max IMO

I've never even heard of these dudes? Definitely won't be looking them up either!
Totally agree the big name brands out there are way way over priced for what you get. When it comes time for wifeys Prado ill be going to a local steel fabricator


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Originally Posted by mick.

You do get what you pay for but there's no way in hell a rear bar is worth $5000 or more like ARB or Kaymar are selling them for and they do break just like the cheaper ones. I would rather buy a cheap bar and mod it to suit and know it will be as good as a Kaymar for half the price when finished.
Cheers Mick.

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Your not paying $5000 for just the bar, its the service, warrenty, customer care and piece if mind which costs...
Pay peanuts, gets monkeys.. and the last time I was at the zoo, the monkey didn't make a good customer service person...

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