Thread: HD Steering Rods - TerraFirma vs Bearmach vs

Originally Posted by OffTrack

What about the QT items?

Summer Special ~ Disco II Heavy Duty Steering Bar Package - Drag Links - Steering - Land Rover Discovery Series II - Qt Services

They also do a bolt on damper bracket.

Now you are talking Dave makes some nice stuff.

QT is Almost the Maxi drive of the uk

Check rovingtracks http://www.rovingtracks.com/products/steering.html

Great gear.

Originally Posted by Reads90

Would always put maxi drive over Terrifirma

After all Terrifirma are just a department at AllMakes that copies stuff from other companies and makes it in china.

Always? So in this case where the Terrafirma units are $250.00 and the Maxi Drive units at $650.00, you reckon the Maxi Drive units are worth the additional $400.00?

Originally Posted by OffTrack

What about the QT items?

Summer Special ~ Disco II Heavy Duty Steering Bar Package - Drag Links - Steering - Land Rover Discovery Series II - Qt Services

They also do a bolt on damper bracket.

Cheers.

I've decided to go with the Paddock Spares unit due to their price. They're 2/3rds of the price of all the other UK offerings and 1/6th of the price of the Australian Maxi Drive. Paddock Spares also do the cheapest freight from the UK out of all the places I have received freight quotes from.
From what I understand the heavy duty steering rod is just a solid rod, so I don't see that there can be much differences in quality to justify spending the additional.
Plus the Paddock Spares unit has the mounting for the steering dampener to be retained so saves me chasing up a bolt on mount...
Will let you know about the products quality and performance once I have it (in approximately 8 days).

Originally Posted by twr7cx

Always? So in this case where the Terrafirma units are $250.00 and the Maxi Drive units at $650.00, you reckon the Maxi Drive units are worth the additional $400.00?

I know the bloke who runs Terrafirma so definitely yes

Originally Posted by twr7cx

Always? So in this case where the Terrafirma units are $250.00 and the Maxi Drive units at $650.00, you reckon the Maxi Drive units are worth the additional $400.00?

Did you actually get some other MD quotes ?

It's been ten years since I bought any, but they sure as hell weren't that exxy at the time and I like the design of them, using pinch clamps instead of jam nuts.

Originally Posted by OffTrack

More like they have zero internet presence so no-one except the old skool Landie owners know they exist.

ADD: The only information I can find on Maxi-Drive is forum posts discussing that the business was shutting down in 2007-8.

ADD2: MR Automotive appear to have acquired the name, and are manufacturing "Maxi-Drive" parts. Maxi-Drive Land Rover accessories, Land Rover used parts, Land Rover spare parts suppliers for Brisbane, Queensland and Australia wide

They install Maxdrive rear locking diffs and Maxdrive HD axles. Not sure about the front. Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

They install Maxdrive rear locking diffs and Maxdrive HD axles. Not sure about the front. Bob

Bob, MR have taken over the manufacturing of almost all the Maxi Drive bits including lockers except for the axles and drive flanges which is what Hi-Tough Engineering do