Installed APT Front Guard and Air Compressor Guard on D4

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Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Inspection of what? To me its a drain hole for water, mud etc. Theres nothing to "inspect" at that point and the hole is too small to see anything anyway. The steel belly pan fitted with my ARB 'bar and the factory plastic "guard" for the transmission also has similar drain holes.

APT is good gear, still have the rocksliders on my wishlist....

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I agree Eric, I couldn’t see the purpose of the hole or what you would be looking for...it is most likely a remnant of the past. As to the toughness of the factory sump plate...it did look to be reasonable, but it is all relative to what it may bash up against. One area not to neglect is the Air Compressor and the APT kit is worth looking at. Ben has put together some informative install videos for all the kit APT Offroad

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Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Perhaps, but imho the tranmission bash plate is a plastic one that is not suitable for anything but light gravel rash protection on unsealed roads.

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Mine disappeared. One day was looking under there and it was gone. I'm not sure if it fell off or somebody failed to refit it after some service work. The APT guard is certainly better.

I reckon it was left off. It has 6 bolts holding it on and is wedged under the front plate.