Connections are not as strong as has to be and failed. Had to carry it all way back where riding started causing to scarb some of paint on my bike.

I got mine for my '08 Yamaha Raptor 700R. Very strong 1/4" thick aluminum takes a serious beating and doesn't even show a mark from a high speed impact with some serious rocks. It's a joke that the Raptor comes from Yamaha with a PLASTIC swing arm skid plate and a PLASTIC body skid guard. What a joke for a such a wonderful $7k quad. Metal skid guards are a necessity, especially in the northeast where it is rocky as hell. The stock swing arm guard holes are very small and thus the DG and other skid plates for the Raptor come with wussy thin bolts to hold on the skid plate. I installed my DG skid plate with blue loctite and it didn't even last two hours at the local atv park, Lost Trails (which is extremely rocky). The skid plate bolts loosened and came out and the skid plate fell off. It wasn't damaged though cause this thing is bulletproof. I reinstalled the skid plate, this time with plenty of red loctite, the stronger type, and I tightened the four new bolts that I got at Lowe's as tight as I possibly could. The skid has now taken a couple months of abuse and hasn't budged, so take note and be sure to tighten the four bolts as tight as you can and be sure to use the red loctite since the bolts really have a tendency to loosen and before you know it, you're skid plate will be dragging along on the ground.