Soft vs Hard durable Fender Flairs
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I managed to put a light wrinkle in my driver quarter panel when I rubbed the stock untrimmed flare on a rock. It's not very noticeable. It actually took me a few days to notice but it's there. Not sure there's a way to guarantee a light fender rub won't wrinkle your sheet metal, no mater which route you choose.
Only idea I have so far that doesn't add tons of weight is to lay up some carbon fiber skins over the exterior sheet metal (very involved process involving making a mold, vacuum bagging...etc) and then doing a color matched bed liner to the side. I would love to believe I have the ambition, time and money to pull that off, but I know me :/
In the mean time, I'm building my own tube fenders after I finish my front bumper project. My stock plastic flares are just too beat up and bent for my taste. Even if I trimmed them they'd look like crap.
Only idea I have so far that doesn't add tons of weight is to lay up some carbon fiber skins over the exterior sheet metal (very involved process involving making a mold, vacuum bagging...etc) and then doing a color matched bed liner to the side. I would love to believe I have the ambition, time and money to pull that off, but I know me :/
In the mean time, I'm building my own tube fenders after I finish my front bumper project. My stock plastic flares are just too beat up and bent for my taste. Even if I trimmed them they'd look like crap.
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Thanks for the feedback. I keep searching for stock takeoffs as i don't want to trim my painted fenders. (I've scraped them up on the trails already and fear that even trimmed I'm just going to keep making them look crappier) I prefer to trim the unpainted if possible and run those. the problem is that shipping costs too much from anyone who has them available.