tuffluv

Contemplating pros/cons of metal and plastic aftermarket flat fenders. Suggestions?

JayhawkJeep

Just trim your stock ones

sm_rubi

Just an opinion but I've ripped my chopped oem off the jeep before and had a rig go over on it's side with chopped oem fenders in both cases I think they did better than the metal fenders would have done. In my case the tree could have caused some minor body damage and in our friends case the side panels would have been toast...in that case the oem fenders just buckled and a day later we reinstalled them with new clips.

If you go with the metal fender/body armor combo like the ones Off Road Evolution sells it probably would be better than just metal fenders. Again just my

dpoelstra

http://www.poisonspyder.com/prod-jkf...sherflares.php

This what I decided on. Steel, VERY sturdy. I could jump on these things.

Alec

I'd either trim the stock ones or go whole-hog and get metal fender/panel replacements. An issue that's been brought up on this forum is that metal fenders only are probably too strong and inflexible for the stock supporting panels, so go with full corners that replace or overlay the stock sheetmetal.