amschind
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So, good news first: I got ALL of my cats replaced with a pair of 49 state Flowmasters and so far no codes; will update on that separately.
Bad news: While attempting to park near the fully occupied exhaust shop, I found an 18" tall unmarked fire hydrant in the middle of the neighboring parking lot. In my defense, people in the Heights (and Houston globally) drive like I drive in a video game, so I was too preoccupied looking for cars going down a residential street at 50 to see this thing. The bottom of the Passenger door and the front quarter panel behind the tire both have 1" deep gouge/dents and the paint is about how you'd expect. It only affects the bottom 3-4" of the panels, so all you really notice is the messed up black paint; the door works fine.
I don't want to pour $5k into a part of the truck that's gonna take more hits. I have a great body shop nearby, and I'm gonna try to work with them to fix this without going overboard. Making it look new is, in my opinion, a foolish and short lived option given the fact that this truck is gonna be a straight up farm truck in the next 18 months, and stumps hate rocker panels even more that sneaky fire hydrants. So I am trying to get creative, and I wanted to collect some thoughts.
My wheels wheels have maybe 0.5-1" more poke than stock, and I have stock sized KO2s. I currently have Gatorback mud flaps all around, but have considered Air Design fender flares. I have a local vendor who can trial fit some to make sure that they will clear the brush guard on my front bumper, but my big question for the forum is whether the 2" of coverage from the fender flares will look awful with stock poke on my wheels. Bushwhacker makes a more reasonable set of fender flares that would match the wheels better, so that's also an option. If that works, then my plan is to get the body shop to pound out the dent as best they can, and THEN I'll move forward with my 2 year old plan to get bed-liner on the rocker panels so that I'm not paying a crew of appropriately compensated artisans to repaint my whole door and quarter panel.
The key question is which fender flare, specifically related to a SLIGHTLY greater than stock poke wheel. Any thoughts are appreciated, but since this is so subjective pictures are even better.
Bad news: While attempting to park near the fully occupied exhaust shop, I found an 18" tall unmarked fire hydrant in the middle of the neighboring parking lot. In my defense, people in the Heights (and Houston globally) drive like I drive in a video game, so I was too preoccupied looking for cars going down a residential street at 50 to see this thing. The bottom of the Passenger door and the front quarter panel behind the tire both have 1" deep gouge/dents and the paint is about how you'd expect. It only affects the bottom 3-4" of the panels, so all you really notice is the messed up black paint; the door works fine.
I don't want to pour $5k into a part of the truck that's gonna take more hits. I have a great body shop nearby, and I'm gonna try to work with them to fix this without going overboard. Making it look new is, in my opinion, a foolish and short lived option given the fact that this truck is gonna be a straight up farm truck in the next 18 months, and stumps hate rocker panels even more that sneaky fire hydrants. So I am trying to get creative, and I wanted to collect some thoughts.
My wheels wheels have maybe 0.5-1" more poke than stock, and I have stock sized KO2s. I currently have Gatorback mud flaps all around, but have considered Air Design fender flares. I have a local vendor who can trial fit some to make sure that they will clear the brush guard on my front bumper, but my big question for the forum is whether the 2" of coverage from the fender flares will look awful with stock poke on my wheels. Bushwhacker makes a more reasonable set of fender flares that would match the wheels better, so that's also an option. If that works, then my plan is to get the body shop to pound out the dent as best they can, and THEN I'll move forward with my 2 year old plan to get bed-liner on the rocker panels so that I'm not paying a crew of appropriately compensated artisans to repaint my whole door and quarter panel.
The key question is which fender flare, specifically related to a SLIGHTLY greater than stock poke wheel. Any thoughts are appreciated, but since this is so subjective pictures are even better.
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