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redz 1970 K5 05-06-2007 06:10 PM

Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
I am going to put on extend-a-fenders onto my Sub to keep Johnny Law happy. I for the life of me, cannot find any pics of a 73-87 with extend-a-fender flares. I had cutout flares on an older truck, but these are only about 1.5" extend a fenders.

redz 1970 K5 05-06-2007 06:32 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
Ok, here is a pic of what I ordered...

http://www.rockymountainsusp.com/SL_79GM8.jpg

Now, should I paint the flares white to match the bottom or grey to match the middle? I am leaning towards painting them white. Opinions?

http://www.intergate.com/~rpurcell/burb/burb_clean1.JPG

Srubydo1986 05-06-2007 06:49 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
paint them chrome. Only cause i like chrome

dubdeuce80 05-06-2007 06:57 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
why not both? i'd go with the paint scheme...

benoit454 05-06-2007 07:30 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
Here's some warn 4x flares on the 86 we had.


http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/IMG_0925.jpg

Restrorob 05-06-2007 07:40 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
I concur with dubdeuce on both colors, I think it would look sweeet like that. It wouldn't throw either color off.

N2TRUX 05-06-2007 11:19 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
I would paint them grey to match the middle. The majority of the flare will be in contact with the grey. White will stick out like a sore thumb and break the lines up way too much.

redz 1970 K5 05-08-2007 10:01 AM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
Here is a sub with the same flares. I actually really like them.

http://carad.ebayimg.com/i6/02/a/000/77/73/be4a_4.JPG

redz 1970 K5 05-11-2007 11:10 AM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by N2TRUX (Post 2162207)
I would paint them grey to match the middle. The majority of the flare will be in contact with the grey. White will stick out like a sore thumb and break the lines up way too much.

After much scrutiny, I decided to go with the metallic grey for the flares aka WA8798. I think you are right N2TRUX... I am still on the fence, but I think the final deciding factor was that the white would probably look pretty horrible when it's dirty and older, whereas the grey will not show dirt as much and look better further down the road.

garysouthlake 05-11-2007 11:44 PM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
Definitely white flares. White will follow the flow with your lower panels and make for nice, clean lines.................

N2TRUX 05-12-2007 09:03 AM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by redz 1970 K5 (Post 2169476)
.... I think the final deciding factor was that the white would probably look pretty horrible when it's dirty and older, whereas the grey will not show dirt as much and look better further down the road.

My wife has a white 03 Denali which has the factory ground effects, with flares built in. The truck is immaculate, but the inside of the flares look like crap because of the thousands of little rock chips.

On your truck it would be worse because of the height
of the truck puts the chipped up flares at eye level.

redz 1970 K5 05-14-2007 09:31 AM

Re: Can anyone show off their fender flares?
 
I dropped them off at the body shop on Friday. I will post pics when I get them installed. I went ahead and test fit and notched them for the trim ahead of time. Bushwacker's instructions were to have the flares painted first??? I am not that brave.


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