Avanteone
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- Auburn, WA
Has anybody installed a set of these?
http://shop.hooliganoffroadengineering.com/XJ-Full-Set-of-Tube-Fenders-XJ-Fender-Full-Set.htm
The product quality and fitment is absolutely horrendous. If I had spent this type of money on a product that fit like this, I'd swallow my pride and pay the freight to ship it back. This is a customers rig though, and he wants to keep them. You can't have a countersunk hole in sheet metal, there isn't enough material for the bolt to hold, especially when you're pulling the fender into the flare as they don't fit correctly. The countersunk part of the bolt goes through the two layers of sheet metal and the nut bottoms on them before even being tight. The fenders on an XJ are rounded, these flares are not. The brakes on these fenders appear to have been done in a vise, not in the proper equipment. The cut/radius at the door opening is nowhere near a match. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea and the look, but if this is something you're considering purchase, be advised there is LOTS of extra time required to make them fit even decent, and even then the contours aren't right. I'm hoping this is something the vendor can improve on, for sure! The instructions sure are written with a sense of humor, though.
John
http://shop.hooliganoffroadengineering.com/XJ-Full-Set-of-Tube-Fenders-XJ-Fender-Full-Set.htm
The product quality and fitment is absolutely horrendous. If I had spent this type of money on a product that fit like this, I'd swallow my pride and pay the freight to ship it back. This is a customers rig though, and he wants to keep them. You can't have a countersunk hole in sheet metal, there isn't enough material for the bolt to hold, especially when you're pulling the fender into the flare as they don't fit correctly. The countersunk part of the bolt goes through the two layers of sheet metal and the nut bottoms on them before even being tight. The fenders on an XJ are rounded, these flares are not. The brakes on these fenders appear to have been done in a vise, not in the proper equipment. The cut/radius at the door opening is nowhere near a match. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea and the look, but if this is something you're considering purchase, be advised there is LOTS of extra time required to make them fit even decent, and even then the contours aren't right. I'm hoping this is something the vendor can improve on, for sure! The instructions sure are written with a sense of humor, though.
John
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depending on if its steel or aluminum it's time to break out a dolly and a hammer and contour it by hand... Swap out the bolts and use washers
