Glass Fender Peeps/ Bodyshop Folk… What’s my issue?

[Sitdown]

Glass Fender Peeps/ Bodyshop Folk… What’s my issue?

My new fenders haven't fared so well, and at this point mostly curious where the issue lies. My truck gets used often, so don’t expect it to be entering any carshows, but pretty certain other trucks that get driven harder and hold up better.


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Mostly curious if this is related mostly to one or a few of these:

1) Bodyshop related Prep & Paint?
2) Mounting method was too rigid, needs more freedom to flex?
3) fGlass Quality?
4) Given the abuse, is par for the course


Hole above headlight was likely inevitable, caught a rock at some point this winter/spring. The cracking above that area is my concern right now (both sides appeared after this weekends TimeAttack event). Also one side near a-pillar showed decent spidering early on. I know one side showed this prior to prep/installing, and shop did some additional work to that one. This other side might have just been overlooked. My stock fender touched down there and this split plastic (can see scuff from prev), though pretty sure this surfaced before Event abuse.

A friend’s bodyshop did them, and over a week saw that they did quite a bit of prep to them. Right now considering ditching the fenders in favor of another brand, or simply wrapping over the current flaws. Hope to figure where i went wrong to avoid going down the $ame road

Any opinions would be helpful, Gracias Amigos!

 

[Jimbo]

Yikes, I'm no help, but that SUCKS! Sorry Tom.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

Those are definitely stress cracks! You do a lot of jumping and shit? Probably dumb question, lol. Quality, quality, quality, doubt if its your friends prep work. Can actually see where the fender has moved and hit the "A" pillar or was that paint rubbed off during the install? I would get some more use out of them before wasting money wrapping them yet.

 

[Hazzard]

2) Mounting method was too rigid, needs more freedom to flex. and or needs gaped properly.


This is my opinion, I would pm Kirk (raptoraddict) and get his.

 

[Sitdown]

The a-pillar scuff was from my orig OE fenders, I split one on that side and why i went the glass route.

I was mostly leaning towards my mounts, gap is a another thing to note around headlight area. The other flaws were what led me to question this more and thus post here...

 

[pat'sRAPTOR]

How much prep work did they do? If you sand them down too think they'll flex a lot and if you put too much paint on something like that it'll flex and cause the paint to crack it could also be the type of paint used.

 

[Jimbo]

How much prep work did they do? If you sand them down too think they'll flex a lot and if you put too much paint on something like that it'll flex and cause the paint to crack it could also be the type of paint used.

If I recall, they're able to add something like a flex additive to help with this, but depending on color, it may not match etc. depending on how much is used.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

If I recall, they're able to add something like a flex additive to help with this, but depending on color, it may not match etc. depending on how much is used.

You can add flex agent to anything, its used on all the cars bumpers, etc.

Im not thinking its needed for panels like this, they aren't made of rubber or plastic, not suppose to flex the same, lol.

 

[Jimbo]

You can add flex agent to anything, its used on all the cars bumpers, etc.

Im not thinking its needed for panels like this, they aren't made of rubber or plastic, not suppose to flex the same, lol.

However, with how are trucks are used, maybe it's a good thing to add?

 

[CoronaRaptor]

However, with how are trucks are used, maybe it's a good thing to add?

Definitely cant argue with you there. I think the OP maybe onto something with the way his glass is mounted.