so i'm having a hard time deciding whether or not to do something to my rig. mine is the Limited and so therefore it has all the painted extra body "dress up" pieces. i really like the look of them as it makes the xj look really clean and sharp.
so here's my dilemma... i can't decide whether or not i should just leave everything as it is.... or if i should take off the bumper pieces on the doors, take off the factory fender flares, modify the plastic of the front and rear bumpers, and then get some black Herculiner roll-on bedliner and do my rocker panels/lower doors with that. i kind of did that to my old rig and i really liked it as well. so now i'm torn......
so what do you all think?? i'm open to all opinions and other ideas!
If I were you, I would leave them on. At least the front flares and the door pieces. I like the looks of my ride, don't get me wrong. But when I bought mine it only had 3 of the 4 flares, so I took mine off. The rears arent that big of a deal. I would probably take them off. But the fronts, when you take them off you have to take off the cover's that cover up the windsheild washer pumps, and all the rest of the stuff up there. So in the winter, salt is eating at a bunch of stuff that was not intended to see. Also your tires will flip stuff all down the side of your rig all the time.
Just my 2 cents. I really like the looks of the ones that have the extra trim stuff on them.
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'99 XJ, 5.5" lift, 33" MT's '11 Dodge Charger
I miss the days that they made toys that could kill a kid.
My 2000 XJ also has the bedliner on the lower doors (both inside and out), rockers and tailgate. This was done by the previous owner. However, IMO, it sort of misses the point because I believe most of the real damage happens from the inside out, not from the outside in. Although I would agree that the bedliner helps with rock chips and damage of that kind. For example my drivers door has some rust starting where the door skin is folded over the door frame. I don't really know of a good way to retard that rusting process, so if anyone has some ideas, let me know.
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Steve Martinek SW Michigan.
2000 XJ Sport 2005 F350 6.0L Crew Cab 1983 CJ8 - frame off in (slow) progress 1967 Mustang Fastback - future project - waiting for CJ8 to get done
one note though, my inner fender liners have already been removed.... so those are non-existent regardless of what i do.
ok, so let me ask you this then. say i decide to leave it all on there..... what if i get creative with tape and still do the bedliner on the rockers, but also bring it up onto the fender flares and tie that all together..... any opinions on that idea?? or suggest a variation of that idea?
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SCORE!: 1996 Cherokee Sport, bone stock, excellent condition, one owner, with currently 47,000 ORIGINAL miles!!
CURRENTLY: 2001 Cherokee Limited 4-dr, 33" Uniroyal Liberator A/Ts, 6-8" well built custom lift (sorry, i haven't measured yet).
SOLD: Project Rig: 87 Cherokee Pioneer 4dr. bone stock now. coming soon: 3" budget lift, go completely doorless and chop the rear cargo area out.
hmmmm... well maybe i'll just bedliner the very lower rockers. from the pinch seam underneath, on up to that first bend in the doors. that'll at least give me a little rock chip and rust protection there....
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SCORE!: 1996 Cherokee Sport, bone stock, excellent condition, one owner, with currently 47,000 ORIGINAL miles!!
CURRENTLY: 2001 Cherokee Limited 4-dr, 33" Uniroyal Liberator A/Ts, 6-8" well built custom lift (sorry, i haven't measured yet).
SOLD: Project Rig: 87 Cherokee Pioneer 4dr. bone stock now. coming soon: 3" budget lift, go completely doorless and chop the rear cargo area out.
You could do suttle mods like trimming off the lower portion of bumper caps and removing the air dam from under the frt bumper. Then remove body side mouldings. Some bedliner can be painted or even comes in white too.
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99 sport. rust bucket, DD, 3 car seats 04 wj (w/3 car seats too) DD duty for the lady
id agree with threeEs on trimming and all. i wouldn't do anything to drastic with a rig that clean even though i do like the painted look below the trim line.
mess around in photoshop see if you cant find something that you like
one note though, my inner fender liners have already been removed.... so those are non-existent regardless of what i do.
ok, so let me ask you this then. say i decide to leave it all on there..... what if i get creative with tape and still do the bedliner on the rockers, but also bring it up onto the fender flares and tie that all together..... any opinions on that idea?? or suggest a variation of that idea?
Don't they offer colored bedliner stuff? Go with white to keep the clean look. If you get bumpers, repaint them white as well. If you don't like it you can always repaint them black.
Keep the salt off of your Jeep, it'll last longer. Gotta love my '92 Honda 'winter car' for that reason. Of course, if it's blizzarding, then Jeep gets to play in the snow a bit.
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My Fleet 1996 XJ "Snowball"- 3.5" lift, bunch of little mods. I hate pegleg rear axles! 1974 AMC Javelin "Jade Grenade"- 360v8, 4sp, green inside and out. Underfunded Project. 2009 Kawsaki Vulan 900 "Rocket III"- Summer DD