AB
6th August 2017, 05:58 PM
I'm lost on how to do this properly. Finally had time to clean the car after Licola and the clay that gets caught up under the fold of the wheel arch is a nightmare to clean!
As some of you know I took off 30mm all around my wheel arches which meant the OEM wheel arch plastic guards underneath don't fit.
The OEM plastic guards that sit under the wheel arch on the front work a treat as they have tabs which sit just in between the arch metal fold and the flares.
Because I've completely changed the circumference so to speak you can't even cut them back to suit or even manipulate them to work.
So I've been driving around with no guards, dirt and mud is a nightmare to clean as it embeds into the guard fold and embeds into the door hinge area as It's all open as per pic below!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=72781&stc=1
The door hinge area is easy of course as you can just run a strip of plastic/rubber etc 150mm wide, easy done, even use existing OEM threads/holes!
I'm trying to work out an easy way to close off the right angle of the wheel arch fold where the flares mount.
I've mounted my flares with stainless steel rivets and I'm not overly keen on removing them all and changing the fixing to small bolts or similar to run the new plastic strip from the fold and close off that area.
Long story short, is there an option to run an extrusion/pinch weld set up you could run on the fold that uses the pinch weld to hold onto the fold and a triangle bulb to close off the right angle area of the guard fold?
You can buy the pinch weld style with a round bulb as below but the round bulb will just create another crevice higher up for mud.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=72782&stc=1
Can you get something like the above but the bulb in a triangle set up to not create a crevice and for ease of clean?
Like my high tech scaled drawing below...
Black is front view of arch, red is extrusion.
This would work great for the rear arches of everyone's GQ's too!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=72783&stc=1
Or does anyone have another idea...lol
As some of you know I took off 30mm all around my wheel arches which meant the OEM wheel arch plastic guards underneath don't fit.
The OEM plastic guards that sit under the wheel arch on the front work a treat as they have tabs which sit just in between the arch metal fold and the flares.
Because I've completely changed the circumference so to speak you can't even cut them back to suit or even manipulate them to work.
So I've been driving around with no guards, dirt and mud is a nightmare to clean as it embeds into the guard fold and embeds into the door hinge area as It's all open as per pic below!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=72781&stc=1
The door hinge area is easy of course as you can just run a strip of plastic/rubber etc 150mm wide, easy done, even use existing OEM threads/holes!
I'm trying to work out an easy way to close off the right angle of the wheel arch fold where the flares mount.
I've mounted my flares with stainless steel rivets and I'm not overly keen on removing them all and changing the fixing to small bolts or similar to run the new plastic strip from the fold and close off that area.
Long story short, is there an option to run an extrusion/pinch weld set up you could run on the fold that uses the pinch weld to hold onto the fold and a triangle bulb to close off the right angle area of the guard fold?
You can buy the pinch weld style with a round bulb as below but the round bulb will just create another crevice higher up for mud.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=72782&stc=1
Can you get something like the above but the bulb in a triangle set up to not create a crevice and for ease of clean?
Like my high tech scaled drawing below...
Black is front view of arch, red is extrusion.
This would work great for the rear arches of everyone's GQ's too!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=72783&stc=1
Or does anyone have another idea...lol