Knocked the rear right fender off back on 7-12 at Evans Creek, used some generic push in holders from the hardware store and it worked for a wile. A couple of trips and 2 months later, the thing is acting like its giong to fall off again.

Any one know of a good and cheep way (home-made perhaps) way to keep these stock fender flairs on untill I can aford to buy some new ones?

 

Yeah....stick it back on and go do it again. It's called Jeepin.

 

when i took mine off all that held it on was those plastic push screw things, so i would search around and find a heavier duty pair, or upgrade to bushwachers or xenons! remember something broken is the best justification for a mod

 

go to home depot look for a molly type fastener or something like that.

 

x2....ive even reattached multiple times on the same run.

youll get used to it after a while, and itll be easy.

 

When my Jeep was six months new, I had issues with two of the four fenders on my unlimited sahara being loose. I took it in for a warranty issue and the dealer used some larger fasteners. I would bring it in to the dealer and see what they would charge to fix it. If you get your oil chaned at the dealer regularly, sometimes that is enough to get some good pricing on emergency stuff like this.

Do, not try to do this yourself or the problem will get worse. I would either go the dealership repair route or go for some aftermarket fenders as previously suggested.

Good Luck,

Iggy

 

If you cant find the right fasteners to fix it, take it to any Body shop and they will do it. There is no need to buy new ones or take it to the dealer.
You are just not using the right hardware. If all else fails put in a blind nut and a small bolt with washers.

 

There are two ideas behind those little plastic fasteners:

#1. They're cheap.

#2. They're fragile...so the will snap/pull out/whatever before you actually do damage to your sheet metal

Fasteners are cheap. Repairing metallic body damage is not

 

Ripped one of mine off last winter and the fasteners seem to be fine when I pounded the fender back on. Took a little force but she is still hagin on

 

depending on your state laws trimming is a good thing!!

and as stated before the clips are a great idea