I've been on the fence between 33's and 35's. Finally made up my mind. 35's it is. I won't have the money for a lift for at least a couple months and I like the flat fender look so I gonna chop mine. I've viewed all the threads and photos on the subject but didn't see this question: Those of you that have done it, do you regret it? Has it screwed up something that you had to go buy to replace. How do the chopped fenders hold up. Are they flimsy and floppy. How bout in the wind and at highway speeds. How do they hold up under trail conditions? Lastly, is there anyone out there that has swapped to xenon's or tube fenders that wants to get rid of your old ones chopped or stock.

 

No regrets at all! I left the skeleton (cut down of course) under the front fenders and it is just as solid as before... Even more solid actually with less plastic away from the mounts. The rears dont have enough plastic (4" or so) to get flimsy as they are close to the mounts. To me, it looks 10x better. Not to mention, the edges of all my fenders were pretty scratched up... which looked even worse. Again, I have ZERO regrets...

 

choppin the fenders was prolly the best thing ive done to mine so far, 0 regrets, grab a saw and some beverages, measure, and start cutting.

 

x2 on what he said

 

AK Jeeper where you located? I'm going to do this as soon as the weather gets a little better and maybe with two of us using our brains we won't dork them up to bad

 

PM sent. Anyone got close up pics of the inner wells after the chop.

 

WOL did his and he has the best angles on the fender chop I have seen. I will see if I can find the thread.

Thread:
https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...ght=fender+cut

This is the write up on how to:

http://project-jk.com/jeep-jk-write-...ry-fender-chop

 

I don't think eMETAL is on right now but here's some pics he posted up

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...+fender&page=3

Here's WOLs write-up

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...chopped+fender

 

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/atta...1&d=1235514280


someone will have to help me make this click free

 

When I do it, I'm gonna make a left and right template out of mylar. This way, I'll get exactly the same on both sides.