Fitting Flexi Flares to a 5 door d1!!

**loanrangie** · 15th September 2013, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Presto

The flare should not sit on the panel. The lower edge of the flare should fit over the panel, as it also prevents the panel cutting into the tyre should they touch.

Have a look at my images of the arch install:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/gclro-memb...-d1-v8i-3.html

The front flare lower screw is very close to the bottom of the panel, but you'll see in my thread that I had a couple of goes taking more out of the panel at the back edge to provide more clearance for the tyre. I had to force the flare back a bit, but in doing that it does lift that back edge a touch.

Hope this helps!

Thanks mate, just been checking out your pics and i assumed it sat over the cut as it then fits snug to the guard that way, was about to put the 2 top screws in but thought i better have a quick look on here before i **** it up.

**loanrangie** · 22nd September 2013, 07:47 AM

Finished cutting and flares are mounted for a trial fit before trimming the bumper strip adding the piping for the flare, i probably took a bit longer as i can see that it would be easy to cut too much off.
Just need to paint the cut steel of the rear doors and fill the gap with a length of square rubber, if flexi had made the lip part of the flare about 20mm longer it would have covered the cut and you could then trim it back if required.
Doesnt look too bad with the 245/70's but the 265/75's should fill the guards a bit better.

**loanrangie** · 22nd September 2013, 04:49 PM

Almost done, just need to finish of the doors. I went to Clark Rubber and got some 19mm sq section to fill the gap in the door and some Ford pinch weld to help with crap ingress. Still need to paint the steel and find some matching screw caps as the sealed packet was short 2 caps and 2 screws.

**loanrangie** · 28th September 2013, 05:21 PM

All done

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