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Old 01-29-2009, 11:39 PM   #1
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Question fender liners-- do they matter?

i recently installed coilovers on my car and my drop caused my tire to rub against my fender liner so i decided to take it off. i was wondering if this will affect my car negatively in any way (mainly in the rain) cause i see some wires and stuff along the fender. thanks
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Aerodynamics is a little cleaner with them on, otherwise it's fine as long as you move the harness out of the wheel well(either in the fender or the engine bay).
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Aerodynamics is a little cleaner with them on, otherwise it's fine as long as you move the harness out of the wheel well(either in the fender or the engine bay).
so if I were to get overfenders, Aerodynamically speaking would it be worth the effort to try and retain the factory wheel wells?

What about if they were the vented kind like origin
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gut the liners. You dont need them at all. Just be sure to tuck your harness to avoid rubbing through the wires.
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so if I were to get overfenders, Aerodynamically speaking would it be worth the effort to try and retain the factory wheel wells?

What about if they were the vented kind like origin
You can make stuff that's "better" than the factory wheel well liners. Mainly make a splitter that goes back to the front wheels and kicks the flow out in front of the front wheels.

It'd be a really ghetto job trying to make stock liners work with overfenders, plus you want to utilize the vent in the overfenders to evacuate the high pressure area in the back of the wells.
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wait the harness is that really thick black hose looking thing right ?
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you should never be high enough to be able to retain them.
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wait the harness is that really thick black hose looking thing right ?
that's it.
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thing that bugs me about no fender liners is I end up with a little rock and dirt collection between my fender and door.. gota love that
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so just tuck the harness... into the fender?
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liner?

whats that?
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Old 01-30-2009, 12:53 AM   #12
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thing that bugs me about no fender liners is I end up with a little rock and dirt collection between my fender and door.. gota love that
damnn do those rocks and stuff rattle when you drive ?!

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liner?

whats that?
its the plastic thing thats on your fender protecting your wires and stuff from water, dirt, tire rub, and stuff like that.
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Dump it Ive been with out for a year. Downside yep them damn rocks.
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Old 01-30-2009, 01:38 AM   #14
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on the passanger side, when you remove your fender liner, you expose your windshield washer fluid resovoir. now some ppl just say fuck it and don't give a shit, but if you are slammed...you know that ANYTHING lying on the road that you may run over may be picked up from the underbody of your car.

I cut up the fender liner from the passanger side and basically made a small shield to protect the bottom of the res as well as the plugs in the back. (you dont wanna pull those plugs out...) I wish i took pics...

Works fine, because I pushed the fender liner deeeeeeeeeeeeep into the wheel well (after pounding in the wheel well in with a sledgehammer), so it would hit my inner wheel well before it would touch my fender liner.
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you should never be high enough to be able to retain them.
damn strait!
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you should never be high enough to be able to retain them.
Haha, yes.

Mine rubbed the worst when I had just lowering springs (Sportlines + body roll), and they rubbed through and killed my wiring.
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hmmm i was thinking about that too.. cutting my fenderliner and like jamming it into spots where i would like it to be covered... and about the rocks collecting between the fender and the door... do they rattle? id sure as hell be annoyed by that..
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thing that bugs me about no fender liners is I end up with a little rock and dirt collection between my fender and door.. gota love that
I wondered how all that crap was getting there!!
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Took them off over 2 years ago. The dirt and rocks wasn't as much of an issue with me because I constantly wash my car anyways. The thing that bugged me was the way it made the car look. The liners do give your car a much more cleaner look. As for the harness, I just placed some plastic pieces under the harness. Then taped a bunch of electrical tape over it. It was suppose to be temporary, but it's been holding up for 2 years, so I never bothered to reroute it.
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Good info here!!!!
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just ditch em,tuck harness. the worst thing that wil happen is ull get dirt and rocks that collect at the bottom of the fender.
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I absolutely hate how the car looks without them, just my 2cents. I cut mine so that the lower portions remain, covering the fender opening and filling the section from the bumper back. You can then make a small bracket to hold them securely.
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I did the same thing too. Basically just cut the liner in half and install the back half of it. I used to live in a place where there was a lot of sand and grainy rocks so it sucks without some kind of liner.
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I keep them, but I'm not lowered as far as many folks, and my car is mostly street-driven. I figure it keeps rocks and dirt out from places you don't want it, and helps to keep things dry that should be kept dry.
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Yeah the only downside is the rocks getting in the door/fender area. Sorta funny when you wash the car just a pile of rocks and dirt come out from them. But no bad effects.
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it does make the car look like shits missing without them ill have to try to pick up another pair to trim and fit
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How can you guys even tell that they're not in?

Get bigger wheels.
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took them both out, one was already ground up anyway. after that i put on underbody coating on everything in the wheel wells, because i didn't want to have little rocks chipping my paint away in there. plus, the black coating makes it look more "stockish".
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on the passanger side, when you remove your fender liner, you expose your windshield washer fluid resovoir..

windshield washers? whats that?

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takem out.

i'ma look into making something to cover the cave where the rocks go.
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