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JeepTubes fender armor/tube flares

NCCherokee

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Anderson, SC
Has anyone actually bought the jeeptubes.com fender armor with tube flares for the Cherokee? I am planning to add front fender skins and rear quarter armor, and would like to incorporate tube flares. I have been looking at THOR skins and JCR rear quarters with light boxes. Yes i know about HORE, i've seen the thread on them, and don't like their sloppy fit/finish.

The Thor skins are only 16g and $160. The Jeeptubes skins are $190 but 11g. Both are countersunk. For $30 I think I'll take the 11g which is twice as thick at 1/8" vs the 16g which is 1/16". Then I'll be looking for tube flares, which jeeptubes sells for $98, can provide up to 5" of coverage, but you still have to provide the sheet metal to finish the flare.

JT Front: $190
http://shop.jeeptubes.com/product.sc?productId=120&categoryId=8

Thor front skins: $160
http://shop.trailheadoffroad.ihostnetworks.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=XJFS

JT flares: $98
http://shop.jeeptubes.com/product.sc?productId=69&categoryId=8

In the rear I'm pretty set on the JCR quarter guards with tailight boxes. It seems everyone has them and is happy with them, I like their light setup for the 97+, and the rub rail. However I will likely not include the rub rail since I want to do tube flares, which again are $98 from jeeptubes. The JT rear armor I'm pretty sure is the same as the old THOR rear armor. More on that in a minute.

JCR rear quarter armor: $275
http://www.jcroffroad.com/product/XJArmor/XJ-RUPGRD-INT.html

JT rear armor: $296
http://shop.jeeptubes.com/product.sc?productId=147&categoryId=8

JT tubes: $98
http://shop.jeeptubes.com/product.sc?productId=72&categoryId=8
My concern with the jeeptubes rear flares is that on the DIY kit picture, they don't actually cover the front of the wheel well. On the picture of the actual tube flare kit, they very clearly bend down to cover the front of the wheel well...so which is it?


I did find on the Thor website that they sell XJ specific tube flare kits, which are identical pictures as the Jeeptubes.com sets. In fact, the picture of the flare on the fronts is the same picture/jeep as the one used for the front fender flares on the Jeeptubes site. I think I recall that Jeeptubes acquired the thor products, but both websites still list them. This begs the question of whether the jeeptubes front skins are actually 11g or not.

I have contacted jeeptubes, waiting to hear back, its sunday so I can't call. But really what I'm more interested in is the fit and finish of everything but the JCR boxes (ive seen those plenty). Does anyone have any of the jeeptubes products or the Thor front skins?

Now, for one more wrench/question in the mix. I did find some tube flares from genright offroad meant for a TJ that are bolt on, but can be welded. Given that I had stock TJ flares on for a few years, I'm thinking it might be possible to add the GR flares to the JCR guards, which is pure speculation. Might even have to run them backwards depending on how they shape up with the wheel well. However the damn things are $300 which is a little ridiculous, but they are already finished. Anyone tried this?

Genright Flares: $300
http://www.genright.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TFR1000#.UjXDUdLksXc


Thoughts?
 
Seen hore's in person. Looked really clean... IMO

Maybe they've refined the product recently? Every picture I've seen they don't line up well with the fender lines and the countersinking...doesn't work. See this thread.
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1095317
Not trying to bad mouth, just wasn't really interested in the product, though I am Impressed with the strength of the fender, but seems like you could replicate that brace.
 
Here's the Jeep tubes fender skins installed, that you asked for in the other thread. I also ordered the tubes separate however couldn't use them due to the cut I made on the front.
Having custom tubes bent for it soon.
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If I took the time I could have massaged the corners to fit with the curvature of the fender better than I did, but, it was close enough for me.
 
Here's the Jeep tubes fender skins installed, that you asked for in the other thread. I also ordered the tubes separate however couldn't use them due to the cut I made on the front.
Having custom tubes bent for it soon.
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If I took the time I could have massaged the corners to fit with the curvature of the fender better than I did, but, it was close enough for me.

Now that looks pretty good, nice and tight. I assume if you hadn't cut the front like that the tubes would have worked just fine?
 
Yep. I tried to trim one to fit and it just did'nt look right so I'm going to have them bent up at a local shop.
 
My concern with the jeeptubes rear flares is that on the DIY kit picture, they don't actually cover the front of the wheel well. On the picture of the actual tube flare kit, they very clearly bend down to cover the front of the wheel well...so which is it?

Have you heard anything back from Jeeptubes about this?
 
Have you heard anything back from Jeeptubes about this?

I got an email telling me they were actually in the middle of moving to a new shop and don't have Internet yet. Also Tim is out of town in Cali for a show. When he returns he promised some pictures.
 
So, I had a local shop (crawlertech4x4) bend the tubes for me and I welded them on and plated the tubes and ended up with (I think) some nice fenders.

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