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I just did an area about 3" high and around the entire area.
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Thanks boomer, I'm not sure yet if I should get it professionally done or do it myself. it does not look like Nissan will cover it, I've went to one of the managers of Nissan Canada and the dealer and its a dead end. Any other areas I can call to attack this from a different angle?
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I have no sense of Nissan'osition on this. But if I were going to drive on a lot of gravel, I'd do what I did PLUS I would add lower extensions to the front mud flaps that were installed when I bought the truck new. You can trace a line from the bottom of the tire to the bottom of this flap and extend it back along the track and see why stones are hittin on the front of the area of the lower rear fenders/bed. I've thought of getting some aluminum sheet, cutting and bending it to match the bottom of the front mud flap and bolting it on to extend the flap down about three inches.
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I recently did something similar. I bolted a heavy rubber flap to the existing mud flaps. the snow ripped them right off. So i need to find another set of cheap front flaps.
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Does anyone have pics of the rinex job. Looking to do somethin similar
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I added extensions onto the rear mud flaps as the rear bumper was
getting chipped. This worked nicely. For the lower leading edge of the
box and the leading edge of the fenders I added 5 inch wide side steps.
The mounting brackets on these had some significant spaces that still
allowed stones to fly up and chip the paint so I lined them with 2 inch
angle iron. The angle iron is able to extend beyond the mounting
brackets without bouncing around. I drive on gravel roads every day and
have had almost no stone chips since I did this. The side steps look good
too. The only chips I have had are the occasional one along the inside of
the rear wheel well. These have been relatively easy to touch up.
As for compensation, well, my Ranger had this problem until I protected
it. The frontier design is really bad for this though. My dad's 4x2
Tacoma drives on gravel a lot and does not have these problems. So
Nissan should pay for repair and protection but they won't because trucks
today seem to be designed to be driven on pavement for 2-3 years and
then traded in (in my limited experience anyway).
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