Does anyone have any advice about getting OEM Style wheel moldings?

I don't want to drill all the holes necessary to mount the OEM moldings.

So, basically, I want the next best option. OEM Style flares that tape to the fender and then screw to the bottom part of the fender (don't want bushwackers, or anything gigantic, just ones that look like the ones that come with the lariat).

If you have a set of after market flares, what do you think? What is your suggestion.

Thanks

 

I noticed some OEM style flares on Ebay yesterday. They look pretty comparable to stock and apply with 3M adhesive tape. Fairly reasonably priced too!

 

I've seen a few of those too, but i don't know the quality. Anyone have those? How long have they lasted?

I've also seen EGR 'factory style' flares. Are those any good?

 

If you can find a set of OEM take off flares, just pop out the clips and use double sided tape in their place. Don't worry if they are textured FX4 flares or smooth lariat's, they both mount the same. The FX4 style can be smoothed and painted, take a look at "yellow stx" he sanded my old FX4 flares and painted them, I gave him my old in trade for painting my lariat flares.

My new flares



Pat's truck (yellow stx) with my old fx4 flares sanded and painted



BTW Pat did the paint work on both sets and my mirror caps, he a painter by trade in a chebby dealer.

 

I bought the ones on e bay 5 years ago and generally think they are what you pay for. Still have them on the truck but looking to replace them. After a while they warp and the 3M tape no longer sticks. I painted them myself and they looked good for a cpl years but now I'm ready to rip them off. Maybe the UV rays at high altitude does something to them I don't know. Think I will go with the bushwacker if I decide to replace.

 

That's what I was afraid of. I plan on keeping this truck until it dies and I would like it to continue to look as nice as possible until then.

Whether or not I get another vehicle is a different story. I really want to get a new F150, but I'm going to hold off til early 2012. By then, most of the kinks with the new engines and stuff should be worked out, and I will have been able to save up damn near close to the cost of an XLT, so I don't have to finance.

If I get a new one, I'll be keeping this one too.

 

how do you get the stock OEM flares off for resale ? do you just cut the screws and rip the tape ?? I am going with the Bushwackers.