Advice to avoid stone chips on rear doors
03-19-2003, 04:49 AM
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Advice to avoid stone chips on rear doors
To those lucky few with a Cayenne:
Check the trailing edge of the rear doors (it makes up the front curve of the rear wheel arch) and you'll notice that your paint work is directly exposed to the tyre. In other words, stones, sand, grit, salt whatever will be "blast" the rear edge of your door.
I suggest you find the nearest 3M DynaShield installer to have them fit that rear edge with some of that thin, hardy but almost invisible clear plastic to protect the paint from the rear wheels.
I'd also put it across the nose, the door mirrors and the leading edges of the lower sections of all four doors.
Regardless of your decision to protect the rest of the car, check out those rear doors and go and look at any Range Rover since about 1996 ... Range Rover has a rubber seal protecting the door paint from the tyre -- not as cosmetically pretty as the exposed paint, but infinitely more practical and durable.
Check the trailing edge of the rear doors (it makes up the front curve of the rear wheel arch) and you'll notice that your paint work is directly exposed to the tyre. In other words, stones, sand, grit, salt whatever will be "blast" the rear edge of your door.
I suggest you find the nearest 3M DynaShield installer to have them fit that rear edge with some of that thin, hardy but almost invisible clear plastic to protect the paint from the rear wheels.
I'd also put it across the nose, the door mirrors and the leading edges of the lower sections of all four doors.
Regardless of your decision to protect the rest of the car, check out those rear doors and go and look at any Range Rover since about 1996 ... Range Rover has a rubber seal protecting the door paint from the tyre -- not as cosmetically pretty as the exposed paint, but infinitely more practical and durable.
03-19-2003, 03:29 PM
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I bet you could work with this guy, Harvey Peck. He make 944 gaurds for OE replacement and sells them in the classifieds section. You may have to work back and forth to get the templates correct, but it could be an idea.
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03-21-2003, 12:21 AM
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The wheel-arch mouldings are a good idea. They can be painted to colour match. Insanely expensive, even for Porsche:
MUD FLAPS
-955 044 800 09 (SET OF4) 165.89 NPA
-955 044 800 13 (SET OF 2) 116.12 NPA
#vehicles with running boards or
rocker guards can only use rear flaps
WHEEL OPENING MOULDINGS
-955 044 800 10 w/mudflaps 613.75 NPA
-955 044 800 11 w/o mudflaps 613.75 NPA
#can be painted to match color of vehicle
There's also a product the local dealer uses called "clear armor" but I don't know much about it.
MUD FLAPS
-955 044 800 09 (SET OF4) 165.89 NPA
-955 044 800 13 (SET OF 2) 116.12 NPA
#vehicles with running boards or
rocker guards can only use rear flaps
WHEEL OPENING MOULDINGS
-955 044 800 10 w/mudflaps 613.75 NPA
-955 044 800 11 w/o mudflaps 613.75 NPA
#can be painted to match color of vehicle
There's also a product the local dealer uses called "clear armor" but I don't know much about it.
09-26-2010, 08:37 PM
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I just did touch up painting on my door edge. I also have lots of pitting in the plastic behind the wheel also so I'm getting the mud guards.
Does anyone know where we can see a photo of the wheel arch extensions and how (if) they cover the door edge? The photos I can find only show the front wheel area.
Does anyone know where we can see a photo of the wheel arch extensions and how (if) they cover the door edge? The photos I can find only show the front wheel area.
