Bushwacker
#1
07-14-2010, 02:15 PM
Bushwacker
Bushwacker has thoroughly pissed me off and as I promised them i will not recommend their fender flares.
I had Bushwacker pocket style fender flares installed on my truck 3/13/09. The flares cost $530 with tax plus another $400 for them to be painted and installed. So it totaled about $930. I drove the truck for 5 months before I put it in storage for 9 months. When I was installing the exhaust I noticed the flares where loose and upon closer inspection I found that the flares where cracking around the mounting points. So I contacted Bushwacker and they asked to send pictures. So i sent four pictures (attached) in which they concluded that something struck the underside of the flare and they would not cover them under warrenty.
I strongly recommend to stay away from bushwacker. I am serriously pissed right now. I hope someone from bushwacker reads this.
THIS IS JUST MY OPINION!!!!!
I had Bushwacker pocket style fender flares installed on my truck 3/13/09. The flares cost $530 with tax plus another $400 for them to be painted and installed. So it totaled about $930. I drove the truck for 5 months before I put it in storage for 9 months. When I was installing the exhaust I noticed the flares where loose and upon closer inspection I found that the flares where cracking around the mounting points. So I contacted Bushwacker and they asked to send pictures. So i sent four pictures (attached) in which they concluded that something struck the underside of the flare and they would not cover them under warrenty.
I strongly recommend to stay away from bushwacker. I am serriously pissed right now. I hope someone from bushwacker reads this.
THIS IS JUST MY OPINION!!!!!
#2
07-14-2010, 02:35 PM
Let me get this straight, your big Toyo MTs contacted the Bushwacker flares and now you're pissed that they won't warranty them? You didn't ensure you had propper tire to fender clearance and you want someone else to pay for it!?!
Hmmmm. Guess I should have pitched a fit to Ford when my 35s tore up my front air dam and then pulled the trim off of my bumper. Then I should have sent them the bill for fabricating and installing a 1.5" spacer to push the bumper forward to keep it off of my Toyos. Hell, let's sue Toyo for making tires that don't proper fit our trucks!!!(insert Sam Kinison screaming here)
If you SERIOUSLY can't tell from those first two pictures that the cause of that damage was tire to flare contact, you're fooling yourself. I wouldn't have warrantied those flares either.
Hmmmm. Guess I should have pitched a fit to Ford when my 35s tore up my front air dam and then pulled the trim off of my bumper. Then I should have sent them the bill for fabricating and installing a 1.5" spacer to push the bumper forward to keep it off of my Toyos. Hell, let's sue Toyo for making tires that don't proper fit our trucks!!!(insert Sam Kinison screaming here)
If you SERIOUSLY can't tell from those first two pictures that the cause of that damage was tire to flare contact, you're fooling yourself. I wouldn't have warrantied those flares either.
#3
07-14-2010, 02:48 PM
My tires have never contacted my flares. I have been running 35" tires the whole time. I had stock flares on for over a year with no problems. The only issue i have had from rubbing is from when some dick hit and run my truck and pushed my front bumper back hence the rub marks on the tires. At full lock i have more then enough clearance. I still have room to crank the torsion bars up if i needed.
