Door hinges chipped up ?

[npgeorgeuw]

That looks great. Did you pull the hinges to do that or just tape them off?

Those are covers, bought off eBay and plastidipped to match the door handles since they were glossy black everywhere I tried to buy them.

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[Dqban]

If you get some touch up paint and practice with an airbrush, you can get an almost flawless match. I use this method on the front lip of my previous sports cars multiple times. Works beautiful and blends almost perfect.

Depending on the depth of the chip, very light primer, very light paint and clearcoat to make up the difference in the depth. Use lots of paint thinner to minimize any transition lines. 2000 grit wet sand when you're done.
About $100 for all the supplies but you'll have a paint chip repair solution for now on.

 

[Deleted member 30519]

My Amazon hinge covers have held up nice for almost two years now.

 

[redrider]

I have drawn a concept of some chainmail type of barrier that fills the gap between the rails and fender. For those without rails, the chainmail will be longer by 2 inches. Both types attach to the OEM fender with push pins at the top and swing free at the bottom. Mud flaps, while effective, look like warts to me.

 

[JackalopeSean]

The RockSlide Engineering side steps do a great job at keeping rocks chips off the side of the Jeep and the rear fenders. Also super handy keeping mud and snow off the step

 

[Beemer533]

Those are covers, bought off eBay and plastidipped to match the door handles since they were glossy black everywhere I tried to buy them.

Ah, thanks I missed that.

 

[calipoontappa]

Get a set of these.
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/amp-xl-vs-rockslide-engineering.36123/

Zero rocks make it past them lol

 

[The White Rabbit]

The RockSlide Engineering side steps do a great job at keeping rocks chips off the side of the Jeep and the rear fenders. Also super handy keeping mud and snow off the step

Good information. I’m going to get some roof racks so this sounds good.

 

[NC_Gladiato]

What do your rear fenders look like? I noticed mine are beat up. I’m guessing this was before my Rokblokz but not sure. Hopefully the new rock trajectory isn’t causing this.

If you had the matching color fenders, they came with protective patches to prevent this. I guess they didn't give a crap about the non-painted fenders. I haven't logged a lot of highway time on my Jeep so that's helped prevent a lot as well.

 

[npgeorgeuw]

Get a set of these.
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/amp-xl-vs-rockslide-engineering.36123/

Zero rocks make it past them lol

The Jeep Performance Part/Mopar Performance Rock rails are 4 inches wide and barely less wide than that and I can say for certain that they will not prevent impacts even being that wide if your offset puts you outside the wheel well in any way, your going to take a rock impact or two to that back door top hinge. My friend has a stock rubicon JL with a wider rock rail and he's taken quite a few chips to them, I was surprised (and he was too) when I showed him how many considering his stock setup and the barrier/rock rail. Extra Wide and Long rockblokz made a huge difference 80-90% less rock hits and they compliment my truck's appearance great. At this point I could just remove the hinge covers but personally I like the way they look and they've help up perfectly after almost a year.--They match my willys color scheme, abs covered door lock barrel and cowl-mount off-road light brackets, and even the e-coated front-runner rack, rugged ridge black antenna base, stubby antenna, and so-on. They'd look terrible on pretty much anything that isn't a Willys or black in my opinion.

I feel one of the biggest contributors is also the tires. I can say that KO2s and AT3Ws both seem to hold and fling rocks extremely well, my stock KM3s threw rocks but didn't seem to grab and hold them for later and then flinging down the freeway where they really pelt those hinges. Just the right size of tread to hold the rocks enough that when you're up-to-speed, they go at those hinges at light-speed.--How many rocks get flung forward into your bumper at the front wheel well seems to indicate how much they are holding them in the treadblocks. When I'm on forest service roads in the central cascades, I've had plenty of rocks get flung forward and somehow end up on my hood.

 

[calipoontappa]

Like I said, not a single chip.

I have 15” wide tires so almost half the tire sticks out.

 

[The White Rabbit]

Like I said, not a single chip.

I have 15” wide tires so almost half the tire sticks out.

Good information! Thanks

 

[Mac]

I have the oem plastic steps, not a single chip. I have run a bunch of different AT tires also.

 

[RavensEyeOffroad]

id just touch up paint it and be done.
it just depends on how, pardon the expression, down the rabbit hole you want to go.

 

[npgeorgeuw]

Like I said, not a single chip.

I have 15” wide tires so almost half the tire sticks out.

Those aren't much wider than mine, did you see how painted my sides were with mud and that's with only 12.5 inch tires and -18 offset. Show me yours with some mud on it, it's too clean! Lol. I'd never have a single chip if I didn't tool around on muddy, snowy forest service roads all year round. (I'm ribbing you obviously, but it's awful clean and parked on pavement so...)

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