Replacement STEEL Fenders with flares?, ...or a pair in good shape Options

[tomeric914]

I know there are flared fiberglass front fender replacements. Just wondering if anyone knows if there are replacement front fenders with flares as an integral part of the stamping?

...or alternatively, does anyone have a pair of steel flared front fenders that have been removed?

[Katmanken]

It's gonna be really $$pendy for the dies to form the parts and for the parts in a limited volume. First, to form sheet metal, it takes a big assed press. The bigger the part, the bigger the press

Second, that front fender is a very complex shape which means that it will take a forming die with a lot of $$pendy slides or a series of progressive forming dies to form the different features. Slides in any tools are costly as slides in forming dies must be very strong and very costly. Slides move die parts out of the way to let you remove the part from the tool. If you don't use slides, you need a lot of progressive dies which are are more expense too..

Then there is the metal stretch issue....

The material in the flare area of the fender must be stretched out a lot more than a regular fender which means the material of the flare will be a lot thinner where it bulges out... Or, it might tear in the overstretched areas and the tooling will never work right. A good mold designer could make an educated guess.

The current process is cost effective from a tooling standpoint, just more work in welding the flare. Removing a fender and rewelding a new one in place is a real royal pain and doing it right may be more difficult than welding on a flare....