new fender flares for the xj

squareaffair

New member
It was time to put new fender flares on the jeep.
At the start of September, the gf and I took a trip down to Washington and did two days worth of the most northern part of the Washington Backcountry Discovery Route http://www.backcountrydiscoveryroutes.com/WABDR
Its a great, pretty mild, very scenic, and totally worth checking out. heres a picture from that trip:

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I ended up loosing a flare (back tires made contact), this is not that uncommon with the 97+ cherokees as I am sure many of you know. I also managed to spray wet cow **** through an open passenger window onto my girlfriend because the stock flares no longer covered my 31x10.5 tires on the 4" backspaced 15x8 rims. This was a good opportunity to upgrade.
I looked at a bunch of options, but talked with napier precision products about their new flat flares who ended up giving me a discount as they were still testing the new product out and were wanting feedback.
http://www.napierprecisionproducts.com/main.sc
they were really nice to deal with, and after getting my hands on their product I think i would have purchased them with or without the discount they gave me - they are really nice, nicer than the bushwacker products IMO.
heres the result after a weekend of cutting and folding and more cutting:

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I'm looking forward to taking advantage of the new added clearance, and I think the flares look great, a little more subtle than the other products on the market and retain a somewhat stock look. The one aesthetic downfall was it has emphasized the small reared sag I have going on, will have to fix that soon.
 

amo292

Adventurer
Thats a great looking rig! I applaud you keeping it looking stock but very purpose built. Those flares look 10x better than all the bushwhacker systems I have seen.
 

bainbridge-xj

New member
Nice XJ. I have a set of the Napier V2 flares sitting in the garage waiting to go on my 98 XJ. That said, I like the looks of the flat flares. By the way, I added a set of the Napier hood vents. We were on the WABDR in August and I think they helped quite a bit to keep the engine temps down.
 

squareaffair

New member
The flares will totally work for any year xj cherokee - there are a few different parts to the installation but they are absolutely meant to work for all years
 

squareaffair

New member
Thats what I was going to do if I bought an XJ. Just go with flares and 31's.

for the record, theres also about 3" of lift - you could probably get away with it though, and i could probably go to 33s without rubbing now, but id need to re-gear at that point i think
 

TMC-113

Observer
What wheels do you have on it in the first picture?

Are they the American Racing smooth ones?



The flares look great btw! Awesome rig!
 

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