Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

My Mod/Cub/Kenskill style fiberglass fenders are now painted. In thinking about trying to protect my investment, I am considering having 3m paint protection film put on the fenders.

Before I spend the money, I was wondering where the majority of the rock "dings" come from. Are they from rocks kicked up by the tow vehicle tires, the teardrop tires, or both?

Thank you for your responses.

aggie79 wrote:My Mod/Cub/Kenskill style fiberglass fenders are now painted. In thinking about trying to protect my investment, I am considering having 3m paint protection film put on the fenders.

Before I spend the money, I was wondering where the majority of the rock "dings" come from. Are they from rocks kicked up by the tow vehicle tires, the teardrop tires, or both?

Thank you for your responses.

I have that film on my car. I love it, but it wasn't cheap. However, the front of my six-year-old car looks like new. My last car had it, too, and after the wreck that did $12,000 in damage, the hood was a crumpled waste, but the film was not punctured.

If you can buy the film, and do it yourself, you can save a lot of money. And, you don't have to do the entire fenders. You can just do the forward facing surfaces.

I would also put some rubberized undercoating on the underside of the fenders to soften the blows from rocks kicked up from your trailer wheels. You can easily and cheaply do that yourself.

CD

When you mentioned tow vehicle tires it reminded me of advice given on my first outing..............a guy came over to look at the td and told me to invest in good mud flaps for my truck.

Barb

b.bodemer wrote:When you mentioned tow vehicle tires it reminded me of advice given on my first outing..............a guy came over to look at the td and told me to invest in good mud flaps for my truck.

Barb

You can also make a set up for mud flaps that attaches to the hitch, and be removed so you don't always have those huge mud flaps back there.

EDIT

Just thinking, like CD said about his wrecked car, if a big rock hits it hard enough to crack the fiberglass, no film if going to protect it.

dh wrote:Just thinking, like CD said about his wrecked car, if a big rock hits it hard enough to crack the fiberglass, no film if going to protect it.

I was hit by a Ford Expedition, not a rock.

CD

I'm considering installing it myself, although I've never done anything like it except for perhaps installing some window film.

What I'm not sure about is how well it will stretch/conform to some pretty tight compound curves at the front and rear of the fenders.

caseydog wrote:
I was hit by a Ford Expedition, not a rock.

CD

I've been sitting on this one for a while. I like the more official looking guy in a green suit with that little hammer.