Gothamist, what happened to your last mod post?

[xterra2k]

Vikram,
I thought that it was a pretty good idea for you.
I just thought that the door molding would hold a lot of dirt due to the rough surface.
Nice accent on the rocker panel

[gothamist]

I was trying to get a better picture of it uploaded but couldn't so I scrapped the post. I'll go ahead and put up the one I do have.



Herculined my rocker panels and the plastic trim in between the front and rear bumpers (except the body-side moldings.) The Herculiner went on pretty easily, and I think it looks pretty cool, too. Kind of odd to see the red paint contrast w/ black instead of grey, but it matches my ARB a lot better now.

The rocker panels only took light sanding to get the clearcoat and some of the undercoat off (per Herculiner's instructions), I went with rougher grit sandpaper on the plastic parts to make it stick but it seems to be holding on there fine.

[edit]Okay, I was able to upload another two pics...(@Home seems to be having issues in my area right now.) Thanks Will for use of your digital![/edit]

[Schludwiller]

Hmmm...I was thinking something along the same lines, except using 3M clear tape across the rocker panels.

[gothamist]

Schlud--that could work, too. My rockers were/are pretty mangled up (wheeled the truck way too hard before getting my sliders, oh well...) so something like tape wouldn't have really stuck to them. I like the Herculiner because it fills in the dents and gouges pretty well...

[rhombus]

Looks great...
Not sure how tape would work (am I missing something?)

It's not often that you see a truck with a bigger spare tire

How does the truck feel with the AT's?

Must be a lot quieter.

[gothamist]

Mobycat was joking over the weekend that I kept the Swamper up there so that once I got stuck with my AT's, I could swap it on to the wheel w/ the least traction and drive right out of there.

The truck feels a lot less "truck-like" to me, and I am driving a bit faster these days because I can't rely on the pitch of my tires to tell me how fast I'm going...

Truck also has a LOT more highway power, and it stops much better.

I can't fishtail around wet corners for fun (abandoned roads, parking lots, yadda yadda yadda) the way you can w/ Swampers...the AT's just have a lot more bite on wet pavement. All that siping I guess.

Having said all that...
I can't wait to put my Swampers back on!!!

(I'm driving nearly 150 miles a day for work right now, so it just doesn't make sense to leave the Swampers on since my next wheeling trip isn't til the end of the month.)