My new to me FL2 has the "protector" strips missing.
I thought about just painting round the wheelarch lips with some stonechip paint
instead of fitting new ones.
Will be taking Landy off road now & then, so is this likely to be an issue?
Read through several wheelarch threads but not seen this Q discussed.

Thanks guys
Iain

Metal edge protection from e-bay seems to do the job..can’t find the link but the company was called the metal house

I think a lot take them off but I bought new ones. Took the plastics out of the wheel arches & painted behind the plastics with Waxoyl & also took it on to the lips of the wheel arches. There was no rust at all & when the Waxoyl dried I fitted new rubber strips to help with stopping stones chipping the paint.

Common fault, renewed all on both the freelanders I've had, poor design they're not long enough or have enough metal to grip to. I think they are worth replacement as will protect from stone chipping.

Waste of time and money. Don't really do anything - except hold moisture against the wheel arch lip causing corrosion, then they corrode from the inside anyway until they deform enough to fall off. My Freelander didn't have them when I bought it . I'd have removed them anyway if it had. Useless cosmetic pointless waste of money.
As for protecting from stonechipping - they'll cause more corrosion once they start to go than stonechipping will.

OLOSTEVE wrote:

Common fault, renewed all on both the freelanders I've had, poor design they're not long enough or have enough metal to grip to. I think they are worth replacement as will protect from stone chipping.

See this thread
http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic32437.html No Longer the owner of a 2013MY Fuji White GS

"Fiat Lux" a philosophy not a car

I would think if your going to go blasting across miles of desert road the paint on the extreme edge of the arch edge may well get eroded after a few hundred miles, but not many of us meet the odd sand storm.

For the occasional stone chip I prefer to rely upon anti chip paint. Regards

David

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Thanks for the replies guys.
I'll have a good look at the arches.
Possibly best solution would be to paint them with stonechip & apply some wax to inside of lip.

Boxbrownie wrote:

I would think if your going to go blasting across miles of desert road the paint on the extreme edge of the arch edge may well get eroded after a few hundred miles, but not many of us meet the odd sand storm.

For the occasional stone chip I prefer to rely upon anti chip paint.

https://www.dinitroldirect.com/stone-chip-paint/

Rely on Dinitrol  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

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Thank you, Boxbrownie, I thought you would come up with an answer.

The 449 will be perfect for Pam and her hearing problems.