Fiberglass Bedsides, Fenders, Hoods & Conversion Kits

A - Offroad fiberglass fenders allow for more travel of your tires and suspension so you won't have to lift your truck as high. The hoods, fenders and bedsides shed quite a bit of weight over the stock sheet metal parts and they don't dent or rust.

The way fiberglass fenders are designed, impact is spread over the entire surface area of the fender to reduce the chance of damage. With sheet metal fenders, the same impact would more likely leave a permanent dent. Fiberglass fenders are not shock proof, they can tear if you slam yourself into a boulder or flip. Fiberglass is pound for pound, stronger than steel for it's weight to strength ratio. Fiberglass components weighs 75% less than sheet metal.

A - When looking at fiberglass fenders you'll see terms such as "6-inch flare". This is how far the fender sticks out from the normal (stock) width, not any indication as to how big the wheel opening is. The photo below is an example of a 8-inch flare.

Choose your flare's wisely. If you're using this on a trail rig or something that's going to be around trees or rocks/embankments, you may not want a very wide flare sticking out to be rubbing against stuff.

Unless you're desert racing or looking for wider fenders to cover wider tires or compensate for wider axle widths from axle swaps, you'll probably be more concerned with how much larger the wheel opening is than how wide the flare is.

A - Fiberglass fenders come "holeless". You have to aligned them into their approximate location, marked the holes, and drilled them to accept the factory bolts.

FiberwerX:

We currently use Fiberwerx front fenders on TRS-2, our 1996 Ranger.

Fiberwerx offers hoods, fenders, bedsides and complete conversion kits to convert your older style Ranger to a newer style.

They also have one piece front clips to get the look of the newer Ranger and even an F-150 clip for your Ranger.

We haven't listed everything they carry and items are subject to change.

This is just to give you an idea of what they offer.

This Ranger is actually a 1983-1987 style Ranger with a 1998-2002 conversion kit on it. It also has their bedside conversion.

This Explorer features the X-Treme F-150 conversion clip, 4dr rear panel flare system, custom Explorer fiberglass rear bumper, billet grill, and F-150 Halogen projector lamps.

Hannemann Fiberglass:

Offers one piece front clips as well as clips to convert to a newer style Ranger.

They also offer fiberglass fenders, bedsides, grills and hoods. Flares listed range from 2-5 inches.

They also offer fenders for Explorers.

We haven't listed everything they carry and items are subject to change.

This is just to give you an idea of what they offer.

Perry's Fab & Fiber:

Perry's Fab & Fiber offers fiberglass bedsides, fenders, hoods, and conversion kits.

They offer kits to convert 83-92 style Rangers to the 93-97 style and 83-92 to 2007 style. They also offer kits to convert the 93-97 style Rangers to the 2003 and newest 2007 styles.

Perry's also offers kits to update the Ford Explorer.

Perry's is the only company we are aware of that offers fiberglass quarter panels for the Ford Bronco II.

We haven't listed everything they carry and items are subject to change.

This is just to give you an idea of what they offer.

1993-2000 Conversion to 2003 Ford Ranger

Fiberglass Bedside

Bronco II Kit

83-92 Ranger Conversion to 2007 Ranger

Glassworks:

Glassworks carries 1998-2008 Ranger fiberglass hoods, 1983-2008 flared fiberglass bedsides and fenders, and a pretty wild one-piece clip that updates the 93-97 style to '2005 to 2010'.

We haven't listed everything they carry and items are subject to change.

This is just to give you an idea of what they offer.

U.S. Body Source:

U.S. Body Source carries a variety of fiberglass hoods for your Ranger. They also offer a 1940 Ford truck kit that fits on a Ranger frame.

Autofab:

Autofab offers some fiberglass hoods, fenders and bedsides.

We haven't listed everything they carry and items are subject to change.

This is just to give you an idea of what they offer.