Poly fender or not to poly fender

Has anybody ran the fleetline brand poly fenders? Minimizer makes a nice product but I'm not gonna pay $835 for a set of black fenders. I can buy fleetline brand full radius black fenders for $80 each ($320 to do 2 axles) plus another $400 for stainless triangle mount brackets from Vanderhaags. Also, fleetline offers them in many colors but not a paintable version, if a guy knew what he's doing could they be painted to match the truck?

 

I know a couple of guys that got them put on.
They dont "appear" to be as thick as the Fleet Engineers ones, but looks can be deceiving too.

Martin

 

Thanks Martin. I haven't bought any yet, gonna look at 'em in person first because just like anything else you get what you pay for.

 

My gray/silver fleet engineers fenders showed up this week. They seem like a pretty decent fender for the money, bought 5 fenders & 5 sets of stainless steel shape/triangle mounts for $750 shipped. Hope to have them mounted in the next couple weeks.

 

iv actually had better luck with poly fenders than stainless. i do mostly belly dump and side dump. stainless half fenders are pretty heavy to start with then put another 50 lbs of mud on them and drive down a rough road and they break the mounts. also if the loader drops any rocks on your fenders they bounce off the poly with less damage. if you do break a mount stainless steel fenders damage your tires, if you break a mount with poly it damages the fenders.

iv been trying some poly full fenders and they seem to hold up better than half fenders and do a better job. i have found the light duty FE full fenders to do better than the heavy duty one. for one they are less ridged so they absorb a hit better. and for another they are smooth on the inside vrs ribbed so they hold less mud and you can knock the mud out of the fenders better.

 

Installed the fleet engineers fenders over the memorial day weekend, they've been holding up pretty good so far.

 

Very nice.

 

Poly are good. Minimized lifetime warranty isn't what you think. If it's install error which most likely always will be or hooking them with a trailer they don't cover that. Trust me. They do give a bit of a discount on replacement though. Nice hung is if you drop rocks or whatever on them they won't dint like stainless.

 

Hey, I know this is an old thread but I found it useful when I was figuring out fenders for my equipment so I thought I'd throw in my $.02. I ordered some fleet-products poly fenders from fleetpride. The difference for me was price. The fenders where similar to minimizer but the mount hardware was a whole lot cheaper. I figured I'd have to fab up some of it myself no matter what so why spend extra on some fancy brackets when I'll probably be ad-libbing anyway.

I found the fleet products to be good products. I probably spent 4 hours all told on the single axle tractor including welding up my own brackets, paint, etc. So not too bad. See the pictures.

 

T5FenderInstall_016 by mugurpe posted May 6, 2017 at 8:20 PM

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