S13 Fender Liner How To

[Broadfield]

This is for those that are slammed and want to maintain some resemblance of a fender liner. I have received a bunch of PM's and emails asking how I kept the OEM liner while being fairly low and running fairly wide tires. I know a lot might not care, but I think it looks hideous being able to see intercooler piping and tucked wiring through the wheel well opening. I also like keeping debris out of the front of the door jam area. This will work on OEM or wide fiberglass fenders.


Basically I cut the front part of the liner off and a section of the rear, and used those two "chunks" to accomplish this.

The rear is the easiest. Just a small piece to keep debris from getting tossed back into the door jam area. It worked out nice since you have to hammer the lip of the inner wheel housing over to make room when running wider tires and/or being dumped. So the hammered over lip actually holds the rear liner section in place.

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The front takes a little more precision, but still pretty easy. Here is a before shot. This is what it looks like with no liner... garbage in my opinion.

http://images54.fotki.com/v543/photos/4/47612/3915226/IMG_8367-vi.jpg


A picture of an unmodified liner:

http://images18.fotki.com/v60/photos/4/47612/3915226/IMG_8370-vi.jpg

I first cut the liner in half at the peak of the arch to get it down to a workable size:

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I then cut along the bump in the liner. It's hard to see in the pic, but very obvious when you have it in front of you. It will make more sense when you look at the finished results. Simply cut a little then see how it fits. Just keep cutting more until it fits the way you want it. I used big shears, cuts like butter.

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This is a picture of the chunk that I cut out. The liner will basically follow the bottom metal of the tub. That way it can be shifted forward about an inch or two and will not be rubbed by the tires. You may also have to trim some off the front where it goes into the bumper since you are shifting it forward:

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This is what it will look like before final mounting:

http://images114.fotki.com/v271/photos/4/47612/3915226/IMG_8377-vi.jpg

You will want to make sure to keep these inner two tabs in place:

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You will get it set up in there and drill two new holes into the side of the frame. The old holes will not line up since you are shifting the liner forward:

http://images9.fotki.com/v1618/photos/4/47612/3915226/IMG_8390-vi.jpg

The other part that is going to hold this in place is a strip that fits into the outer edge of the fender. I drilled two holes in it so I could slip a zip tie in there and strap it to my fender harness. I am running fiberglass wide fenders, so if you are running stock fenders, you may mount it slightly different. However, you will not be able to mount it to the actual fender since the whole point of this is to move it forward so the tire doesn't rub it. Once you have it in there, snug the zip tie tight and it's going nowhere!

http://images116.fotki.com/v699/photos/4/47612/3915226/IMG_8383-vi.jpg

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Finished product.. damn near OEM looking! I am running 245's up front and am fairly low... no rubbing whatsoever.

http://images9.fotki.com/v448/photos/4/47612/3915226/IMG_8394-vi.jpg

[Edwin562]

nice job.. looks pretty easy

[Broadfield]

nice job.. looks pretty easy

Yeah, it's actually pretty straight forward. It's just some people don't have the vision or patience to figure something out. So I figured I would take care of that portion of the project and all they have to do is the actual modification part of it.:)

[chiboy002]

:0 ill do this on my driver side. I was driving down the road and the passenger side tore off and was gone i guess, i never found it

Might hit up a junk yard for the liners :\

[Edwin562]

hell ya bro.. looks nice and its functional.. lol ima try this when i get my new fenders in.. thumbs up again bro..

[soreballz]

Your modified liners make me feel bad about the shittiness of my modified liners.

Good work!

[D.Adams]

Nice work man. Im going to make the front liners out of aluminum sheet metal because i dont have the plastic ones.

Thanks for reminding me i need to do this

[franklin93zx]

this is exactly what I did on my z32

[Bushido]

wish i did this on my s13 before i trashed the liners...

my fenders are full of road debris and gunk.

[zooopreme]

great work, will definitely give this a try when I get my wheels

[DreamN]

I prepped a set very similar. Good job Broadfield. I'll take mine out of storage and finally see what they look mounted up one day.

[hOngsterr]

i grasp doing the fronts, but the rears i will have to look over again.

[soreballz]

^ I have never seen an S13 with fender liners in the rear, thus, I am inclined to believe that they never came equipped with them.

[Om1kron]

lol no point in runing oem liners when there's nothing going down my fenders =)

[Broadfield]

i grasp doing the fronts, but the rears i will have to look over again.

^ I have never seen an S13 with fender liners in the rear, thus, I am inclined to believe that they never came equipped with them.

Uhhh the rear section of the front liner... not a "rear" liner. I assumed you could tell by the pics that it wasn't the rear of the car.

[negrosx13]

wow super clean..dammnnn i should've never gave away my liner

[C. Anderson]

Great job! This is a must for daily drivers. The only thing is I would think leaves and debris would still get over the small rear liner.

[projectRDM]

I did similar to my S14 for the same reasons, without the liner it looks really shitty. It's easy to just figure where there's contact and cut it away to fit.

[hOngsterr]

^ I have never seen an S13 with fender liners in the rear, thus, I am inclined to believe that they never came equipped with them.

Uhhh the rear section of the front liner... not a "rear" liner. I assumed you could tell by the pics that it wasn't the rear of the car.


yeah i meant the REAR portion of the liner, i only said rear because we were looking at the front of the car.

but last night i felt around and felt that lip you bent back, so i understand now lol

sorry sorry.

[CamryOnBronze]

Ordering mine this week so that I can try to get this done before you know what. Thanks for explaining it man!

[wannabdr1ftr]

thanks for the write up... defiantly going to do this in the future

[Black240Ct]

very cool.. that rear part of the fender can save cars this fall with all the wet leaves getting stuck in there

[soreballz]

Uhhh the rear section of the front liner... not a "rear" liner. I assumed you could tell by the pics that it wasn't the rear of the car.
Drunken reading comprehension fail. Shame on me. I knew what was going on in your pics, but I misunderstood what Hong meant.

[Broadfield]

Ordering mine this week so that I can try to get this done before you know what. Thanks for explaining it man!

I got your back as usual... cuz you know damn well Kyle and Jeff only care about themselves. Well, I guess Jeff did teach you the art of the "power stance".

[chiboy002]

Ordering mine this week so that I can try to get this done before you know what. Thanks for explaining it man!
would you mind telling me where you ordered them from? i hate the dealership by my house, they suck.

[HS13KLS]

toby, if anyone needs some brand new s13 liners (still in the box) i have some i can ship.
i have a s14 now.. so i have no use for them.

if anyone is interested you can PM me

[Broadfield]

toby, if anyone needs some brand new s13 liners (still in the box) i have some i can ship.
i have a s14 now.. so i have no use for them.

if anyone is interested you can PM me

There ya go Chiboy... even in Illinois!

Thanks Kim!

[projectRDM]

would you mind telling me where you ordered them from? i hate the dealership by my house, they suck.

Use another dealer. It's an OE part, there's no other place you can order them besides the dealer.

[CamryOnBronze]

Russell At NissanParts.cc can get them... HS13KLS has a legit brand new set for sale for an awesome price too- I emailed Russell first, so I am probably getting them through him, but someone should buy his as well if I don't. :)

[mikovu]

I'm having issues hammering the lip for the rear section, any tips?