Interchange a Jeep Cherokee Rocker Panel
Jeep Cherokees are make-believe to push off-roading and be taken finished maximum conditions. With all the doable mud, douse and rocks life flung onto your Cherokee, the emulsion can chip easily and fabricate your vehicle unsightly. Swift fixes for this are the mud flaps at the end the wheels and the rocker panels under the doors. The rocker panels protect the globe of the Jeep that appropriate the most wear. The new rocker panel is imaginary elsewhere of a indurated plastic rubber-type news. You may craving to interchange your rocker panel with a custom chrome rocker panel.
Instructions
Apply the putty poniard to pry up approximately an inch of the mark of the rocker panel2. Grab the pried-up lot of rocker panel in the centre with the pliers. Slowly pull the rocker panel gone and gone from the vehicle until it comes off.1. Slide the putty ripper under the speck of the rocker panel, between the rocker panel and the steel frame panel underneath it. Slowly pry the rocker panel heel up. The adhesive on the virgin double-sided Car tape is Perfect, so this prying may accept some bout.
3. Manipulate rubbing alcohol to a rag. Circularly scrub the all-inclusive sphere under the rocker panel with the rag to remove any adhesive stains.
4. Unroll the double-sided auto tape. Lay the new rocker panel face-down on the ground. Lay the double-sided auto tape on the rocker panel. Use a utility knife to trim the length of tape to the exact size of the rocker panel. Most rocker panels have this tape pre-applied--but if not, peel the back off the piece you cut to size and firmly press it against the rocker panel.
5. Position the rocker panel against the area in which the old one was located. Once you have the rocker panel matching the exact seam line along the base of your doors, begin to peel the back off the double-sided auto tape. Have a friend hold the panel in place. Start on the front of the rocker panel (closest to the engine), and slowly peel the back off the double-sided auto tape while having the rocker panel just slightly angled away from the side of your vehicle. As you peel the back off the auto tape with one hand, slide your other hand along the top of the rocker panel to stick it to the side of your vehicle. Once you have the rocker panel on, run your hand firmly over the entire rocker panel again to make sure you got every bit of adhesive on the double-sided auto tape to stick.
6. Do this to both sides of the Jeep Cherokee.
