hey everyone,

where's a good place to get skins???

thanks

 

I'm pretty sure you can't buy them anymore. They did cost about $450.00 when you could get them. You can cut them out yourself for a lot cheaper but it takes a few hours if you're a perfectionest. My suggestion is buy a roll of 1/32 24x50 in your color choice from http://www.magnetking.com/#regularmagnet
Don't be a perfectionest because when you tape the edges you won't notice the imperfections.

 

Are they very good? I am always scared that sand will get under and scratch the crap out of the paint when the skin moves around, no matter how good you tape them.

 

[:'(]IMO, I do not think they are worth the headache. If you want to offroad, you are going to get scratches and dings, so why bother with that crap, too much trouble. IMO.[:'(]

 

The skins offer quite a bit of protection. Most trails in the North East were made for Jeeps so they are a little tight for the HUMMERS. If you took a look at my skins after wheelin Paragon or Rausch you wouldn't even think twice about getting them. As for the mud/dirt getting behind the skins and scratching the paint it doesn't happen. After putting the skins on, you tape all the edges with either Frost King Tape or blue painters tape and hardly any mud or dirt get behind the skins. Even the stuff that made it behind my skins has never hurt my paint. I can tell you that almost every H2 I wheeled with in the past had skins. I did wheel Paragon once without skins so you can do it and if you wheel beginer trails you could get away without them but IMO your better to be safe that sorry.

 

you have a photo with them on your truck??

 

Glad to see it works for the trails you roll. I have never been a big fan, but I am of the opinion a truck is a truck and if you use it like a truck the scratches add character. I gotta a couple of nice ones from limbs and crap, a little rubbing compound and wax and we are good to go. That way when something happens to my ride, I can just shrug it off an keep on truckin. I completely understand the reasons for using the skins, just not for me...

 

Love that line....

 

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interesting.....