How to Install Fender Flares 2014-15 Chevy Silverado

Andy: What's up, guys? I'm Andy from 1A Auto. In this video, I'm going to show you how to install these fender flares from 1AAuto.com. It's going to give your truck a more aggressive look. If you want these or other parts for your vehicle, click the link in the description, and head over to 1AAuto.com.

All right, I want to take this off. I want to take these two screws out. I'm going to use a T15 and a ratchet, take those out. Take those out, set these aside. We will reuse one of them. Grab this and just pull it off. Underneath here, I'm just going to slide it forward, there's a little clip right there. These two little clips, those are going to stay in there, because the new guard is going to cover those, the new fender flare. At this point, I'm just going to throw this away, because I'm not going to need it anymore. Now, I'm just going to take some soapy water and a mitt, and I'm going to wash that area of the vehicle. You could wash the whole care if you want to. But, the reason of why I waited until I got that off was so I could get underneath there. Right now, I'm just going to wipe it down with a wet rag. I don't have a hose inside here, so I'll just rinse off with soapy water, then we can dry it.

With a fender flare, we want to put it on a soft surface. You can use a blanket, or a towel, or something. We're just using these mats so we don't scratch anything. Now, we're going to get this prepared to go on the vehicle. If you wanted to, you could have a professional paint this before, or you could do it yourself. On the backside, what we're going to do is take some alcohol and a rag. Rubbing alcohol is fine. I'm just going to wipe on the inside up here, just like that, go all the way around. Just on the top side, you don't have to do it on the bottom side, on the inside. One set's all dry, we're going to apply this rubber seal.

There is double-sided tape on one side of it. You're just going to run it around, and then you're going to trim it, and you're going to use this for all four of them. If you want to get this started here, I'm just going to peel a little bit of this back, just like that. I'll get it started in the corner. This does take a little bit of patience. Then, just put it on just like a zipper. Now, I'm just going to make sure I leave some of that double-sided tape, so that I can access it later. All right, I'm almost to the end. It's starting to lift up. I think I'm just going to stop there, because every time I go to here and then go over to here, it lifts up over here.

So I'm going to start taking the tape off. Just make sure ... So what I do is, just secure that corner right there. That's pretty good. Then, go a couple inches forward, peel the tape, and then push it down. Go a little further, peel the tape, push it down. I'm just going to do that the whole way. So this area, I'm just going to make sure I get this attached first, peel this a little bit. Try and get in that corner there. I'm just going to take some cutters and cut it right here. I can trim it down a little bit later. There we go, make it a little easier. All right, that's in that corner, peel this back a little bit. Pull it the rest of the way. All right, that's good. Then, I'm just going to trim right here, just use some side cutters.

Now, we want to fill these holes before we install this. So we have these bolts, the washer, so the bolt goes on the washer, and the washer's just on the outside, then we have a nut. We'll slide that through the outside, put the nut on the inside. There is nylon thread locker on the nut. The kit actually comes with this T45 bit. So I've tried this a couple ways, it seems like the easiest way to use this is to take an eight millimeter wrench, put the bit in the wrench, and we're going to hold it from the backside. Just like that, hold the screw. We'll take a 13 millimeter socket and a ratchet, and tighten this up. You just want to snug it up, not too tight. It is plastic, so just snug. That's good. We're going to do the same all around, the rest of the flare. So in case you were wondering, these are just cosmetic, these don't actually attach to the fender. The only attachment is on the bottom. When you attach the bottom screws, it pushes enough force so that keeps the flare up against the fender.

All right, now we're ready to make some marks. You want to line this up on the vehicle. We're going to reuse the factory hole right here, so line that up with the factory hole right there. You can put the screw in if you want to. Then, if that looks like it's good all the way around, make sure it looks good over here. Then, we're going to take a marker, we're just going to mark where these holes are, just like that. Now we're going to pull it down. A marker that showed up would be more ideal, but I didn't want to get marks on the fender flare, so I'll use this right here. Now, what you need to do is measure from this side of the fender in 16 millimeters right here, and then right here as well, 16 millimeters. Then, the back three, right here, right here, and right here. You want those 12 millimeters. So a easy trick is to take a 16 millimeter wrench, line this up right here, and make a mark. We can make a mark right there where that's going to be. So that's 16 millimeters on this one right here, the same. That's 12 millimeters, that's going to be right there. It goes here, 12 millimeters. All right, that's pretty good.

Now, this may seem a little bit scary, but don't be scared. We are going to take a little pilot drill. We'll use a 3/16" drill bit. I'm just going to drill right here. You could take a center punch and just punch it, so the drill doesn't walk away. But, we're all set, just like that. There we go.

We are going to use one of these screws from the old hardware. Then, we have five new of these self-tapping screws we're going to use. I'm going to grab a friend to help me hold this up while I get these in. Otherwise, it's kind of hard to get this set properly. Now, let's just slide this into position. Make sure that looks pretty good. You're going to start this bottom one first. Then, I'm going to have my helper hold up here, and I'm going to get this front one started. I'll take this self-tapping screw and a screw gun with a Phillips head bit. Get that one started. Then, we're going to do the same with the other ones. Just make sure the holes line up. All right, so those are all in, so now I'll tighten down the bottom one with a T15 and a ratchet. You can take the old screw and stick that down there if you want to, just to keep it in the vehicle. It's not going to hold anything in.

Now, the front one's done, you can do the same with the other side. Now, we're going to move on to the rear. I'm going to use the T15 and a ratchet. I'm going to take these bolts out here. There's one, two, three, four, four bolts. All right, with those bolts out, take this, take that right off. Then, we're going to take those two screws out, the same T15 and a ratchet. Take those screws out, and there's these push pins underneath here. I'm just going to use a trim tool to pop these off. Oops. That one broke. Don't worry about that. These are a little bit brittle. That one broke too. Pop those off. You just slide this off, just like that. Don't worry about those broken push pins, because we're not going to reuse that panel or the front panel, we can leave those push clips in there. I'm just going to wash this area.

These two bolts, or screws, are going to go back in here, especially if you have an inner fender liner. This vehicle doesn't have one, but so we'll just put those in anyway. Now, we're going to do the same with this one. We're going to clean the inside surface, and then apply that rubber seal. We want to do the same with these bolts. Put the bolts on the washer, slide that from the front side. Then, we'll snug them all down. Now, we'll take the fender flare, just slide it in position, get these bolts lined up. That looks pretty good. We'll take a marker, just going to mark in these holes, just like on the front side. Now with those marked, take it down again.

Now, we're going to take these S clips, and we're just going to slide these on right here. They're going to go on like that, so it's going to be kind of the opposite of how you would think. You don't actually have to drill holes in the truck. Those all in position, take the fender flare, line it up. Now, at the bottom, they give you these self-tapping screws. They want you to put those where the factory screws would go. Just get those started. All right, we'll get this one started right here as well. Then, they have these little screws that we're going to use in all of these positions. Get those lined up. Just take a Phillips head screwdriver, get these all started. It might be helpful to have a friend hold the fender for you, the flare, so it's easier to get the screws in.

All right, now that those are all in, I can go back and just tighten these down, snug them up. Not too tight. Now, I'm going to use a screwdriver. I am going to use an electric ratchet to tighten these down. You could take the tire off and just use a drill to tighten them down. But, I don't ... I can't fit in there with the drill, I'll just use this. And do the same on this front one. There we go.

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