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Hi everyone, this is my inaugural post, there's some great info on here for us Prado lovers and i have been getting a great education reading everybodies posts!.
Now i have a 2005 GX 3l turbo diesal and i am looking at upgrading her boots to something a little more luscious. As the GX doesn't have the flares that the GLX does, i am limitted to the width of tyre i can legally put on it due to tyre over hang outside the guards. I read in last years catalogue the price for ARB fiberglass wheel arch flares was around $800 bucks, this was for a black or white, rather generic type of flare as seen on Late model Tritons, Trusty 80 series, the kind that just follows the line of the guard, if you know what i mean.
This year ARB have raised the price too $2033 and are calling them fiberglass body flares and they need to be colour coded to the colour of your truck.
I figure that the rise in price and different wording means that they are seeing a market for converting GX looking Prados into the more fashionable GLX type, and the obvious benefit of being able to re-boot your truck with some serious rubber.
Ringing my ARB central store here in Perth the guy on the phone didn't really have a clue what i was on about, he was about to give up on me when i asked him if he could ask someone else in the store if they know anything about them. The answer came back that yes they do make your GX look like a GLX. Their performance over the phone has not instilled in me confidence in their knowledge of the product and further their ability to install it on my baby.
Has any one looked at this latest flare kit?
Does it make your GX look like a GLX?
Has any of our Perth Prado owners had much to do with ARB here in Osborne Park?
Thanks in advance guys for your reply's
Geoff Roberts
Now i have a 2005 GX 3l turbo diesal and i am looking at upgrading her boots to something a little more luscious. As the GX doesn't have the flares that the GLX does, i am limitted to the width of tyre i can legally put on it due to tyre over hang outside the guards. I read in last years catalogue the price for ARB fiberglass wheel arch flares was around $800 bucks, this was for a black or white, rather generic type of flare as seen on Late model Tritons, Trusty 80 series, the kind that just follows the line of the guard, if you know what i mean.
This year ARB have raised the price too $2033 and are calling them fiberglass body flares and they need to be colour coded to the colour of your truck.
I figure that the rise in price and different wording means that they are seeing a market for converting GX looking Prados into the more fashionable GLX type, and the obvious benefit of being able to re-boot your truck with some serious rubber.
Ringing my ARB central store here in Perth the guy on the phone didn't really have a clue what i was on about, he was about to give up on me when i asked him if he could ask someone else in the store if they know anything about them. The answer came back that yes they do make your GX look like a GLX. Their performance over the phone has not instilled in me confidence in their knowledge of the product and further their ability to install it on my baby.
Has any one looked at this latest flare kit?
Does it make your GX look like a GLX?
Has any of our Perth Prado owners had much to do with ARB here in Osborne Park?
Thanks in advance guys for your reply's
Geoff Roberts
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