Fender Flares, Mud Flaps & Truck Trim in Terrell, TX

Floor mats

If you get into a work truck in boots, the carpet is already losing. Molded floor mats are cut to the exact shape of the footwell, with raised edges and channels that hold water, mud and whatever came off the site instead of letting it run onto the carpet underneath.

The difference from a universal mat is not subtle. A universal mat is a rectangle in a shape that is not a rectangle, so it slides under the pedals and lets everything off the sides. A laser-measured mat covers the whole floor including the bits that curve up at the edges, and it stays where it was put.

We fit WeatherTech, front, rear and third row. When the mat is filthy you take it out, hose it, and put it back. The carpet underneath stays worth something at trade-in.

Vent visors

A vent visor is a slim deflector over the window opening. Crack the window an inch, and the visor keeps rain out while letting hot air out. In a truck parked in a yard all afternoon in July, that is the whole point.

They also cut the drumming you get with one window down at speed, so you can run with some air without shouting over it. In-channel versions slot into the window frame and sit flush. Stick-on versions tape to the outside and stand slightly proud. Which one your truck takes depends on the window, and we will tell you which when you give us the model.

Fender flares & mud flaps

Fender flares widen the fender out over the tire. On a truck running a wider or taller tire than it left the factory with, they are what keeps mud and gravel under the truck instead of down the side of your own paint, and at the car behind you. On a truck still on factory tires, they cover a fender lip that has already taken a decade of chips.

There are two looks, and they are not interchangeable. Pocket style is the one in the photo: proud of the body, with exposed bolt heads, reading as equipment. OE style follows the line of the fender and sits nearly flush, so from twenty feet it looks like the truck came that way. Both come textured black, and some are made to take a finish. If matching them to the truck is the plan, say so before they are ordered rather than after. The same applies to a color matched bumper or rack.

Mud flaps are the other half of the same job, and the photo has one of those too. A flare stops what comes off the top of the tire. A flap stops what comes off the back: the rock that chips the rocker panel and the gravel that stars the windshield of whoever is following you down a county road. On a truck that tows, the flaps behind the rear wheels are what keep the front of the trailer from getting sandblasted.

The two go on in the same visit. Flaps come in rubber and molded plastic, and some are cut to sit behind a flare rather than in front of it. The pair get chosen together. Fitting a flare later often means the flaps come off again.

Fitment is the part to get right. Whether a set bolts to existing holes or needs new ones drilled depends on the truck. So does whether they clear the tire you are actually running. Tell us the year, make, model and what is on the truck now, including tire size if you have changed it. We will tell you which set fits before anything is ordered.

Bug shields

A bug shield mounts at the leading edge of the hood and lifts the airflow up and over. What would have hit the front of the hood, including insects at highway speed and grit off the truck in front, mostly goes over the top instead.

The front six inches of a hood is where stone chips start and where they are most obvious. Keeping that strip clean is worth the small money, particularly on a truck doing highway miles between Terrell and Dallas every day.

Also on the shelf

This category covers the parts people add on the same visit as something bigger. If you are in for a bed liner or a cover, this is the stuff worth doing at the same time rather than making a second trip. Anything you do not see, call and ask. If we do not have it, we will order it.