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Quality Replacement Panels

BroncoinAlaska

Sr. Member
Joined
Mar 26, 2007
Messages
509
Loc.
San Antonio, TX
I am looking to replace both rockers, Inner fender skirts and my passenger side front door pillar. I will be going with a factory rockers, even though they are more expensive, but go with my stock rebuild. The recent thread of parts not fitting correctly had me thinking that I should check to see who carries the best replacement panels. Looking for some advice as to which vendor to order from. I do not have a preference just want to get the best avaiable.
 

baglock

Full Member
Joined
Feb 11, 2008
Messages
182
I've bought front fenders inner and outer, grill, rockers and front wheel tub from Tom's bronco parts recently with only some minor tweaking needed at the rocker. Hope thet helps, good luck.
 

TN1776

Bronco Guru
Joined
Oct 24, 2006
Messages
2,632
Here's the thing to remember about replacement panels - even factory parts and the ones that were "made with factory tooling". They would be a perfect or nearly perfect fit if the vehicle was new. Our Broncos are far from new and in the 30-40 some years of their existence, you can't expect all the body panels to be exactly the same as they were when new. The body flexes, a good number have had some sort of rust or accident repair, etc. All of this means that even with brand new factory parts, you'd be hard pressed for a perfect fit.
 

bighorn

Full Member
Joined
Mar 7, 2007
Messages
324
I've found jbg and dennis carpenters panels to fit very well with minor fitting. some more than others but overall a good experience.
 
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