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Rear Tire Skirts
When we bought our 2009 LD 10 years ago, one of the rear tire skirts had a crack which gradually grew.  For 10 years I tried several DIY methods which never lasted and always looked like a patch. 

Sometime last year we lost a wheel simulator on the other side which cracked the other skirt.  (A very big dang). So after months of fussing about it, we bought two unfinished skirts from Todd and had them painted and installed.   So after 10 years of annoyance and too much money, we have two new skirts.

We’re thinking our next step is to buy wheel simulators that are screwed onto the lugs for at least the rear tires.  We’d very much like to avoid another lost simulator and cracked skirt.  Grrr. 

And that’s it from stormy Tyler State Park (Texas).
 
Re: Rear Tire Skirts
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Hi Ed or Margee;  I have an 8 hole wheel simulator, you have a 4 hole. Both are Ford wheels. My simulators have two 'not fake' lug nut covers, that actually have two lug nuts that hold the simulator in place. I know that Ford changed the length of the lug nuts about 2002, so that an extender was required to add to the standard lug nuts, so that the same fastening method would work. Even newer models 2015 or so had just friction fit, wedged in place simulators. I could see how those could come loose.
    I would think that the lug nut extenders could be applied to any length lugs and that they should apply to any wheel.  Maybe a fake lug nut cover could be removed, if you had eight, and that a return to the two opposed nuts that actually hold the covers in place could be retrofitted.  I'm not sure what year went to the friction fit.
    With the weight of these vehicles, the steel wheels must deform a bit during each rotation, so I wouldn't trust the strictly friction holding. I also wouldn't want to run over an errant wheel simulator.   RonB
RonB (Bostick) living in San Diego
Original owner of "Bluebelle" a '99 TKB