It just depends on how much you like your paint job. If you don't care about rock chips on the rocker pannel area then take them off. If you don't want A LOT of rock chips than my advice would be leave tham on untill you can get fender flares.

FYI you might want to check your local laws I have knownpeople to be ticketed for not having them if there trucks were over aspecified height (measured from the ground to the bottomof the bed).
Hope this helps
B

 

Keep 'em!!!!!

 

hmm... now its getting harder to decide... who's runnin bigger ones?

 

this shows the bigger one's before the tire swap



With the wider tires I've GOT to put flares on it...even front flaps ain't gonna help keep the crud off the side of the truck.

 

I just think the mud flaps that are on there with my 35's kinda look too small....

 

Good point. Then go bigger as lilfroger mentioned.

 

I can't believe all you so called 4x4 people out there missed the boat on this one!
The correct answer is - REMOVE mud flaps. ADD fender flares!!!

And the cool thing is - they come flat black, you wouldn't even need to paint them!!!
When things get better around here and I can get back home to Ga. (someday maybe) and get to more off roading than I'm doing now, my chrome fender trim is coming off and I'm gonna get some big ole' fender flares and have them color matched...

 

Take them off... I did removed mine and the truck looks alot better without them, granit mine has a street tire and not a huge mud tires....

 

haha... hammer that pic is soo persuading... you wanna get me an xmas present?

 

Either way your truck is sick.


Chris