More recently, say the past year, a set of four originals have been selling for around $75 - $85.
Some words of wisdom learned the hard way.....
When I was installing the custom ones from Mav, I snapped off one of the little bar tabs on my front driver's side, like Breezy said, the plastic is very brittle.
I thought the other 3 tabs would hold it in place......then for the longest time I'd hear this weird rattle noise coming from outside the truck on the driver's side. I never could figure out what it was....until.....Dave and I were driving somewhere in separate trucks and HE noticed that %$#@ cap bobbling around when he was next to me. Because the tower goes through them they can't fall off, but if all 4 tabs aren't holding it, the wind will pop it up and the bobbling will begin.
This went on for probably 6-8 months before we figured it out. In that time, the bottom edge of the side of the cap with the missing tab was completely destroyed, all abraded, chipped up and rough. It was on the inner side so I never SAW anything wrong....since I'm not as tall as VXorado or H3_VX
I used earthquake putty (museum putty) to hold it down and that worked fine for highway and trails.....but I wanted an unbroken one!
So I bought another set from a forum member....and Mav offered to cut me another front driver's cap.
So that was like a $90 screw up!
That reminds me....."Ron" wanted to borrow the new set to make molds from.....Ron (Rudy).....you still out there? Still have my rail caps?
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Originally Posted by VX KAT
- sounds good!
