Having the Fab shop make tail light guards (like wekilled and Julian911 have)


Passenger side- No problem, 2 metal tabs still allow door to close w/o rubbing

PROBLEM- Driver's side-
  • Clearance between edge of plastic lens and left edge of tail gate is smaller than other side, smaller by at least 3/8" ! .

  • Then it gets worse when rear door is opened about 45 degrees, the clearance on the INNER GRAY vertical part of lens is extremely small....about 1/16".

  • The metal tabs will really chew up the metal edge of door.



  • Haven't heard back from Julian or Doug on how they handled this, or even if they had an issue....handmade and all that....



  • Since I don't know what it looks like behind tail lamp unit.....and the gray vertical part of the lamp unit does appear to be biased to the right a bit more than other side...


1) Is there any way to move the light unit to the left some way? Shim it?

2) Do we dare notch the edge of the metal door (maybe 1/8") and apply primer and touch up paint?

3) Do we sand down the vertical inner gray part of lamp, (this gray part is not visible unless you open gate and look in the space)......AND / OR sand down the edge of the plastic lens itself? (Realizing we don't want to break the "seal" on that lamp and have moisture get in....I snapped a used tail lamp on ebay this morning just in case)

4) Use much thinner metal for these tabs...would they be strong enough?

5) Do we take a COMPLETELY different approach and drill about 4-6 mounting holes symmetrically along the outline of the lens and have metal attachment tabs welded to the guard? We wouldn't use any of the 3 mounting points Doug and Julian used. That would mean drilling into the body metal and the cladding




Sorry, no pics.
ANY SUGGESTIONS / GUIDANCE since many of you know what that area looks like?

Thanks!