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Anyone have Darwin PRO or Maxton Designs body kits?

Discussion in 'Model 3' started by Rothgarr, Oct 9, 2020.

  1. dwrecckk

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    One more for you guys at the service center....where they couldn’t get it into any lift and told me to goto another service center lol
     

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  2. dmd2005

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    #42 dmd2005, Feb 28, 2021
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    DA089C1F-1957-4C63-985C-3F0EEB589A1B.jpeg 5CA5380F-80AC-48C0-B8A2-833CAE038CC8.jpeg C96F2F78-77D1-47CA-BBD3-B493F89A3A1A.jpeg Finally had time to install the textured Maxton sideskirts today. Took about 2 hours to install by myself and I cut out notches on the inner parts of the sideskirts to allow Murphy jackpads or hockey pucks with a Milwaukee 12V cutout took. Used VHB and self tapping screws spaced about 10” apart. Am lowered 1.5” on MPP comfort coils and I think it looks great with the Maxton rear diffuser and UPP front lip. Will have to remove the Avery CF wrap off the UPP lip as parts of it are beginning to bubble and crack after a year.
     

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    Interesting. Looks good. Are you saying the skirts otherwise cover up the jack points?
     
  4. dmd2005

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    The skirts don’t cover up the holes for the jackpoints but the pads I use are wide.
     
  5. clerks

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    Are the different from the Amazon style pucks? Just trying to understand if I should skip the skirts.
     
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    I notched out a 1” wide by 6” long section on each jackpoint to be able to use either a Murphy Pad or puck style pad. It took 30 seconds to cutout each of the 4 areas. These are my pads and pucks I use. If you don’t want to cutout the sideskirt, you can probably remove 0.5” on a side of a puck to bot need to cutout the skirt. Relatively inexpensive sideskirt compared to other brands, so I decided to hack into them.

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