cruiser54

The mudflaps?

daberman

well no I meant the cream colored ribbed plastic thingee, but yeah, I was gonna post about replenishing those flaps next....

cruiser54

It's called body cladding.

daberman

is it a replace or replenish? I cant find anything on the forums about em... I guess they were placed in the later models

cruiser54

Refinish I guess.

DustyWagoneer

Slow down Trigger! HAHA!

You live in NY, and snow is almost there. So since this is your only vehicle, ya might want to make sure you have time to do things when the weather permits.
I battle the same thing here in the southern Kommiefornia mountains.
In fact I am almost outta of time to get exterior things done on my Jeep.

You have one sweet Cherokee limited, and the NY salted roads will destroy it if your not careful.
There are quite a few threads on here that detail how to remove them, and I say IMHO KEEP THEM! OH! Those mudflaps treat with kit gloves as well, those are GOLD!

The number one thing I would do is get that thing as ready for winter as possible.
Then in the spring, start new projects. That way you don't get ""Jeep burn out"".
Lord knows I am overwhelmed right now in Jeep projects. So I know all to well about burn out.

Enjoy that thing!
Go outta town to find a Christmas tree, enjoy taking drives outta the City.
Then you can dream all winter, and make a plan what to do in the spring.

You have already made it look 100% better, and we all know here you have ABSOLUTELY been bitten by the Jeep bug.
She's a keeper, and enjoy it.

PCO6

I'm almost certain that the "body cladding" ( thanks @cruiser54 ) was first put on the Limiteds in 1991, yours being an early one (Dec. 1990) so one of the first. Prior to that they had thinner rubber strips with a coloured accent stripe which was gold on the Limiteds. That's what my white 1989 Limited had. I yanked a set of body cladding off of a Laredo last week at the junk yard. They put up a real fight. A lot of the rusty metal they were stuck to came off with them! I don't think you'd have that problem but as @DustyWagoneer said KEEP THEM on.

daberman

thanks! ha! Lotta good advice here, I will take it. My plan is to get a lanolin based undercoating and let her sit through the winter mostly, I dont need a car day to day, only a few times a month and to escape the city with my cat next calamity. Whats the deal with the mudflaps? Are they hard to find or something?

daberman

Im definitely keeping the cladding, its just that a few pieces have turned cream colored, and I was wondering if there was a way to whiten them...

DustyWagoneer

In one word.

YES!

They look to be in good shape too.

daberman

I was gonna try and clean em up with some dish soap and rub some olive oil into em...

Mechanic80

A headliner replace is easy as long as the substrate is even close to decent. Drop by New Mexico and I'll do it for $150 labor plus materials.

treemonkee

Talk to a auto detailer, there are a lot of good detailer restoration products out there. I think I would save the olive oil for a salad.

RocketMouse

I got ya beat on that one...recently added a 235 for my spare too. And the one on that rim was date coded to be original to the Jeep. Mine's a 99. Looked like it had never been used. Still had the little casting nobbies on it.
But was the orig. tiny 215. Glad I never needed it with the rest being 235s. That would've sucked 6 ways from Sunday. Lol