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Glava2876 Enthusiast

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I have a 2015 Delali Crew cab short box with factory running boards.

It also has the factory wheel well trim -unpainted black.

It also has factory chip coating along quite a bit of the lower rocker panels etc.

We get an average of 120" of snow and I work from home, but travel 1-2 days weekly to visit customers, which can be from 12 miles to 250 miles round trip.

Do I need mud flaps or will the running boards and chip coating be enough?

If I do need mud flaps, what are the best ones that will be OK with the factory wheel well opening trim?

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Badass69 Senior Enthusiast

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My truck at 2500 miles has chips on the box sides where the bed flares in front of the rear tires. Its chipping above where my 3m stops which is the height of the mouldings on the door all the way back....I had 3m applied all over the truck and have mud flaps... and all I drive thus far is highway. I even 3m covered all that chip resistant stuff on the bottom of the truck because it comes off in chunks when it does chip. I have seen it on quite a few of these trucks now. Maybe your roads are cleaner, I dunno.

 

The boards will help a ton with the bottom of the truck chipping. I just could not stand the look of those things on such a butt dragging truck lol.

 

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Glava2876 Enthusiast

Glava2876

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I know the running boards should help -I probably wouldn't have ordered them, but I bought this one off the lot as it was and actually thought about taking them off.

But with the extra protection they give, it may make sense to leave them on -maybe take them off every summer LOL

Clocked92 Enthusiast

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I had the dealer remove the running boards on my truck because I didn't like them. Now I am looking for another set to help with rocks and salt. I do have the Factory GMC Molded plastic mud flaps and I think they help quite a bit. they also flow with the existing black moulding really well.

Tek74 Enthusiast

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I went with Weather Tech "front" mud flaps. Easy install. Good looks. Good side protection. No regrets.

 

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Eddie 70 Senior Enthusiast

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I went with Weather Tech "front" mud flaps. Easy install. Good looks. Good side protection. No regrets.

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I went with WeatherTech on mine also but we both have a Silverado. They do install very easily and it probably takes 10 minutes each to do them.

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Tek74 Enthusiast

Tek74

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Yeah.........I don't know if the wheel well trim will be a problem or not.

jonny24 Enthusiast

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I had a bunch of chips behind the rear wheels, so I put some on. Seems better now. I'd do it.

BuyAmericanIron Enthusiast

BuyAmericanIron

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I went with the factory molded stone guards. Looks like they should be there and offers good protection. Overall very happy with them.

Jackseric Enthusiast

Jackseric

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My 2014 Sierra Denali came with both the color-matched factory molded flaps and the factory running boards. They're pretty darn nice and I have ZERO chips. I've put 15K miles on my truck in the year I've owned it and probably 75% of those miles are highway, including 2 round-trips between Ohio and Florida. My front bumper looks like complete crap, but the sides of my truck are completely untouched. If you're looking for protection... they are fantastic.

15 Z71 Senior Enthusiast

15 Z71

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I just bought some GMC factory ones for my 15. Been kid of worried about putting them on. I thought they were like my 06. But I see I have to drill some holes. Anybody else put these kind on? Just worried about drilling holes in my 3 month old truck.

sahls01gmc Senior Enthusiast

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After 250,000 miles, I wish I would have put mudflaps on. I personally can't stand the look of them, but it would have prevented this:

 

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But, I did fix it with 3M rubber undercoating spray:

 

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These are in excellent shape in comparison to what's left of my rockers..... Glad you are wanting to get ahead of it now! I also used my truck extensively off road and on construction sites for 10 years, so that explains the "severe" wear and tear.

Glava2876 Enthusiast

Glava2876

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"My 2014 Sierra Denali came with both the color-matched factory molded flaps and the factory running boards. They're pretty darn nice and I have ZERO chips. I've put 15K miles on my truck in the year I've owned it and probably 75% of those miles are highway, including 2 round-trips between Ohio and Florida. My front bumper looks like complete crap, but the sides of my truck are completely untouched. If you're looking for protection... they are fantastic.​"

 

This is great to hear -except for the front bumper LOL.

Based on this and the others, I am going to order the factory flaps -unpainted black like my factory fender trim.

Thanks everyone for the opinions!

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