Guascone
Member
There's always the two schools of thought around "cheap, tear-able, replacable" stock/plastic and "expensive but sturdy" steel aftermarkets. To each their own, but one pseudo myths you'll hear about steel is that if you get a good enough impact it will crush in/leave body damage. Anything's possible with enough force, but the "good ones" out there like Poison Spyder come with additional sub-frame brackets that sit behind the sheet metal, in line with the flare, and butt up against the inner frame, which means load is transferred past the quarter panel sheet metal. I've used my rear steel crusher flares countless times as a tree/rock pivots for swinging around tight spaces and it's really saved my hard top and rear quarter panels from getting munched.
Interesting point of view!
Thanks