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Oct 9, 2008 | 11:52 AM

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xjcamaro89

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From: New Castle, PA

Just bought one of the black powder coated two peice ones, i hope it looks good on my bright red truck. Anyone else pick one of these up and install it yet?

Oct 9, 2008 | 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tooldad

Hey Solid By Design,
Why would I want a two piece door verses a one piece. 'splain the difference please.

It's not a function of choice, but necessity. It's dictated by the size of the factory door.

Our preference is a 2-piece door - ring and cover using the AMP Research patented cam-over plunger design hinge.

However, the F-150 door is just too small - you'd have trouble getting your fingers around the cap if the hole was further reduced by the ring - hence the one-piece door made to look like a two piece door.

Oct 11, 2008 | 02:17 PM

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Solid By Design! Kudos to you, i got my fuel door today, all the way from california to PA in 2 days, thats great. One problem. I opened my fuel door to remove it and i dont have 2 torx screw to remove the old hindge. I have a hindge that is enclosed in a box that is part of the plastic peice that mounts to the body and that the filler neck connects to. i can remove the entire plastic peice but that leaves a gapeing hole all around the filler neck and nothing for the filler neck to connect to and hold stable. I even looked up underneath the truck inside the fender and there are not any bolts or nuts under there either. I have a 2004 (new body style) F150 super cab, not a supercrew. I wonder if it was just a different style that they used for the first year or first so many trucks in the new style. Any ideas? Thanks, i might just have to go with the one peice design. but i really like the two peice and the product looks great! Thanks!

Oct 11, 2008 | 05:29 PM

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ScubaSteve

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From: Lehigh Acres, FL

Sounds like you need the one piece. The '04-'08s are one piece design. I have a '98 that the two piece looks great on and am having to go to the one piece on my new '08. Bummer, but that's life.

Oct 27, 2008 | 03:08 PM

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bye for now ... look for our '09 offerings comming soon.

www.solidbydesign.com
Hey guys, we're signing off as a sponsor for now. Finally worked through most of our old version inventory. we'll be back here when we have our new F-150 and new Super Duty fuel doors available, probably January of '09.

Thanks for the many orders and the kind words. We'll continue to build fuel doors, and continue to build them in the USA. All our vendors, and our shop, are in Orange County, California. We needed to go web direct to get within shouting distance of prices for product built over seas, and with the great response we've had here it looks like it's a sales model that will work.

We'll never be the "low cost" alternative - but we are committed to being the highest quality fuel door available, and now with web direct we can maintain that quality at a competitive price.

we still have previous version F-150 and Super Duty fuel doors available. Visit our web site. www.solidbydesign.com

See you back here soon.

Thanks again.