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They look good, resist damage and protect you from flying muck and ambitious law enforcement officers.
We had trimmed both fenders higher for larger tires, using an original flare as a pattern for trimming. As a result, the new flares perfectly match the higher openings on our Jeep.
If you don't have a couple of C-clamp vice grips yet, this might be a good time to spring for them (or borrow some from someone you can convince to loan tools.) They are ideal for clamping the flares on to position them for drilling. If you plan to paint your flares, Warn recommends doing all the positioning first, then removing the flares to paint them. We know we are going to booger ours up shortly, so we won't paint ours. 
We used our handy air-driven body saw to trim the flares to match our bobbed fenders. We took plenty of time to make sure we liked the cutting line we drew with chalk on the fender before we committed to the cut. When we were done, we liked the results. We also used the saw to trim the flares for our rocker panels and to trim the openings in the wheel wells a little better than we had done originally.
Here is the air body saw we used for the trimming. We have also used it to cut the dash for our radio plus lots of other uses. The small size and short stroke makes it much easier to use than a jigsaw or sawzall-type saw. We got ours at Harbor Freight Tools 1-800-423-2567. It is item number 36843-3CEA and costs only $39.99 in their Summer 2000 catalog #454-B. If you do order one, get some replacement blades, part #36887-OCEA for the coarse ones and #36888 for the fine ones, in packages of 5 for $6.99. You can get the saw other places as well. 
Warn advertises their CJ flares as being four inches wide, however we measured both the front and rear at five inches as installed on our rig. This was perfect for covering our tread and should protect us from ambitious law enforcement officers looking for revenue enhancement. Warn also offers Jeep YJ trail flares in a 7" width and TJ flares in 6" and 7" widths. If you would like to have these on your rig, contact just about any four wheel drive shop in your area and they should be able to get them for you. Jim Piatt
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Covering
your tires may be the law where you live. In any case, we like
protecting oursleves and those around us from stuff flying off
our tires. Here's what Warn's new flexible flares look like on
the '84 CJ-7. The fronts were trimmed to match the bobbed fenders...they
come looking much like a wider version of the original flares.
The flares come with a recess to accommodate the side marker
light, which is no longer a part of this Jeep due to raising
the wheel opening.
With
the CJ flares, you get all the nuts, bolts, and washers you will
need to mount them. These flares are not pre-drilled, so you
can drill the mounting holes any where you choose. TJ and YJ
flares come pre-drilled and with no fasteners. You use your old
ones from your original flares.