Alternatives to ready to fit plastic arches.

Hi all.

With the Disco now out of MOT and a sri Vectra to get me around, its time i got on with a few upgrades to go with the MOT prep work.
Now i've already got a set of Monroe Adventure shocks and springs and i've also been offered some 255 off road tires.

However I know i will have to cut the arches to fit them on and get some arch extensions to make sure it'll pass the MOT.

But everywhere i've looked these arch extensions are over £150, sorry but i can't justify paying that sort of money for 4 bits of plastic.

So my question is anyone found any cheap alternatives to use on their Discovery?

Cheers Chris.

Dunno what's missing but saw this on fleabay:

Land Rover Discovery Wheel Arch Extension Protectors NR on eBay (end time 24-Feb-10 20:41:10 GMT)

But they're a bunch of other ones on there.

discovery arches, Vehicle Parts Accessories, Stamps, Baby items at low prices on eBay.co.uk

That first one looks like a Disco 2 standard arches, does anyone know how far they stick out? Might have to go have a look and see if theres one still in my local scrappy.

agrigultural rubber belt

sounds interesting but i have no idea what you mean lol.

its a plastic/rubber belt about 8mm thick, just right to be bent around inside the arch and fixed in place

ah ok, where should I look for one of these, what are they used for on farm machinery?

i have posted this before and it was laughed at but i used door draft excluder brushes once glued on with tough stuff glue sideways on ie the plastic bristle grip stuck around the arch bristles sticking out to form an eyebrow its effective (look at the spray suppressors on an artic )and if you stick em on right they take a good bash to knock them off at about a fiver an arch its not a bad fix

hmmm, thats an idea, cheers mate.

Just thinking if i could get a plastic arch cover off an artic i could probably cut that into 4 and give it a go.