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I have noted that most of the first Gen cars that I've seen have large cracks, holes or even missing inner fender liners. I already replaced both of mine and I'd rather replace the intake manifold any day than a fender liner.

I haven't noticed if this is also common on the Matrix and Corolla. I wonder if these poor fender liners are common across the entire line or do the Vibes use different ones than what is used on the Matrix?

I was just at a junk yard. My own has a hole in the driver's side front wheel well liner, just behind the driver's side fog light.

And every single junked Vibe I saw, all 8! of them, had the same hole. Which surprised me.

I wonder if it's a common problem.

My '05 has a hole in the driver's side fender liner as well. Somewhere here I read that the air pressure under the fender gets so high that the liner gets pushed against the tire causing that hole. I guess a hole in the fender liner is a great way of relieving that pressure.....

I have black duct tape on the hole on the driver's side of ours. On the '03 I owned a long time ago, most of the liner was duct taped back together.

Pretty sure they used milk jug plastics for these parts.

ColonelPanic wrote: Pretty sure they used milk jug plastics for these parts.

I thought mine Moooed when I replaced it..

I had a hole worn in my front drivers side liner. I took some flashing tape and covered it up, and also found that I was missing a plastic pin holding the inside bottom of the liner to the rest of that plastic air shield stuff. Without that pin, the whole side of the front was loose, putting it in stiffened it all up. Just did a 2000 mile road trip, and saw no sign of any tire wear on the flashing tape, so maybe mine was from excessive play from the missing pin

I just replaced the liners on both sides, the plastic clips all crumbled when removing, so I replaced them w new ones. Looks good now but we will see how long before it happens again. FYI, I got eBay liners, both for less than $40, they fit just like the oem ones that came off.

My 05 also has a hole on the driver-side front inner fender. Based on this thread, I think it is very common.