VW Golf wheel arch 'spats'

[wildcat45]

All I can think is to call them Spats. Golfs had them through a couple of generations. Plastic bits on the leading part of the wheel arch.!



The Golf had quite flared arches. What was it for? I guess stone chip protection. Polos and Jettas had it too.

As far as I can tell only one other car to feature this so prominently was the Chrysler/Simca/Talbot Horizon. I could be wrong there maybe some BL cars had them. The Horizon appeared to have very similar wheel arch flaring to the Golf.



Any ideas?

[wildcat45]

What are they for?

[wildcat45]

Thanks. My second motoring mystery solved in one night.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...