Mud flaps

[175gt]

Mud flaps, yay or nay? And if yay, OEM or aftermarket and rubber or hard plastic?

[mercfunder]

Depends on the car, what are we talking about?
MGs etc yes, most new cars no.

[Raize]

My mud flaps got torn off and one took a few inches of wheel arch with it So I say nay to mudflaps.

[175gt]

Just generally really, though I can see that some cars aesthetically 'need' them. Lots of OEM ones these days look like open topped, hollow hard plastic that is just going to fill with wet crud and hold it against the bodywork

[Dakkon]

Mudlfaps reduce spray in the rain on motorways massively and it is a shame more cars do not have them

[StoatInACoat]

Always look a good way of collecting mud and other crap and keeping it in the arches to me so no, not a fan.

[vixen1700]

Always associated them with ste old Moskovitchs in the 1970s, so it's a nay here.

[Cock Womble 7]

What is it with the stupid flappy vinyl ones I've seen on "Look at me, I'm Colin McRae" Evos and Subarus?

[FoundOnRoadside]

Took the OE ones off my Astra when I got it. They'd scratched the paint nearly to the primer, and were solid with sand and muck. All manner of st hiding behind them, too. In total, got half a builder's bucket of crap out of, and from behind the 4 mudflaps.

[Captain Muppet]

If I didn't have mud flaps on the front of my Elise I wouldn't have paint on the rear wings.

"Stone flaps" would be a better discription. Vital on any car with a coke bottle plan view.

[DanDC5]

Big no from me.

[Rawwr]

Raize said:

My mud flaps got torn off

Did anyone else smirk at this?

[crapper]

Captain Muppet said:

If I didn't have mud flaps on the front of my Elise I wouldn't have paint on the rear wings.

"Stone flaps" would be a better discription. Vital on any car with a coke bottle plan view.

That`s the worst `I`ve got an Elise` post I`ve ever read :P

[Cock Womble 7]

Captain Muppet said:

If I didn't have mud flaps on the front of my Elise I wouldn't have paint on the rear wings.

"Stone flaps" would be a better description. Vital on any car with a coke bottle plan view.

Do they do them in Caterham flavour?

[Highway Star]

I think they suit my Octavia 4x4 - on that sort of car (so Legacy Outbacks, Allroads, XC70s etc.), completely acceptable.

[phoenixz]

Dakkon said:

Mudlfaps reduce spray in the rain on motorways massively and it is a shame more cars do not have them

+1

not to mention it reduces the chances of stones being kicked up by cars in front.

i was driving over some newly gravelled roads (because councils can't afford to roller them in properly nowadays and use public traffic to do their work for them), i was keeping my distance and driving slowly but my windscreen still got chipped by the guy in front who had no mud flaps.

Phoenixz

[hidetheelephants]

Rawwr said:

Did anyone else smirk at this?

Sort of; I can't read mudflaps without thinking of Spinal Tap.

[Captain Muppet]

Cock Womble 7 said:

Captain Muppet said:

If I didn't have mud flaps on the front of my Elise I wouldn't have paint on the rear wings.

"Stone flaps" would be a better description. Vital on any car with a coke bottle plan view.

Do they do them in Caterham flavour?

Dunno, those nice chaps at Lotus fitted them to my car as an OE part.

[Captain Muppet]

crapper said:

Captain Muppet said:

If I didn't have mud flaps on the front of my Elise I wouldn't have paint on the rear wings.

"Stone flaps" would be a better discription. Vital on any car with a coke bottle plan view.

That`s the worst `I`ve got an Elise` post I`ve ever read :P

You should have read my posts when I first got it

I have an MX5 as well. No mud flaps and it doesn't need them. But the Elise does, so it was relavant.

[crapper]

Captain Muppet said:

You should have read my posts when I first got it

I have an MX5 as well. No mud flaps and it doesn't need them. But the Elise does, so it was relavant.

Good man. I had an Elise for 3 years, loved it to bits... oh and I do remember the mud/stone flaps, they were really suttle and did a relatively good job at keeping the stone chips down.