Mudflaps like B52 Bomb doors

[cros]

I reluctantly fit mudflaps to my cars due to living a couple of miles from a dairy farm that smothers the road with cowshit. Its a horrible job just finding a way to fix them on without damaging the bodywork, which is why you put them on in the first place. Modern cars are perhaps better protected in this regards, so any thoughts on this fascinating subject?

[UltraWomble]

Sikkaflex.

 

Fitted mudflaps to a few of my cars using this stuff.

[oldcars]

I was thinking about this the other day too. Just got a set for the 75, that use metal clip things to hold them on. The Shuma had holes pre drilled and used plastic screw things and there has been no issues. I would try and get original ones. What car are they for?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I used to take them off my cars for aesthetic reasons, but I'm thinking of getting some for my Merc as it gets dirtier than any car I've ever known.

Of course ,even on eBay proper Merc ones are about £100 a set, I quite fancy some with a great big white 3 pointed star like giffers used to put on W123s.

[Bren]

They tend to rub the paint away where they touch the bodywork.

[cros]

I was thinking about this the other day too. Just got a set for the 75, that use metal clip things to hold them on. The Shuma had holes pre drilled and used plastic screw things and there has been no issues. I would try and get original ones. What car are they for?

I'm putting some on my Landrover at present but its all a bit miserable as there's nowhere ideal to attach them too. The normal place is onto the rear chassis cross member, but this allows muck to be thrown up into the nooks and crannies and is why the crossmember rots away. Looks horrible too. At the front mud gets thrown up all over the foot wells and, worse, the bulkhead. The main reason for these vehicles longevity is that eventually you'll get back to metal thick enough for even the worst bodger to weld onto.

[inconsistant]

Lay them on the cow shit then drive over them.

[cros]

Good idea. Sure does stick well.

[oldcars]

I'm putting some on my Landrover at present but its all a bit miserable as there's nowhere ideal to attach them too. The normal place is onto the rear chassis cross member, but this allows muck to be thrown up into the nooks and crannies and is why the crossmember rots away. Looks horrible too. At the front mud gets thrown up all over the foot wells and, worse, the bulkhead. The main reason for these vehicles longevity is that eventually you'll get back to metal thick enough for even the worst bodger to weld onto.

Landrover ones are ones like rubber car mats if i remember. As you say the front one seems to attache about half a foot along the sill not ideal. 

[strangeangel]

I just removed the surviving three from the CJ. The weight of the two attached to the rear valance had snapped the crappy plastic 'clothes pegs' attaching this device to the bumper, causing the whole lot to wobble about drunkenly once in motion. I can jet wash the arches and apply some of the gallons of free Waxoyl cluttering up my garage instead, ta.

[vulgalour]

I remember seeing a video of a Ford Farnham police car that had a full width skirt on the back.  It was something to do with making it more visible and reducing spray on the motorway.  Quite liked it, but might not be too practical on a LR.

[Jim Bell]

 

Pop rivet to bumper. Be rally driver.

[sierraman]

Every set I've had chafed the paint thus causing corrosion. Ended up chucking them last time as I put some larger wheels on and they rubbed so ripped them off with some stillsons as the clips were going nowhere.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Only mental old giffers go out of their way to fit these useless and unattractive bits of discarded conveyor belt. Just hose out behind the wheels now and then, problem solved

[Station]

Does anyone know how to use these? Never figured out how they work.

 

 

I put these I bought from Cholmondeley 2012 on my Nissan, which I thought really suited them. The next owner said they were coming straight off - horses for courses!

 

[Junkman]

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Yosemite-Sam-Splash-Guards-Mud-Flaps-NOS-Warner-Bros-1991-Looney-Tunes-/111842180529

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-NOS-SET-MUD-FLAPS-SPLASH-FENDER-GUARDS-AUTO-TRUCK-50s-60s-70s-ACCESSORY-/201480234892

[tooSavvy]

 

These came from an 'oldskool' corner shop car place. Possibly suitable for 1100s.

 

I cut a small piece out of the 'L' sill moulding notch & screwed them into the plastic liner.... no holes in steel

 

 

GR9 @ around £3 (rummage tub FTW)

 

 

TS

 

*the original 'pepperpot' steels were skipped when the tyres died....

 

 

 

..... betta

[dave21478]

Its all fun and games until one day you have to reverse up a kerb and rip them all off.

[mercrocker]

I'm with Mr Bollox on this. In every case I have personally encountered mudflaps attached through painted areas which are then almost impossible to protect afterwards. In many cases the attachment method and design actually creates another mud/rain/snow/salt trap a lot harder to deal with than the often simpler exposed area prior to fitting.

 

I tend to remove any on cars that I buy, carefully repair and protect the fitting area and keep on top with the hose and water routine.

 

One of the most useful things you can do, in the height of summer, is scrupulously clean the inner lip of wheel arches with a nailbrush and get them properly wax protected long before winter. Weekly wash-outs then tend to work loads better....

[Uncle Jimmy]

Proper mudflaps.

 

Attached with a rather flimsy aluminium bracket, which *should break easily if flap ever gets caught in something substantial, like pedestrian or similar.

[cros]

Does anyone know how to use these? Never figured out how they work.

 

 

I put these I bought from Cholmondeley 2012 on my Nissan, which I thought really suited them. The next owner said they were coming straight off - horses for courses!

 

Those clips are hopeless. One of the few things I envy on modern cars are the plastic wheelarch lineers. You can buy aftermarket ones for MGBs but they fit as badly as those shitty clips.

I've made liners for the P4 and now a set for the landrover are taking shape. Will stick a photo of them on here for Mr Bollocks to laugh at.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Those clips are hopeless. One of the few things I envy on modern cars are the plastic wheelarch lineers. You can buy aftermarket ones for MGBs but they fit as badly as those shitty clips.

I've made liners for the P4 and now a set for the landrover are taking shape. Will stick a photo of them on here for Mr Bollocks to laugh at.

Surely 'plastic' and 'Rover P4' are mutually exclusive? 1/8" thick galvanised dustbin cut about maybe?

[Hendry]

It's no help on older cars but most post 2000 stuff has moulded plastic flaps which don't rub away paint or anything like that and generally the bumper has holes inside the wheel arch areas for screwing them onto. They work a lot better than old actual rubber flaps but some are hollow so mud collects in them. Tbh I find them totally pointless and usually ruin the look of a car.

[Tamworthbay]

I generally dread buying old cars with mudflaps as I know there's usually about a 50% chance of there being a great big cricket ball of damp mud behind it which has rotted out the inner arches. Dependent on the design, there's also a substantial chance of damp building up underneath it and rotting out the outer arches too! Great stuff.If you're bothered about the car being dirty just call in at a coin-operated jetwash and stick a quid in it, if it's just down the sides you'll clear it off in no time. With the remaining time you can also give the underside a good blast off and use your last 10 seconds to blast hot shampoo all over some bell-end like I did a while back.

my capri project was solid at the back end apart from where the mudflaps were. It has caused a real headache and would have been better just left without.

[xtriple]

Those clamps pictured above are what I used to get te clutch out of a Vauxhall Nova!  Honest!

[Formula Autos]

I've fitted a few sets to various cars over the years as I live in a rural area and use my car for work. Sometimes I have to drive down farm tracks and the like, and I've come to the conclusion that cow shite is the active ingredient in Araldite.

 

The easiest way to secure mud flaps seems to be to take one of the longer screws holding the wheelarch liner out and screw it/ a slightly longer screw back in through the mudflap. A few more self tappers into the wheelarch liner and job jobbed. Never had any bother with paint rubbing off either - the weight of the mudflap seems to be borne by the liners in most cases.

[panhard65]

I quite like my flaps. The 204 has originals from 1968 and they are moulded around a steel rod so can move freely.

I also made these for my old Hotchkiss as it really used to chuck out a load of shit when it was wet.

When I had a Land Rover 110 years ago I made up some front mudflaps that just covered that gap between the bottom of the bulkhead and the cross member. Why Land Rover didn't extend the wheel arch liner to cover this rust trap I will never know.

 

[plasticvandan]

i love mudflaps.Reliant had mudflaps which clamped onto the rear leaf springs,ergo no rotten,ermm bodywork? lol