Mudflaps like B52 Bomb doors

[CHRIS1980]

The front mud flaps on my Bora have worn the paint away WTF. I had a Land Rover 110 and the bulkhead was mint so chopped up some cheap floor mats and made cover for the bulkhead foot wells. Not before I slathered the thing in grease from work.

[155V6]

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

 

I had a pair similar to that,except they had Road Runner on them.I put them on a Mk 4 Cortina 2.0S.

[oldcars]

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

Been looking for a set of these for when i have some spare cash. Hard to find with the brackets.

[oldcars]

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

How dare you, im 39   

[inconsistant]

I reckon slamming is the way to go. Shirley with a bit of stance there's nowhere for the mud to go except back on the fucking road.

I'm all ideas, me.

[cros]

As Mr Panhard65 points out, some unfathomable 'features' on Landrovers. I finished my modifications late last night- they're not pretty but I've had in mind a lot of what has been mentioned here. First the 'hose out' isn't an option for me. In the winter my road is often deep in shit, and I'm not going to do it often enough to stop the salt festering away.

  The point about mudflaps trapping mud and adding to the problem has hopefully been addressed by taking them all round the wheel so theres nowhere for it to go.

 

First off I made brackets out of bits of stainless flat and bolted them to the chassis.

I had to cut the exhaust pipe and turn it through 180 degrees as its standard route takes it nice and close to the wheel to collect plenty of muck and rot off in a couple of years.

The flap is cut from a sheet of polypropylene which I shoved up into the wheel arch and bolted at the front to the chassis outrigger with more stainless bolts.

Here it is with the wheel on and an extra bit of material to reinforce the point which will get the most stick.

Same arrangement will be carried out at the front.

 

A bit of an ugly mess, but it manages to look better than the standard landrover flaps. You can see in the last pic the paint has gone from the rear crossmember- only replaced 5 years ago, but impossible to protect as its cupped shape is normally filled with everything the wheel flings at it.

[CHRIS1980]

In full agreement Mr Panhard65 points out, some unfathomable 'features' on Landrovers. I finished my modifications late last night- they're not pretty but I've had in mind a lot of what has been mentioned here. First the 'hose out' isn't an option for me. In the winter my road is often deep in shit, and I'm not going to do it often enough to stop the salt festering away.

  The point about mudflaps trapping mud and adding to the problem has hopefully been addressed by taking them all round the wheel so theres nowhere for it to go.

 

First off I made brackets out of bits of stainless flat and bolted them to the chassis.

landrover rearmudbracketedi.jpg

I had to cut the exhaust pipe and turn it through 180 degrees as its standard route takes it nice and close to the wheel to collect plenty of muck and rot off in a couple of years.

lr mudwheeless.jpg

The flap is cut from a sheet of polypropylene which I shoved up into the wheel arch and bolted at the front to the chassis outrigger with more stainless bolts.

LR muwheelJPG.jpg

Here it is with the wheel on and an extra bit of material to reinforce the point which will get the most stick.

Same arrangement will be carried out at the front.

 

A bit of an ugly mess, but it manages to look better than the standard landrover flaps. You can see in the last pic the paint has gone from the rear crossmember- only replaced 5 years ago, but impossible to protect as its cupped shape is normally filled with everything the wheel flings at it.

That's the beauty of Landies,you can do this kind of stuff and it looks all the better for it.

[xtriple]

I like the proper mudflaps that are moulded to the shape of the car. MX5 mk1 comes to mind as they looked good and did an excellent job. Also, the Turbo had factory flaps and they were a 'proper job' as well.

[plasticvandan]

Been looking for a set of these for when i have some spare cash. Hard to find with the brackets.

Reliant themselves have been selling nos flaps for a while(must have cracked open another container)

the brackets are just a 3 in piece of angle with two holes in,and a flat plate with two holes in,bolted around the leaf spring

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Reliant-Mud-Flaps-Splash-Guards-94831-Pair-/351531597095?hash=item51d8ea7d27:g:0ogAAOSwHjNWCTxz

Very rare,they look good with the lettering painted white

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I like the proper mudflaps that are moulded to the shape of the car. MX5 mk1 comes to mind as they looked good and did an excellent job. Also, the Turbo had factory flaps and they were a 'proper job' as well.

I've got a pair of those 'B' moulded rear mudflaps in my shed, one fell off complete with a bit of rust that used to be lower wing! Dreadful mud trap - my body man mate refused to put them back on after fettling the wings.

[oldcars]

Reliant themselves have been selling nos flaps for a while(must have cracked open another container)

the brackets are just a 3 in piece of angle with two holes in,and a flat plate with two holes in,bolted around the leaf spring

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Reliant-Mud-Flaps-Splash-Guards-94831-Pair-/351531597095?hash=item51d8ea7d27:g:0ogAAOSwHjNWCTxz

Very rare,they look good with the lettering painted white

Cheers Dan. Saw these, wonder if the brackets are inlcuded? Need to ask them after christmas.

[2MB]

My 190 had a full set of factory ones when I bought it, with rusted in screws. Driving round the Highlands this summer made 3 of them disappear with ease

[plasticvandan]

I dont think they are shuma,very easy to make though!

[cros]

This morning I drove to the local town where I payed an attractive woman to inflict considerable pain on me. On the way back from the dentist I took a picture of the state farmers leave the road in-  quite a bit of grass in the mixture today to help bind it onto the bodywork.

This is a normal council road and part of the joy of living in this part of the countryside. If I was to hose it off after each drive down the 2 mile stretch I'd soon be living on a fucking mountain. Wheel arches lined with bits of plastic trailer mudguards and more of the stuff that I did the landrover with.

 

[Taff]

I think that mudflaps are the product of Satan and that the owners of cars who have them should be kicked to death in public by a man wearing steelies for crimes against wheel arch paint

 

 

Wankers

[Angrydicky]

I do like a nice pair of flaps.

 

The Maestro originally had these kind.

 

 

Although after 30 years the rubber was brittle and cracking, and the metal of the wheelarches had really suffered where they were bolted on. One of them actually fell off, complete with the remains of the wheelarch! After the restoration/respray, I ran it around for a bit without mudflaps before I found these in a local car accessory shop.

 

1985 Austin Maestro 1.3 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Just had to knock up a couple of small brackets to get the rear ones sitting properly. I really like them!

[rml2345]

Another satanic devil mudflap worshipper here, I think they're great. Mainly because of the year round mix of farm, tipper and construction traffic round here that leave globs of mud on most roads that leave the car constantly mockitt.

That and I reckon they look good.

[mat_the_cat]

I think universal ones almost always look naff, but some fitted ones look OK...

 

 

We too live out in the country - a short way up a dirt track, which only dries out after a week of dry weather. So cars get filthy all year round, and flaps help a bit. Although I hose out the arches after every salty journey if it's a car I care about!

[oldcars]

I think universal ones almost always look naff, but some fitted ones look OK...

 

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We too live out in the country - a short way up a dirt track, which only dries out after a week of dry weather. So cars get filthy all year round, and flaps help a bit. Although I hose out the arches after every salty journey if it's a car I care about!

Glad its not just me that does the arches a lot in winter.

[Squire_Dawson]

I must be one of the few who prefers mudflaps. On some cars, the aesthetics are improved by them.

[FakeConcern]

Most of my cars have had mudflaps, they do nothing to stop them getting dirty though! I just looked through various pics of my cars with mudflaps & toyed with posting them but in the end I CBA.

[sierraman]

What about the big fuck off flaps you used to get on the back of coaches?

[richardmorris]

The Mercedes needed them as the road rash was terrible.

[explosive-cabbage]

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. 

 

I saw a Skoda Yeti on the M62 recently with one of these on, but it was on a seperate full width bracket across the back of the car like a motorcycle carrier, rear and level with the rear bumper. It was a completely plain black crossmember bracket made of box section steel with no other apparent reason other than to suspend this mudguard from. Weird.

[vulgalour]

I'm tempted to put mudguards on the Princess when it's sorted, a lot of crap gets thrown up at the rear lower wings and it rots them out from the outside.  It also kicks up a LOT of spray rendering the rear lights almost invisible which is not great on an older car.  The Rover has mudflaps and I'm grateful for them so I don't get the rooster tails up the sides of the car.  My old Mk2 Polo had no flaps and even living in the city it was a constant battle keeping the thing clean down the sides.

 

Arch liners are another thing that can be good or terrible.  Without them, the Princess suffers quite a bit from a lot of muck getting stuck in the nose end of the wing that's tricky to hose out properly.  With them a lot of dirt gets stuck in the trailing edge of the wing, rotting out the sill, A pillar and outer wing if you don't know about it.  Frankly, whatever you do with a Princess you can't win.

[cros]

I suppose reliant had plenty of flaps left over as they're not as necessary as on a tin car. I'm wondering what the hell else there is to say on the subject really.

[PhillipM]

Commercial vehicle spares place - 4 x Supersingle covers - trim to fit. Mudguards, arch liners and inner panel all in one. Job jobbed.

[rml2345]

What about the big fuck off flaps you used to get on the back of coaches?

Not seen one on a coach for years but they looked good. There are one or two Scotoshite members considering one on a car

[spike60]

Which is the way to go with this? Recently bought with 3 MB flaps, do I replace the missing passenger side front or skip the other 3? I quite like them though to no one's surprise Merc mudflaps aren't cheap.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo Cros, admittedly your land rover flaps look like a proper job, nice work.