While waiting for any news on our build i've been busying myself with options considerations. Might possibly be interested in mud flaps on our White vRS estate to try and keep it that bit tidier week to week. The car we had a test drive in had them on and they seemed quite good quality and not too in your face. One consideration I never thought about was to have just the front ones though but this seems quite popular on the continent (particularly where it snows a lot?). Does anyone know if they have plastic screws and fit well to the wheel arch? My main concern is either rubbing on the wheel arch or a barrier of rot building muck between the mudflap and the paintwork?

Also what peoples preference is front, front/rear or none?

None for me.

But please use the search button as a big thread on this already.

Thanks.

Have them on my hatch and they blend in well and make the back end look lower and less on stilts.

None for me.

But please use the search button as a big thread on this already.

Thanks.

Sorry not too up on forum etiquette. I have reviewed the other threads but couldn't find anything specifically about if it was plastic fixtures on the vRS estate or if they fitted snug to the wheel arch (in users opinions). Sorry if it would have been better to build on one of the existing ones.

Fitted using the exisiting metal wheel arch liner screws, and fit tight up to the liner, no gaps, snug to the body.

Fitted using the exisiting metal wheel arch liner screws, and fit tight up to the liner, no gaps, snug to the body.

Thanks, sounds good. Reckon i'll be going for them. Now to decide on just front or both, guess I need something to keep me busy for the next 3 months!

Thanks, sounds good. Reckon i'll be going for them. Now to decide on just front or both, guess I need something to keep me busy for the next 3 months!

I fitted mudflaps allround my elegance in black magic pearl and looks so much better

im thinking of getting some mud flaps to keep all the crap off the car. Obviously white isnt the most sensible choice lol.

Any one have pics of them on a white fabia? think they might blend in with the black/white colour coding ive gone for

im thinking of getting some mud flaps to keep all the crap off the car. Obviously white isnt the most sensible choice lol.

Any one have pics of them on a white fabia? think they might blend in with the black/white colour coding ive gone for

They will look luvvely on a white car,plus they will keep the crap of the car

im thinking of getting some mud flaps to keep all the crap off the car. Obviously white isnt the most sensible choice lol.

Any one have pics of them on a white fabia? think they might blend in with the black/white colour coding ive gone for

Rear view

Rear view

The rear ones dont look to bad

rob

Just got a quote back from my dealer for mudflaps, front and rear, on my Fabia vRS.

They quoted £42.50 for the mudflaps and nearly £60 for fitting. I think in total it came to something like £97 overall but not sure.

Apparently they're not so straight-forward to fit on the vRS due to the bodywork, they need a bit of shaping to get them to fit so they say.

Being a complete n00b at all things mechanical, I told them to fit them as I usually break things when I have a go, particularly where screws are involved (I always overtighten them and end up stripping threads!) I've got the Skoda vouchers that I can use towards them anyway so it's costing me about £50 odd to have them done.

I'm sure you'll all come screaming and shouting at me for spending such an astronomical sum for a relatively 'simple' job but I didn't know what else to do. Thought I'd have them done as the car's in anyway for the steering to be sorted out and I don't want to be making yet ANOTHER visit if I can help it.

Total bull what they've told you.

Couldn't have been a better fit, 30 minutes work, no wheels taken off on mine either.

Wish I was on £120 an hour :wonder:

Total bull what they've told you.

Couldn't have been a better fit, 30 minutes work, no wheels taken off on mine either.

Well I know the Octavia vRS mudflaps were a pain to fit on the rear, that much is true, the front ones were straight-forward. I can only believe what they tell me based on previous experience.

I would just buy the mudflaps and either fit them myself (no way) or get another garage to fit them. Trouble is another garage would have to make it worth their while to fit them and I wonder what the labour cost would be?

Has anyone else fitted mudflaps to their Fabia vRS themselves and how easy was it? (Sorry marcusfordus, I'm not saying I don't believe it's that easy, I'd just like other opinions?)

Also is this the going rate for such a job at the dealer? I only spoke to them not half an hour ago so I could still ring and tell them to supply only but as I say, I don't know where I'd take the car to get them fitted.

Wish I was on £120 an hour :wonder:

BMW are even worse, especially BMW Motorrad! I had an oil cooler grille fitted to my bike last year at a cost of about £100 - £60 of which was the part cost. It did involve part-dismantling the beak to fit the grille though and not a job I would have dreamt of attempting so I'd rather pay someone who knows what they're doing (and if they screw up it's not my fault!)

Edited 8 February, 201115 yr by scottpcs

Just got a quote back from my dealer for mudflaps, front and rear, on my Fabia vRS.

They quoted £42.50 for the mudflaps and nearly £60 for fitting. I think in total it came to something like £97 overall but not sure.

Apparently they're not so straight-forward to fit on the vRS due to the bodywork, they need a bit of shaping to get them to fit so they say.

Being a complete n00b at all things mechanical, I told them to fit them as I usually break things when I have a go, particularly where screws are involved (I always overtighten them and end up stripping threads!) I've got the Skoda vouchers that I can use towards them anyway so it's costing me about £50 odd to have them done.

I'm sure you'll all come screaming and shouting at me for spending such an astronomical sum for a relatively 'simple' job but I didn't know what else to do. Thought I'd have them done as the car's in anyway for the steering to be sorted out and I don't want to be making yet ANOTHER visit if I can help it.

What you just spent thousands of pounds and did'nt throw them in ,I told my stealer that I wanted them and fitted for free as I was spending a bloody fortune with them, I bought 2 fabias the elegance crtdi and a 1.4 tdi they fitted both front and back,fabric mats and side protection strips on the 1.4tdi plus door sills cover, black in the 1.4tdi and chromed in the cr I did'nt get all of it free but most of it and free fitting I can't understand some stealers ripping customers off like this, bad,bad bad customer service the mudflaps are easy to fit you can buy the full set on ebay proper ones for £30 quid or so

The cost of the mudflaps I can deal with it's the cost of fitting them that flattened me!

It's something I always have on my cars but for some reason I forgot them on this one.

Their service department is shocking and I'm going to contact Angus Keith who's one of the partners in this particular franchise as it's been one thing after another. Sales are great but service is awful. As a long standing customer of theirs I'd have thought they'd do better than this.

My car is STILL at their garage due to a steering fault but they can't find a solution, even though they acknowledge the problem. Plus they've ordered parts that are apparently on back order so the car will have to come back in for those.

Not quite sure what approach to take with the garage about the labour costs as I've told them to fit the mudflaps while it's there. Doesn't help that the service manager I normally deal with is on sick leave at the moment.

Honestly, I don't know why I keep going back to them I really don't.

When I ordered my elegance estate 1.2 TSI DSG (still waiting for), I managed to get mudflaps,rubber mats (for winter use), bootliner, underseat storage and a spare wheel thrown in, you just got to keep at them

I did get the floormats thrown in along with the electric rear windows but that all disappeared when the VAT free offer came around (I ordered in November.)

Doesn't help my case with these mudflaps though!

I have a fabia 1.2 tsi (2012) with mudflaps.. only drived 2100km with my new car..

The front mudflaps seams to get some dirt inside between the flaps and the metal (sand and small rocks).

Woundering if I shuld take them off, clean it, then use some transparent silicone where the contacts are and fit/screw them on again?

Anyone have the same problem?

My neighbour have a octavia with mudlflaps and he have got problems becouse of them (he have got rust where the dirt is).

It`s easy to install.

+1

Very easy indeed