I'm about to take delivery of my new Kamiq in the next 3 weeks and wondered what most of you have done ? Mudflaps yes or no ? I've always had them fitted on my new cars but just wondered what those without them fitted feel. Do they reduce the amount of muck thrown up on the side of the car or an unnecessary accessory/ expense ?

I used to live in a small village where there was a lot of cow traffic and the usual slurry on the roads so mudflaps were a good idea. I now live in an area devoid (mostly) of farm traffic so don't have mudflaps. I haven't seen any reason to fit them for the past 10 years. It's down to personal choice I suppose.

Looking at images of most of the cars I have owned plus my wife's cars possibly only my last car (KIA...7 years) had mud flaps.

Did buy flaps for my new Kamiq (2 weeks) and will fit them shortly.

I don't remember rust or damage to any car...tend to keep them for a few years....caused by spray/stones etc.

My cars go back 60+ years!

 

The choice is yours....but they certainly won't do any harm!

I always fit them, back and front, the car stays cleaner and I don't put up such a wall of spray for other drivers.

To be honest they should be fitted as standard.

I haven't fitted mud flaps since the 70s when I thought they looked cool 🤔. I would never fit them now unless I regularly drove on very dirty or loose surfaced roads.

Front flaps will prevent some gunk and stones hitting the underside of the sills, but the rear end of the sills will still get hit/dirty.

Rear flaps will prevent little unless they touch the road and if drivers behind me are getting sprayed due to the lack of my mudflaps, then they're driving too close.

Any mud, stones etc that mudflaps prevent from travelling backwards will end up dirtying and maybe damaging your wheel arches, so frankly, I'd rather it stayed on the road.

I don't care much for mudflaps from an aesthetic point of view - they look pants, especially the rear ones - but I accept that they serve a useful purpose.

 

Not for keeping mud and cowsh*t off the car, because a hosepipe will do that.

 

I fitted front flaps to our previous A3 because it was picking up stone chips on the rear alloys. None on the front, just the rears, and on both sides.

 

Rudimentary logic suggested there was a pretty good chance that they came from stones flicked up by the fronts.  It's the same kind of logic that probably explains why you're more likely to get a rear wheel puncture than a front one - a self-tapper lying in wait is picked up by the front tyre and goes point-first into the rear a split-second later.

 

The kosher Audi front mudflaps were pretty discreet - as are the ones now on the Karoq - and since they didn't cost much, it was worth a try.

 

So far so good.

 

It's a balance of function over form I'm happy to settle for.

 

I can do without white worms from alloy nicks I haven't noticed because the car is usually filthy at this time of year, and I've got better things to do with the half hour of daylight we are getting now than spend it freezing my t*ts off with a bucketful of soapy water.

 

 

 

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Edited 14 December, 20214 yr by Phutters

4 minutes ago, Phutters said:

4 minutes ago I said the same thing by mistake.

 

 

 

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Edited 14 December, 20214 yr by Phutters

I've found the mudflaps on my Fabia to be quite reasonable at keeping a wee bit of mud off the sides. They're best from stopping stone chips from sandblasting your sills to some degree, however.

 

We're going back several years here but these pictures are of a MkII Skoda Superb, fitted with OEM front and rear mudflaps. The car was driven for a prolonged period / distance on an unmade gravel road, which had an effect similar to that of a sandblaster on the paintwork.

 

What it might demonstrate is the relative ineffectiveness of the mudflaps at protecting the paint from stone chips, unless protecting an inch of sill and an inch of rear bumper is deemed worthwhile...

 

 

 
 

I had a MkII Superb too (hence my interest), it came supplied with mudflaps and the fronts were tight up against the metal wing. In the 5+ years / 160,000 miles I drove it, the slight movement of the flaps combined with the dirt and grit trapped behind them wore through the paint and introduced some rust, so they're not always a good thing.

 

I have them fitted to my Kodiaq more for aesthetic reasons, I think they enhance the appearance of the car, but also because they don't come into contact with any painted metal surfaces.

 

Edited 17 December, 20214 yr by silver1011

always buy mudflaps for your car They are cheap and a very good thing to have.

Mudflaps: the Marmite of car accessories.

Hi Dman,

These mudflaps are easy to fit,  5mins each corner, no need to remove the wheel.  1 x Torx 25 bit  , (and i THINK  it's a .. ) 1x 5mm drill bit. 

The instructions and the bits come with the kit.

Basically remove screws fit mud flap refit screws

The front does require 1 hole ( each side ) drilled in the plastic inner wheel sleeve, just turn the steering wheel to make room for drill.

there is also underside CLIP to be fitted, remove screw pull the plastic to one side, slide in clip, refit screw.

DON'T tighten any screw until you have positioned the  mudflap  hard against the car, then tighten.

 

regards D

 

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Buy them from Skoda-autoparts in CZech republic. Cheapest place by far

 Hi Dman,     30Dec2021
These mudflaps are easy to fit,  5mins each corner, no need to remove the wheel.  1 x Torx 25 bit  , (and i THINK  it's a .. ) 1x 5mm drill bit.     The instructions,  metal clips,  screws + Plastic clips come with the kit.
Basically remove screws fit mud flap refit screws
The front does require 1 hole ( each side ) drilled in the plastic inner wheel sleeve, just turn the steering wheel to make room for drill.
At the Front,  there is also underside CLIP to be fitted, remove screw ( BLUE ARROW ) pull the plastic to one side, slide in clip &  screw in ( RED ARROW )  and , refit original screw ( BLUE ARROW ) .  See photo
 DON'T tighten any screw until you have positioned the  mudflap  hard against the car, then tighten.
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 rgds D