Melting Mudflap.

Scott,

I did consider a modified bracket (see post about Kahn conversion), but unfortunately the exhaust moves a LOT on its rubber hanger and as it sticks past the cross member it creates an almighty "clank" when ever it hits the bracket (which it does with every bump or dip in the road). In short, an extended bracket is not the option without modifying the exhaust.

The back end of the exhaust scrapes/ touches quite a bit when a 90 climbs out of a hole and an extended bracket will just turn into a plough (even the standard bracket gets a scrape now and then) which has potential to grab the "lip" of the exhaust and rip the lot off.

Like I said, what ever works and I've done a couple thousand km with the new mod now including some off roading and I've got no flap melt, bracket damage or torn off mud flap as you regularly get with 90's. The mod might look silly to some, but it's cured an encountered problem which works fine for me.

Cheers,

Lou

This is what mine looks like, I've noticed some are closer to the tyre



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oki, so long as you have a solution that works! :) As for tearing and bending stuff in that position climbing out of holes/Offroading I think I would be swapping the 90 for a quad if it was that bad! I cannot ever recall damaging stuff like that in the SWB 2A :o But then my idea of offroading may differ, My plan is ALWAYS to drive it home! not the old "lets see how much stuff I can bend going up there!" :D
Cheers Scott

Scott,

As I hope you can see from my car, not damaging it is very much my first priority. The easiest option by far would have been to just remove them as is the option by many 90 Puma owners, but I believe they have a function and hence I made a plan to address it. It is remarkably easy to bend a 90's mud flap bracket, even by gently climbing down a steepish step. I can assure you that I don't approve of or condone driving like a lunatic and damaging your car in the process.

The whole discussion started around the fact that due to the cut out, the OME flap is required to be very stiff and in the slip stream of the car it lifts up just enough to sit in front of the hot exhaust gas as you can already see by the beginnings of soot deposits on the posted pictures.

There is most probably a number of options, but this is the one that works for me and I suppose the purpose of a forum is to share ideas...

Cheers,

Lou

is it possible/legal to just have the tailpipe pointed out to the side?

ADR's require the exhaust to exit to the rear now. Once upon a time it was oki to exit to the rear of the rearmost door or to the drivers side, away from pedestrians.But now it is the car behind who cops it! :D

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Originally Posted by schuy1

ADR's require the exhaust to exit to the rear now. Once upon a time it was oki to exit to the rear of the rearmost door or to the drivers side, away from pedestrians.But now it is the car behind who cops it! :D

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Fair enough i guess..... I can see the reasoning in that. sort of.

Melting mudflap?...So, who's been affected by this issue?
We've now had our 90 for nearly a year & have done a bit over 10Ks.
Looking at the rear left mudflap, I'm starting to see a bit of "warping", heat damage around the mudflap cut out, obviously caused by the exit of hot exhaust gases.
I was thinking that some heat resistant tape placed around the mudflap cut out would fix this issue. I haven't taken any action yet & wouldn't have a clue what tape to use.
In terms of other postings on this issue, I was expecting the problem, as most of our driving is cruising around 80-100KPH on country roads.
Any other developments/fixes on this issue during the last 12 ms or so?
A resurrected thread/issue, but now affecting me, & who else?
Pickles.

Hi Pickles,

I've still got the same mod as per the earlier post, although I'm om my third mudflap due to unrelated issues... :D

I buy the cheap britpart 300Tdi mudflaps from the UK as they are much softer and flexible than the local Td5 and Tdci ones. That does however necessitate the hole cut out.

Last time I bought 4 left and 2 right hand ones and they worked out less than $10.00 each delivered. They don't melt at all, but it might be due to the large amount of movement.

At risk of being criticized again for being "rough" with my car, I must admit that somewhere along the line I must have hooked the silencer box on something because the alignment of my exhaust is a bit screwey (very close to the transfer case)...

Maybe time for a performance exhaust (stainless steel) from one of the UK companies (at least the front piece) and a mod to bring the exhaust out next to the LHS towbar mount completely away from the wheel.

Cheers,

Lou

I've done 35000km and only melted 1 flap. Did it when I was towing. I think you'll find it only happens when doing high speed 110km/hr and or towing heavy stuff at highway speeds. I've not towed much heavy stuff of late so haven't melted more.

If you take it to the dealer they will put another on, they know about the problem and don't even hesitate.

As for dragging the rear end in and out of holes... I have dragged my tow ball a few times but never caught anything else; well not that I know of anyway. The last time was on a well traversed track. What I want to know is: if a D90 drags it's tow ball on the way through how was the track made and who uses it?????