Thread: Melting Mudflap.

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 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!"
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!

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!

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...

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