Thread: Given the chance I will shoot the idiot who designed RRC mudflaps

I replaced the mud flaps on my '89 a few years ago, I bought aftermarket (but same design as the originals).
I had the same problem with the rivets on mine, could not work out why they would make it so hard to get them off.
After scratching my head for awhile I ended up drilling the center of the rivets out and they came off quite easily with a whack from a hammer and punch.
I replaced the bolts with galvanised as well, never had a problem with them since.
I was told the rivets were like that as an anti theft measure.
Maybe there was a spate of serial mudflap stealers in the UK?

its not only rangy's ,my 93 disco has the same thing,I put the job in the "gunna"basket

The moral is this..

if it breaks off then it shouldn;t have been there in the first place.. leave it off.

A bit like the ends on the Disco rear bumper.

I agree Vlad, Until I noticed the sandblasting on the tinny

The front ones are the same. The part that the flaps are rivetted to unbolts relativly easily then the rivets are easier to deal with on the workbench. They are still a real PITA though

When I replaced my rear mudflaps I cut the old one off (one side was gone completely already anyway) and then cut upwards with a hacksaw through the remaining rubber to cut the bolt/rivet things in half. The metal was so soft that it must have only taken a few seconds to cut through them. Easy as. I replaced them with really big conveyor belt flaps.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

The moral is this..

if it breaks off then it shouldn;t have been there in the first place.. leave it off.

A bit like the ends on the Disco rear bumper.

No spray control is a defect if factory fitted. I know for a fact that no rear mudflaps is a fail on the NT rego inspection.

The problem is that all you'se guys want the modern RRc mudflaps. All the well made models had the mudflaps held on with nuts and bolts. It's only on the cheapie late ones where the mudflap fixings were designed by accountants.