Thread: Mudflaps or rock tamers

I ended up getting some of the above mudflaps from china off eBay. About 80 bucks. They came in a week and fitted like a glove. No probs at all. I still can't tell if they are genuine or not?

I am going to see how these go and make a decision on the stone stomper as the next step for long dirt road trips. This isn't an immediate requirement yet. Have untill September for this decision. The way I think stone stomper vs. rear window breaking = stone stomper.

I had a look making some mud flaps, thanks for the advice, but ended up not going down this track as the price was not much different to the eBay price for all the parts. Plus it would have required effort on behalf to do this, i took the easy option first.

Hi All,

As requested some pics of the mud flaps I made up out of super hard plastic stuff. No idea what it is called but as used by the rally/comp cars. I made a template up first out of some more flexible plastic I could cut with scissors. I used the template to align mark the mountng holes out on the flap. On the rear I used the two holes n the inner liner and added another screw through the bottom edge of the bumper at the lowest point as it appeared to need some more support I used M6 nuts and bolts with washers on the rear. The fronts use the standard screws in the inner liner. Note the shape of the mud flaps the rears are as wide as I felt comfortable going and as low as I felt was necessary I used a stick from rear edge of tyre to rear bumber such that the flap did not intrude into the departure angle you could go lower. I also trimmed out a shape to have adequate clearance from the exhaust. For the fronts I had to trim around bumps in the inner liner to ensure I achievied a flush fit with the inner liner. The fronts are mainly there to stop mud being thown up on the door handles! and the lower edge of door. I have been in real off road situatons with them on and they scraped but did not appear to sustain any damage. I am yet to test them reversing n sand or mud as they are not as long as they could be I am semi confident that whilst they will touch the tyre they are not actually reaching under the tyre enough to get ripped off.