Ya am undecided if like them on or not. I'm not a weekly car washer so hopin flaps may help keep it cleaner longer? Has any member a pic of there car with mud flaps to help me decide. Thanks for all advice.
Here’s one from the used cars section of VW’s website with mud flaps fitted.
https://usedcars.volkswagen.co.uk/en/used-cars/volkswagen/golf/20-tsi-gti-220ps-dsg-5dr-r7b2gg8If you scroll through the pictures of the car, you can see side and rear profile pictures of what a GTI looks like with mud flaps.
I had mud flaps on most of my previous cars but don’t have them on my current car (Polo GTI) because VW don’t make them to fit the Polo GTI. I have to say that I’ve not missed them. My car doesn’t seem to get any dirtier without mud flaps than previous cars did with them, and in nearly 3.5 years of ownership it has virtually no stone chips down the sides of the car or along the sills either, and picks up very few far spots. I also prefer the cleaner lines of a car without mud flaps - that’s just my opinion though.
With the ‘two box’ shape of modern hatch back cars, the airflow over the moving car creates a vacuum effect behind the car that sucks dirt onto the tailgate and rear screen in wet weather. This’ll happen whether mud flaps are fitted or not. Mud flaps might reduce road spray for the benefit of following drivers, but with the Golf’s mud flaps being quite short, they probably don’t reduce road spray that much.