Mud Flaps

[mkviken]

my car has about 160 miles on the clock is and is scruffy up the sides already despite it being bone dry.

i use my car as a toy and spend most my driving in the country B roads. as others have said if it live in the town all the time then maybe they're not needed but the road surface on british B roads is a joke.

my last car was peppered down the side skirts and really bad over the rear arch due to stones from the front wheels.



i agree the rear ones do look pretty ugly but the front ones are very discreet IMO and match the side skirt well.

I will be fitting a set of front ones sooner or later as i bought this car as a long term keeper and don't want the lower sides wrecked with tar and stone chips.

[Keithuk]

Well it will look even odder if you only fit front mud flaps.

[am1w]

At least cars with rear mud flaps possibly don't chuck out stones onto the cars behind. How considerate.

[The Doc]

Front flaps are easy to fit, I did mine in 10 mins flat, they help keep the sides of your car and door mirrors cleaner for longer, a must if you do rural driving IMHO 

[mkviken]

Well it will look even odder if you only fit front mud flaps.

I've seen a few mk6 golfs with just the front ones fitted and they're barely noticeable at all and like i said before match the black plastic side skirts anyway.

i would say fitting front only is far more common than fitting a full set

[Exonian]

It depends a fair bit on the colour of the car really. On my battleship grey car you can hardly see the front flaps, on other colours they may look more obvious.

The first ever mk6 GTI I took out for a test drive had flaps all round. The fronts looked fine but the rears looked like Dumbo. The rears probably look okay with wide, low offset alloys to balance the lines out a bit, but on the 17'' Monza equipped car that I tested two and a bit years ago they just didn't look right and took away the sportiness of the car.

[mkviken]

yep i agree - i think the rear ones look a bit clumsy.

there was a red GTD and a white white GTI demo at VW garage i bought mine with front mud flaps on only and i didn't think they spoiled the look of the car at all.


i bought some on ebay last night anyway for £36 or something

[joey]

£65 all in, from dealer. front and rear.

[jmspear]

the other big benefit is they stop all the tar being chucked up the side of the car over the summer, does my head in getting it off my lovely shiny red paintwork. They don't look bad on my red GTD, IMHO opinion but the previous owner had them fitted so they were a no cost option to me, they also had headlight protectors fitted, now they are very UGLY and will come off as soon as I can be bothered to get the front bumper off....

[mkviken]

i fitted mine on wed night. pretty straight forward.

IMO they don't look out of place at all