mudflaps for my gti

[monkeyhanger]

How about making some from MDF ?

Isn't that what you see on Ford's and Vauxhall's.

On Subarus and Focus STs you quite often see those mudflaps that look to have been fashioned from very thick rubble sacks - bright blue usually.

[I wanted a GTi]

Do the OEM mudflaps actually help to keep the car clean? One thing I have noticed is that the Golf seems to get dirty much quicker than my CC

[SRGTD]

Do the OEM mudflaps actually help to keep the car clean? One thing I have noticed is that the Golf seems to get dirty much quicker than my CC

They may stop mud being sprayed up on the sills and lower doors and help reduce the risk of stone chips on the lower side panels, but IMO they won't do too much to stop the car getting dirty from general road spray from wet roads or salted / gritted roads..

I had mud flaps on my mk6 GTD and at this time of year, it got covered in just as much road salt as my current car (Polo GTI) with no mud flaps (VW don't make mud flaps for the Polo GTI anyway, so I couldn't have them even if I wanted them, but not really missing them).

Because of the shape of modern hatchback cars, rear mud flaps will do little, if anything, to stop the rear of the car getting dirty. Movement of any Golf-shaped hatchback car through the air will still result in road spray getting sucked back onto the tailgate and rear window, whether it has mud flaps fitted or not.

[itavaltalainen]

They help a little against spray, but the flat back sucks up air from road.... i.e. your own spray.

Front flaps help to keep sills a bit cleaner thou, back ones are kinder to cars following you

[dubber36]

I find that the front ones do a very good job of stopping tar spots, but the rears do nothing. Fitting fronts only looks a bit odd tho'.

[corgi]

On Subarus and Focus STs you quite often see those mudflaps that look to have been fashioned from very thick rubble sacks - bright blue usually.

That type are required for rally cars... they look a bit silly on road cars, imo...

[dubber36]

Except that the ones on rally cars are simply cable tied to metal brackets that are attached to the outer panels on the car. They also have straps that stop them flapping forwards and going under the wheels, getting ripped of when the car reverses.

[I wanted a GTi]

I'm going to get some fitted because they look okay and not too big. I was hoping that they would help keep the back a little cleaner because the VW badge gets very dirty and having to touch it to open the boot the dirt gets on your hands.

[JoeGTI]

I think they look wrong and spoil the lines of the car, particularly the rears. All for very little real benefit as already mentioned...

[fredgroves]

Its the squared off rear that causes a vortex in airflow over the car that drags everything off of the road.

You can see it clearly when its a cold morning - watch the water vapour cloud from the exhaust in the rear view mirror and you'll see it dragged up and swirl round.

Mud flaps aren't going to make bugger all difference.