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Author Topic: Do cars look better with mudflaps or without?  (Read 2858 times)

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Re: Do cars look better with mudflaps or without?
« Reply #15 on: 08 March 2010, 08:14:47 »
I have them, hers doesnt, I prefer them....and like others to have them, keeps spray down for all.
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Re: Do cars look better with mudflaps or without?
« Reply #16 on: 08 March 2010, 15:28:36 »
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Mudflaps are not there to look pretty - if you have ever followed anyone in wet weather without mudflaps you'll know what i mean...  >:(

imho they should be fitted by law, and high level stoplights .. :y

 
They are law  :y
Only after 1997

I have mudflaps on my 3.2 and the front ones scrape along the road when I corner around roundabouts and speed bumps :(


Ironic really, since the police used to stop all the cars that fitted high level brake lights in there cars in 70s and 80s.

People where fined for having them, now it is the law to have them
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Re: Do cars look better with mudflaps or without?
« Reply #17 on: 08 March 2010, 15:43:32 »
I've often fitted them to cars that haven't had them already.  In "the olden days" I used to bolt reflectors to them as well.  A bit anoraky now in retrospect.

Mudflaps can cause the spray to bounce out sideways which can make overtakes a nightmare.  Reminds me of some Dunlop tyres that came out in the 70s(?) Aquajet I think they called them.  They were fitted to a lot of XJ6s and you couldn't see the car for spray.  The water never got as far as the mudflaps!
[edit]Crikey!  Just Googled Aquajet and you can still get them - AND it was the 60s!!![/edit]
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Re: Do cars look better with mudflaps or without?
« Reply #18 on: 08 March 2010, 16:16:47 »
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I've often fitted them to cars that haven't had them already.  In "the olden days" I used to bolt reflectors to them as well.  A bit anoraky now in retrospect.

Mudflaps can cause the spray to bounce out sideways which can make overtakes a nightmare.  Reminds me of some Dunlop tyres that came out in the 70s(?) Aquajet I think they called them.  They were fitted to a lot of XJ6s and you couldn't see the car for spray.  The water never got as far as the mudflaps!
[edit]Crikey!  Just Googled Aquajet and you can still get them - AND it was the 60s!!![/edit]

Yes i remember fitting those Dunlop Aquajets, especially on Jags, they were very expensive but seem to have remained popular  8-)

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