Hi

I've wanted to see how my FF looks without mud flaps, so this morning I set about removing them. I was hoping the holes drilled through the side of the wing trim would be small, and as my car is black I planned to fill the holes with some black silicone.

I only got to taking the offside front mud flap off, and discovered the the holes were huge, and in addition the mud flaps had worn the paint a little where they made contact with the wing.

Here's a photo incase anyone else is considering doing the same.

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Looks like you have the Chrome finish paint job in the pic justin! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

thats weird cos the ones i have on mine are fixed by screws in the wheel arch and from underneath... ... - .- -.




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The proper way to fit them is to drill through the wing

I've had range rovers with mudflaps and without and much prefer them with mudflaps combined with running boards

that might be the proper way but mine havnt fallen off yet .  ... - .- -.




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Your lucky , the chimp that installed the flaps on mine had 2 or 3 goes at trying to get the hole in the right place.

I removed mine as they would have been ripped off when off roading, the holes now have some nice stainless steel washers and torx head bolts in them. 

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probably lucky cos i done the job myself..but good point re off roading , never thought about having to remove the mudflaps. ... - .- -.




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I had the LR mudflaps on my Freelander 1, I did some quite hefty offroading in that wee car and was always amazed that in 3 years I never lost one of those hard palstic mudflaps, it took about 3 outings in my Defender to loose the nice flexy rubber ones from that though! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

Tim in Scotland wrote:

Looks like you have the Chrome finish paint job in the pic justin!

@Tim - I originally took that as a compliment about my shiny black paint, but having seen the following photo on another thread, I would like to state that the car is definitely black

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scarey wrote:

probably lucky cos i done the job myself..but good point re off roading , never thought about having to remove the mudflaps.

it was a while back now, but as far as i can remember i just put the mudflap up against the arch and located the holes and screwed in ...i've taken mine off now and they've left no holes like justins probably cos mine are aftermarket ones ..i think there were 2 screws along the inner edge and 1 underneath...they were really dead easy to fit ... ... - .- -.




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I got my mudguards and flaps removed, I much prefer the look without!

Here's the before photo:

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any holes left david? ... - .- -.




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scarey wrote:

any holes left david?

They were doing a wee bit of paint work at the time, so I believe they stuck some chewing gum in the holes and squirted over them!

In all seriousness, Yes, removing running boards and flaps will probably require paintwork a lot of the time. I also removed the (to my eyes) horrible covers over the lights, and this left some holes too! Sort of job that if you're getting some paintwork done anyway isn't too bad, but otherwise would be a right pain!
 Range Rover-less at the moment - Pining!

i dont like those light brackets either..


good tip re the chewing gum though..  ... - .- -.




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