Mud Flaps - Yes or no?
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I may have created a thread on this earlier, but... thinking of doing Mud Flaps all around.. OEM... I have Jet Black, so they would blend nicely.
question is, for those who have done it,
do they fit well?
do they scrape the road?
do they look good?
are they functional?
thanks.
question is, for those who have done it,
do they fit well?
do they scrape the road?
do they look good?
are they functional?
thanks.
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Typically, I would say no, but with a black car, you will not see them. I really object to light color cars with black mud flaps.
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Although I would never get mudflaps for my own car I saw a set on CWOarmy his car and they looked really nice. Not to big and to obvious to see. As far as I know he had no scraping problems.
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do they fit well? Yes, very well.
do they scrape the road? No. Not unless you are doing something VERY Wrong.
do they look good? I think so.
are they functional? Absolutely.
do they scrape the road? No. Not unless you are doing something VERY Wrong.
do they look good? I think so.
are they functional? Absolutely.
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Originally Posted by wassy' date='Oct 26 2004, 10:44 AM
I may have created a thread on this earlier, but... thinking of doing Mud Flaps all around.. OEM...? I have Jet Black, so they would blend nicely.
question is, for those who have done it,
do they fit well? Yowza!
do they scrape the road? Noza!
do they look good? They don't look bad.
are they functional? Positively
thanks. Yer welcome.
question is, for those who have done it,
do they fit well? Yowza!
do they scrape the road? Noza!
do they look good? They don't look bad.
are they functional? Positively
thanks. Yer welcome.
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Yes, this has been done before...
I'll agree that mud flaps are fine -- except on white cars!
There are photos out there somewhere of the flaps on white if you want to see why I feel this way. On black, it's probably a no-brainer.
I'll agree that mud flaps are fine -- except on white cars!
There are photos out there somewhere of the flaps on white if you want to see why I feel this way. On black, it's probably a no-brainer.
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They don't look so bad on the E39. I was referring to the E60. When I look at the following photo, I can't stop looking at the flaps (no offense realtyman):
