Hi Guys,
just bought some mudflaps from TLO the instructions for the rear are shocking ,can anyone give me a few tips or better still some pics on what is involved.
Cheerzen
Ian
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15th Jan 2010 6:18 pm
al cope
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front or rear
in fact, its fairly obvious once you get the flaps next to the car. The one thats a bit odd is the extra bracket for the rear ones. Its also easier to put the screws in and out with the wheel off, although it can be done with the wheel in please.
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it should have two blue square things for each side, into which two screws go. One of the blue things pushes into the square hole in the bracket, and up under the wheel arch you'll find a similar square hole into which the other blue thing goes (same on both sides), and you use one of the screws to attach the bracket to the blue thing you've stuck through the hole under the arch, and the the other screw goes through the flap into the bluesquare thing at the other end of the bracket
I'm sure this isnt making sense. recipe for a sponge cake anyone?
If you were closer I'd say bring it round
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15th Jan 2010 8:50 pm
andymck
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This confused me as well.. But when I fitted them without the brackets my mudflaps worked loose wile driving through the snow. I have worked it out now, though it is a bit fiddly; off road height and using a small posi bit jammed in my smallest socket set wrench made it possible for me..
Happy to help or explain more if needed. I am in Weston Super Mare if you are passing I can give you a hand.
Thanks
Andy
16th Jan 2010 1:39 pm
oddboy
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i still havnt fitted mine due to this same problem + the fact its blummin cold outRichard
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16th Jan 2010 3:14 pm
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Look under car behind wheel arch up next to exhaust silencer, you will see a small square hole in the bodywork into which one of the blue clips fit, push one in and home securley. Fir another into the small "L" shaped bracket again there should be a square hole in one end. Now attach the mudflap to the car, it can just be done with suspension in off road hight and either a small right angled screw driver or a 1/4 ratchet with a screw driver bit in a socket. You will see that there are three holes in the mud flap from memory, tow inside the whell arch and one that goes up vertically from underneath, you will need to remove two sequring screwsfrom the wheel arch mud shield, attach the mudflap using the top hole to the inside of the the wheel arch and the vertical one up under the bottom of the mud flap, you will then be left with one hole in the mud flap that is visible from inside the wheel arch. From memory I think there was no hole in the mudshield under the wheel arch to match with the one in the mudflap, drive one of the supplied screws through the mudflap and the mud shield, this screw that has been driven through the mud shield will then be seen looking up under the car at the back of the wheel arch next to the exhaust silencer, this drives into the blue clip in the right angled bracket which in turn lays horizontaly and the other hole in the bracket should line up with the other blue clip you have previuosly fitted in the body work by the exhaust.
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The Mudflaps are now fitted
Yeah it was fiddly trying to get the bracket fitted ,but I got there in the end.
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If anyone needs help,I will try to explain!!!!
Cheers everyone.
Ian
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16th Jan 2010 5:50 pm
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Re: Help fitting my new Mudflaps
Wait til it gets a bit muddy and wet....then you will see just how 'good' they are as 'mud' flaps D4 HSE....Probably, but not quite decided yet.
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16th Jan 2010 6:52 pm
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And don't become disheartened when they split and crack - that's normal Clubs Mantec, Tasmods, LEDS, AT2s on 18s, Maxxis Bighorns on 17s, Remote FBH, BAS. ReMap, BSS., RLD Personalised SWP., Safari Snorkel, Faultmate, Three Musketeers & MUD
16th Jan 2010 7:11 pm
Nigel McBurney
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Hi just fitted rear flaps today on my D4,read the posts before I started as the instructions supplied are pathetic,two of the screws are relatively easy to fit with quarter drive ratchet and posidrive bit,its the third screw thats the problem,screwed the bracket to the bodywork but could not get screw in thro the flap to line up with the plastic block in the bracket,the brackets are handed and stamped left and right as there is a slight offset in the bracket holes. Had a think then tackled it another way removed screw from bracket ,then used the left hand bracket on the rhs ,then screwed the bracket first to the flap and then secured the bracket to the bodywork using a 6mm nut and bolt and a washer,lot easier than struggling with posidrives,first mud flap took 2 hours the second took 15 minutes.I am now a bit slow as I am getting too old to struggle under cars ,now for the front ones,oh cant do that the dealer only had back ones in stock. Any one know the reason for the fibre glass matt behind the wing mud shields,because they did not help when assembling the flaps. Now having been in engineering all my life I just wondered why the brackets fitted better when swapped over,the L and R stamps in the form tools may have got swapped over during tool maintenance ,or it could just be a tolerance build up. the last post mentioned splitting and cracking, I assume they are the same as the D3 ,well I had a D3 for 3 years and had no problems with flaps which were fitted when I bought it,but it never went seriously off road ,just pulling trailers and the occasional muddy show site,I ve got a classic trials bike for the rough stuff.
28th Feb 2010 7:02 pm
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I split my flaps the first time i went off-road
28th Feb 2010 7:04 pm
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hi
i'm on my third set of flaps and just knackered them too
think its time to go down the cut down defender flap route
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28th Feb 2010 7:11 pm
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Ditch the originals and make your self some flexible ones
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28th Feb 2010 8:24 pm
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Adrian, was it you or someone else who previously made available a set of templates for home made flaps using original flap fixings?Clubs Mantec, Tasmods, LEDS, AT2s on 18s, Maxxis Bighorns on 17s, Remote FBH, BAS. ReMap, BSS., RLD Personalised SWP., Safari Snorkel, Faultmate, Three Musketeers & MUD
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and just knackered them too 
