21-12-2011, 04:38pm
.... or baggy flaps as I've been calling them.
I picked my car up last week and as compensation for the delays my dealer had agreed to supply and fit a set of mud flaps f.o.c. At the time I didn't really see anything wrong with them and probably got caught up with the excitement of it all, however a couple of days in and I noticed that there was a gap between the car bodywork and the mud flaps (photographs here http://s1176.photobucket.com/albums/x329...d%20Flaps/ ).
The mrs had to call in to the dealers on Monday with some paperwork that they'd forgotten to get, so while she was there she asked if someone could have a look at them. To give them their due, they took the car straight into the workshop and adjusted them, but when the car came back out it didn't look much better. The car was then taken back into the workshop again, and on it's return, while certainly not perfect, it's a hell of an improvement on the way it was.
The people in the workshop have said that it's a design fault with the mud flaps and that they have to stretch them to get them to fit the bodywork. Because of this they then pull away from the sticky tape and a gap opens up. They've actually put more tape and extra fixings (more holes drilled!) to get mine to fit reasonably well, but I just wanted to make people aware of it and to ask those that have cars with them if they have any problems. If not, are we just being being told about this 'design problem' to cover up a poor job? (the dealer actually stated that their showroom car which had them fitted at the factory also had the baggy flap syndrome).
I picked my car up last week and as compensation for the delays my dealer had agreed to supply and fit a set of mud flaps f.o.c. At the time I didn't really see anything wrong with them and probably got caught up with the excitement of it all, however a couple of days in and I noticed that there was a gap between the car bodywork and the mud flaps (photographs here http://s1176.photobucket.com/albums/x329...d%20Flaps/ ).
The mrs had to call in to the dealers on Monday with some paperwork that they'd forgotten to get, so while she was there she asked if someone could have a look at them. To give them their due, they took the car straight into the workshop and adjusted them, but when the car came back out it didn't look much better. The car was then taken back into the workshop again, and on it's return, while certainly not perfect, it's a hell of an improvement on the way it was.
The people in the workshop have said that it's a design fault with the mud flaps and that they have to stretch them to get them to fit the bodywork. Because of this they then pull away from the sticky tape and a gap opens up. They've actually put more tape and extra fixings (more holes drilled!) to get mine to fit reasonably well, but I just wanted to make people aware of it and to ask those that have cars with them if they have any problems. If not, are we just being being told about this 'design problem' to cover up a poor job? (the dealer actually stated that their showroom car which had them fitted at the factory also had the baggy flap syndrome).