Technical Mud Flaps

[stephenriley]

Put my front and rear mud flaps on tonight. I purchased them from a local Peugeot dealer as fiat don't seem to list them. I wasn't keen on using the pop rivets supplied so I used rivnuts and stainless button flange headed allen screws. They look good and hopefully will offer a bit of protection to the bodywork.

 

[Red Van Man]

Put my front and rear mud flaps on tonight. I purchased them from a local Peugeot dealer as fiat don't seem to list them. I wasn't keen on using the pop rivets supplied so I used rivnuts and stainless button flange headed allen screws. They look good and hopefully will offer a bit of protection to the bodywork.

Yeah quite right - I queued for a long time at a Spares/Service Desk in the local all-garages-together place (across the way from the Fiat showroom) and the guy took my request, went out, came back with a printed sheet of accessories, went back into the office, spent ages then came back and said Fiat don't list mudflaps - full stop. Useless.
It's an accessory at the time of purchase on their spec sheet but I didn't get them as I'd ordered 'too many accessories'.
I'll be going into Peugeot next week for some. Did you pay about £29.99 per pair? Are they gold plated?

R-V-M

 

[stephenriley]

To be honest I think they have raided the existing parts bin as the sets are packaged as front and rear but when you look at them they are all identical. You have to use the enclosed template to drill new mounting holes. They look fine when fitted i.e. not too big and cumbersome. I didn't really like drilling holes into the wheel arch liner; when I last fitted a set of original flaps to my mondeo I'm sure I just took some screws out of the liner popped the flaps on and put the screws back. I had to take the rears off again today as I fitted reversing sensors; bit scary drilling holes in my rear bumper but there were faint circles on the inside of the moulding so positioning them was easy.

 

[Red Van Man]

To be honest I think they have raided the existing parts bin as the sets are packaged as front and rear but when you look at them they are all identical. You have to use the enclosed template to drill new mounting holes. They look fine when fitted i.e. not too big and cumbersome. I didn't really like drilling holes into the wheel arch liner; when I last fitted a set of original flaps to my mondeo I'm sure I just took some screws out of the liner popped the flaps on and put the screws back. I had to take the rears off again today as I fitted reversing sensors; bit scary drilling holes in my rear bumper but there were faint circles on the inside of the moulding so positioning them was easy.

I put mudflaps on my RAV4 and they came with longer screws to replace existing ones like you say. The pairs for front and rear do look the same.

Did you buy Fiat sensors? When you mention the cut-outs had you removed the bumper by that stage?

I found a wiring loom for the reversing sensors but the individual correct sensors (for the Fiat) are £19.95 EACH. I think you can get a whole kit for about that..(half that in fact).

R-V-M
PS - any photos?

 

[stephenriley]

I bought a kit off fleabay for £20. I removed the bumper and drilled a small centre hole from the inside at the centre of the feint circles that indicated the sensor positions. I then used the hole saw provided with the kit to drill from the outside. It looks really neat. The colour coded sensors were not the right shade of orange so I had an aerosol made up and sprayed them.