lets get some iX mudflaps made. Who can help?

[D.Martijn]

We have a CMM measuring machine at work. It would be possible to trace an existing one and reverse engineer it although it will take a few hours to measure and draw these in CAD.

[The Dark Side of Will]

I've never seen a set in the flesh... is it really that hard just to model them?

[bradnic]

if you have more money than sense.. here's a set in package never used

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=425819

[bradnic]

If you can get the scans I can clean them up. Plenty of places will make rubber molds from them

[nando]

Well ours aren't "part" scanners anyway. They're meant for scanning construction sites. You could scan parts too (pin it to a wall, crank up the resolution), but somebody would have to stitch the front and backsides together, and then generate a printable model or mold from that.

I just don't see them letting me borrow a $25,000 piece of equipment to work on some car stuff, lol. I can ask, but maybe somebody else has access to one..

[bradnic]

Shame you couldn’t just release the scan file to the public domain.. not very expensive to 3D print a mold for it good for 200 parts

[nando]

We have Faro scanners but I really doubt I could use one for something like this, considering how much money we make off them..

[bradnic]

there's a cool Jay Leno's garage episode about Faro 3D parts scanners. Need to find a repro parts company that has one of those.

https://www.faro.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3SVTBrKyZk

If we ever get this done, here are the BMW E30 IX mud flap installation instructions

[Kershaw]

Who has a set and who has access to a 3D scanner?

[stonea]

At this point I think it's more likely for BMW to start reproducing them again rather than finding someone to do it. And I don't think BMW would ever do that.

[bradnic]

There’s a reason we have over 300 posts on this thread.. many folks have posted similar comments over the years, and yet here we are. It’s certainly more likely today given available tech, but don’t hold your breath

[rwtags]

I know what your saying, but you dont need engineers for this, any vacuum forming company should be able to make a mold to use, and heat some ABS up and vacuum form it to a the mold, so light dremel work would have them looking decent as well.

This is kind of crazy to me with the level of 3D printing and rapid prototyping methods we should be able to at least come up with a half assed prototype [emoji1745]waffles[emoji3603] when I win the lottery I am hiring a team of engineers to get this done


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[ndfspd67]

Me waiting for this to happen:

This is kind of crazy to me with the level of 3D printing and rapid prototyping methods we should be able to at least come up with a half assed prototype [emoji1745]waffles[emoji3603] when I win the lottery I am hiring a team of engineers to get this done


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[Jmacchi]

Well that sucks..I have one right front so I was able to see how good they would look. Was ready to pay

[EyExR]

Well, after pulling the original mudflaps off my iX and breaking half the rusty hardware in the process, mailing them to Garagistic with the promise of two sets of reproductions in return, and waiting a few months... Out of the blue, I just received the original mudflaps back with a note. It says they can't do it. They're too busy this holiday season, they're moving shops, it's a bigger project than they anticipated, something like that... Sounds like it's a no go.

I had a feeling they were just leading us on...:rippedoff: