The "Everything Mud Flap" and then some thread

[jeffnhiscars]

Like you, I too once thought mud flaps were unicorns, but now that I have returned from "the other side" and due to popular demand, I'm here to tell my story.

Those who know me know that besides liking everything e30 I also like new and shiny. One day, just for shits and giggles I asked my friendly dealer parts guy order me a pair of cabrio mud flaps using PNs that we tracked down. It took 3 months but eventually he got me a set of F & R flaps.

Sadly, the fronts didn't fit the cabrio and I now believe they were for a late car since they didn't fit my early coupe or sedan either. What I did get which are unique to the cabrio was PN 72-60-1-953-292.

Evidence


Proof. Note the uniquely cabrio contour.

[Das Delfin]

Motion to move this to the newfound cabrio section!

[jeffnhiscars]

Now this is great and I'm excited except I don't have to tell you how dumb front mud flaps look without rears. I mean would you have rear head rests and not fronts ?

As luck would have it, some months later a forum member from whom I was buying other parts said he had some rears without hardware so we rolled them in to the deal.
They weren't in the best of shape but beggars can't be choosers...and we are talking unicorn DNA.

[jeffnhiscars]

Motion to move this to the newfound cabrio section!

Before any one seconds that motion this is not exclusively cabrio material.

Patience Padowan

[jeffnhiscars]

Note that right rear flap is missing an ear....obviously from a unicorn fight...but we loves us all our unicorns

[jeffnhiscars]

It's known lore that you cannot buy hardware let alone flaps, but having built wooden boats, made contoured steel fuel tanks to fit in them and having my first engine swap being a Porsche 1500N in to a 23 window VW Van Dlx (another unicorn story) I decided to just fabricate hardware.

The bitch was that I sold off the ill fitting rears and since it never occurred to me when I had them that the hardware mattered, I really had no idea what it all looked like ,let alone now to install it.

Fortunately, I stumbled on factory installation instructions so at least had diagrams as well as priceless instructions...in German. The good news was that they came with a cabrio supplement in English.

I did scan these and if anyone can tell me how to post a tiff or PDF I'll be glad to do so.

[jeffnhiscars]

As luck would have it, I came across a full set of NIB flaps for sale in of all places....here...in R3V. I hear you saying "oh lord why not me ?"... But you should be saying ohlaud.

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=360338

Thanks again Josh. Brass ring for me :)

The fronts are for an early hardtop and the rears are early anything so they are for the cabrio. this was right around the time Alice came along so the new fronts were hers only now she's in the same position as the cabrio was before...fronts and rears w no hardware.

Does it ever end lol

[jeffnhiscars]

Like any good e30 addict (or whore if you prefer) I keep an eye on CL wherever I go and as luck would have it, I saw an ad for a set of used mudflaps WITH hardware, which is of course all I cared about...unicorn hardware !!

The guy was about an hour away and since I was traveling on business I really didn't have any free time. I left it in the air with the guy when he emails me that his friend is meeting him than heading back up my way and could drop the flaps off. SOLD !!

Now I have more flaps then axles and enough hardware to go around. Brass ring indeed.
They weren't new but were quite decent and the hardware was only missing a couple of nuts and bolts which I got from Ace (more on hardware later).

Time for some mud flap love.

[straight6pwr]

you live in north carolina, wtf do you need mudflaps for??

[TobyB]

All the gawdawful muddy dirt roads that y'all have...

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[jeffnhiscars]

you live in north carolina, wtf do you need mudflaps for??

I have them...cause I can :)

I'll just call them rain flaps from now on. Besides..we do have mud here. I saw some the other day. It was awful

Do people in Wisconsin have AC or 2WD ?

[dnguyen1963]

I have them...cause I can :)

I'll just call them rain flaps from now on. Besides..we do have mud here. I saw some the other day. It was awful

Do people in Wisconsin have AC or 2WD ?

I lived in Madison for 15 yrs, and no, I did not not have AC. RWD with a set of snow tires is something that you warm-climate denizens can never experience.:twisted:

[jeffnhiscars]

I lived in Madison for 15 yrs, and no, I did not not have AC. RWD with a set of snow tires is something that you warm-climate denizens can never experience.:twisted:

I was born in Ny and spent much of my adult life in Canada. Nothing like a 2wd pickup w a half dozen Douglas fir rounds in the back to give it weight...

...but then we digress. This is about mudflaps, not cheese...or who has the biggest snow balls :)

[jeffnhiscars]

Where did all these mud flap haters come from

Mud flap envy ?

[TobyB]

RWD with an LSD and a set of snow tires is something that you warm-climate denizens can never experience.

Drifted- I mean, fixed- that for ya.

Not a hater- I cried a little when the ti mudflap part number that was 'active' came back as 'NLA' after I tried to order it...

t