Mudflaps: Functional vs Appearance

[sexsiangel]

I hope this goes here and I searched but found nothing pertaining to the functionality of mudflaps. Do they help the car or not? I think my car looks good with them but when i go over speedbumps they scrape, so if i take them off the scraping will stop but will they help the car or damage it with rust build up? I heard that they make rust build up behind there and i've heard that they stop the rust. Which is it?

[SuperTuner12010]

Thniking locicaly I think they would help rust.The water wouyld leak down into there and slowly start to eat the metal.

My idea on it....Anyone else?

[Chino10460]

all the mudflaps do is keep dirt from getting on the side of your bumper and fender and it also help other's by not letting the dirt and particle you pick up hit them cuzz the mudflap will stop and as far as looks goes i think our cb's look weird with out them, i dont know if this happened to other but my front left fender mudflap fell of and the paint on the fender was peeled of and i had a black outline of the mudflap on my fender so i had to put the mudflap back on

[ilovemycb7]

Mudflaps, as mentioned, do help to keep the side of the car cleaner (obviously in water/dirt). I also think they look better on than off. I know what you mean though, mine scrape... but they are soft rubber so its not a big deal.

[sexsiangel]

ya the scraping is just annoying so i guess its a bit ofd tug-of-war then? they look good on the car but bad for rust, great lol

[NAiL05]

Thniking locicaly I think they would help rust.The water wouyld leak down into there and slowly start to eat the metal.

My idea on it....Anyone else?

Not from my experiences coming up north and seeing other peoples cars driving around.

[90-JDMCB7]

I took mine off and have no negative experience as a result of it....the paint on the side of my car is straight and no rust. IMO it gives the car a cleaner look

I am rocking 18's with 40 offset and dont really get alot slung up on the side of my car...no more than usual!

[lokuputha]

i like my mudflaps, they help hide the rust

plus in Stoney Creek, ON, it'll be helpful on wet roads.

[Chrisisiced]

I like the look of my car without the mudflaps but i wish i had them back on because they were functional in keeping mud/dirt/etc from getting on the side of my car. Whats worse is because my car is white its noticeable instanty when i drive through some crap.

[sexsiangel]

I took mine off and have no negative experience as a result of it....the paint on the side of my car is straight and no rust. IMO it gives the car a cleaner look

I am rocking 18's with 40 offset and dont really get alot slung up on the side of my car...no more than usual!

i think they look better off your car cuz u have the nice blue colour lol

so i guess maybe i'll take a look to see if there is any rust build up. if not off they come, if there is they will stay lol

thanks

[JDM_CB7_TX]

I think they look good on and besides when you clean your car and armor all the tires it helps to keep that tire shine off of the sides of your car. It always happens when you start to take off it slowly will sling off the tire. It also does have a nice apperace to it. I hear you on the scraping when you go over speed bumps. All I would say is hang in there it will eventually scrape itself down and if you are impatient about it then just get a demel and cut a little bit of it off rather then take the whole thing off.

[MikeW]

Im for both. They look good on some, especially with a drop

But at the same time, they can look kinda cheesy and outta place. Plus, i think little streak of "dirty-water" splash kinda looks good on a car. I mean, a clean car looks good too, but i dunno. I took mine off cuz i thought they looked too cheesy, but ive seen some nicely dont mudflaps.

[ExplodingCake]

As for functionality , they make the car look less dirty especially during rainy days then the sun comes up. Without mudflaps will make the car dirty especially that mus splash look lol..

I like em on. I have 2 inch drop and I abuse em by scraping.

I scrape em like a gangsta. I lay out sparks on them haha..

[zigg_1311]

i think they look cleaner off, but my car is white and i am whiting everything out, IMO, i like them off, but i could see them being useful on some

[Losiracer2]

Well, my coupe came with only the front so it looked kinda wierd. I just got some today and it really helped the look, esp w/ my legend front lip, IMO, the more crap you have hanging, the lower your car looks lol. Plus i was getting pissed since i run wider 215 tires, every time i went over a little puddle, my rear bumper was dirtified.