How useful is the mud flap and how does it look?

[Suberman]

Originally Posted by InvalidJohnny5

I like the form and fuction they provide lol, not very Aero, but I love the royal look it gives my car.

Check out the aero slots in the rear flaps! These must add significant downforce at speed.

[YMAA]

Originally Posted by yberther

This may sound weird, but has anyone tried both?

Rather, mount the OEM's then mount the RA ones on top of them?

Not sure how or why you would. The RA mounting system uses metal brackets that secure under the body panels of the car to hold the flaps in place - this is necessary because they hang down so far.

The RA flaps also cover more surface area than the OEM ones so you wouldn't really be gaining any protection.

[wbradley]

OEM Scion= inconspicuous and effective

Rally Armour= look like they belong on a rally raced WRX, tasteless on the twins.

[Stierzy34]

I am a huge personal fan of Rally Armor and their product. I had flaps on both of my WRXs. However, they just didn't seem to fit with the BRZ. I bought the OEM Scion mud guards and they are awesome. Fit perfect and have a nice low profile while still offering protection.

[DylanFRS]

Originally Posted by rishi

Back guards don't do as well without drilling, but it's just making a little hole in plastic, so people have been able to install them without a jack - I've seen people say they popped out the wheel well liner so they can drill it proper, and others that just used a right angle drill or heated drill bit to do it directly.

Wait, people drill holes in their brand new cars so that they don't have to temporarily jack the rear end of the car up?

[Stierzy34]

Drilling is required either way, whether you jack the car up or not. It isn't actually any of the body, just the fender liner.

[rishi]

Originally Posted by DylanFRS

Wait, people drill holes in their brand new cars so that they don't have to temporarily jack the rear end of the car up?

Drilling is part of the installation instructions - you need an extra hole for one of the pushpins on each mud guard. That one pushpin is pretty important on the back guards, because the existing holes are pretty much in a straight vertical line down the edge of the wheel well, so it'd be easy to rip the guard off.

It's easy to do the drilling with the car jacked and the wheels taken off, I'm just saying it's not necessary to go through all the effort if you don't already have the car jacked for another reason.

[AUmarvin]

One of the great things about the Rally Armor flaps is NO drilling of your new car!!!!

[Monoman]

Newbie BRZ owner here. Does Subaru offer OEM mud flaps or do you have to get them from Scion? If Subaru has them does anyone know the part number ?

[AznBRZer]

Originally Posted by Monoman

Newbie BRZ owner here. Does Subaru offer OEM mud flaps or do you have to get them from Scion? If Subaru has them does anyone know the part number ?

You can only get them from Scion, but they come in Toyota boxes.

[SpectreRT]

Originally Posted by AznBRZer

You can only get them from Scion, but they come in Toyota boxes.

What he said; go to any Toyota dealer. They are ~$50 or so.

And you can install them without removing the wheels rather easily (this includes drilling for the rear mud flap/guard).

[Monoman]

TYVM

[hanabie]

mud flap people are gonna hate my post. lol

[qqzj]

Can you elaborate a bit on installing w/o drilling? Thanks.

Originally Posted by SpectreRT

And you can install them without removing the wheels rather easily (this includes drilling for the rear mud flap/guard).