My old Rangie has the Mudflaps they're 20yrs old now give or take a few months and as expected the bolt heads are non existant and the flaps themselves are starting to warp and twist due to the frames inside the rubber corroding, "I assume" and the rear NS flap has started to fall apart due to the frame rotting away they look crap to be fair..

Having looked underneath it seems they are held to the wing with what looks like metal clips that self tappers screw into?

Or is there a frame of some kind that hold them on?

Thanks

H

H

Looks to me like the rears just use Speednuts while the fronts have a Speednut at the top and one of the square nylon insert things the are used in various different places.

Speednuts, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Semoic-Universal-Fasteners-Tapping-Interior/dp/B086144YN3/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=speed+nuts&qid=1607296874&sr=8-11

I had to drill my front ones out as the screws were knackered, had as you describe fixing them in position, unfortunately I haven’t had the pleasure of doing the rear ones yet

Thanks both..

Guess i'll have to get medieval on them!

Yep, mix of speednuts and the expanding square nylon thingies.

If the screws were originally good quality drilling rarely works as the screws spin before the head is fully penetrated but don't get slack enough to lever out through the access holes in the rubber.

Total bastard to shift in one bit as per book. I tried to save mine which were good rubber over corroded steel and, basically, wasted a weekend getting them off in one piece. Binned about a week later under "life is to short to fix 'em" rules.

If there is ever a next time I shall do some careful cutting to remove enough rubber to see WTHIGO before going seriously medieval with added eval. Probably hit the screw heads with a grinder once der rubbered.

Clive

Last time I had mine off I replaced the speed nuts and used stainless self tappers.

I have done the same. I replaced all mine with stainless self tappers over 10 years ago. I also copied the brackets using some sheet stainless I had.
Never seen stainless captive nuts though. I just used new OEM ones.
The wheel arch protectors shown in Richards post are just glued on. I have just bought some and I am waiting for the UK weather to improve.