I have read the discussion earlier this week on the audi mudflaps. Since I have just taken delivery of my A4 with sport suspension. I am debating getting the dealer mudflaps to keep my car clean. Any pictures available...<p>Seems to be some debate about ground rub with these. Further comment on this and the installation/ removal would be helpful.<p>-thx

I installed mudflaps last spring on my 98 1.8T with Sport suspension.<p>They are very low in the back. I am told that they are this way because of some German law about much spray can come from the back wheels in the rain.<p>They scrap only when I go up steap ramps or regular ramps if I have passengers in the back seat. Though annoying, no damaged has resulted other than the mudflap get a little shorter each time.<p>They do however do a very good job of keeping stuff off the car. Especially if you have 225 wide tires.<p>The fronts go on with existing srews and clips. The backs require drilled holes in the plastic fender liner. Took me about 45 min to do the job.<p>Roger V.<br>98 1.8TQMS Wett1.0

I put the mudflaps on my 98.5 2.8qm about 2 weeks after I bought the car. They noticeably reduced the mud on the back and sides of the car. The are long and even without the lower sport suspension, I have scraped them a few times. No harm done but they sure sound like you are doing damage when they scrape. Once I scraped them on a curb parallel parking and I thought I had scraped the wheels or a rear panel. It sounded horrible, but once again I was relieved to see it was just the mud flap.

Steve, I posted some shots of the flaps on my '97 about a year ago. I think the file was named flaps.jpg. I can's get the A4.org picture poster to load for some reason, but you should be able to find the photo there. <p>Also, I recently added a photo of my car, w/ flaps, to the registry (which i also can not get to load today, Grrrrrr.) . <p>Hopefully, you will have better luck than I am having with the registry/picture poster. <p>If you would prefer, I could e-mail you photos. <p>Robert Jordan<br>'97 1.8t/M/B/CD/5-spokes/Con./armrest/flaps

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