JWL wrote:

I lost a front mudflap at the end of July, not so much lost it, it just gave up and fell off on an off road site. No problems I thought, I'll put the other one on as I bought a pair a couple of years ago and the one that broke was the other. I got home, looked in the garage and laid my hands on the second, even though it was still in its plastic bag it had cracked open along the slight crease where it had sat on a shelf for two years. Yes, the colour of the bag was blue
I had noticed on one of the roundabouts in town at the end of June that there was a front mudflap from a Defender sat on one of the little filter islands before the main roundabout so the next time I went to town I made my way to the island and it was still there! So two months after I'd first spotted it I picked it up, all that had happened was the metal bracket had broken off, the mud flap was fine and an original LR one, so fixings cut off and it's now fixed to mine.
So even with a 2 year warranty, a certain company's products can still only last that long while sitting on a shelf!