Member Since: 23 Feb 2011
Location: Solihull
Posts: 4
My Puma (April 2010, 110 Utility Station Wagon) is going in for its first service next week; the only warranty job relates to the rear mud flaps. After 10,000 miles, none off-road but with a lot of motorway miles between the West Midlands and Scotland, one of the flaps has had enough. The photos below illustrate what has happened. Actually having examined the flaps the offside rear flap is MUCH stiffer than the nearside. When it flexes most of the stress is being transferred to the fixings with this as the result. This is my fourth Defender and I've never encountered such stiff flaps.
I think Defenders are great and can live with most of the problems but you would think LR could at least get the mudflaps right!!!!!!
Just another day in the life of a Defender.
23rd Feb 2011 1:43pm
blackwolf
Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17388
rogerwd wrote:
My Puma (April 2010, 110 Utility Station Wagon) is going in for its first service next week; the only warranty job relates to the rear mud flaps. After 10,000 miles, none off-road but with a lot of motorway miles between the West Midlands and Scotland, one of the flaps has had enough. The photos below illustrate what has happened....
I would be interested to know what the official repair process for this problem is (presumably it is not to replace the RH bodyside)! My '07 DC had the same problem (again the O/S) and I repaired it by bonding a length of alloy equal-angle extrusion into the bottom flange of the panel, reinforced with a couple of blind rivets, and then redrilled the hole for the mudflap support. Sofar this "invisible" repair has been entirely satisfactory and is much stronger than the original arrangement.
The only difficult I had was the usual; namely the threaded insert at the chassis end of the mudflap support was loose in the chassis and the machine screw was rusted into it.
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23rd Feb 2011 2:17pm
