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chalky
Member Since: 22 Aug 2008
Location: Yorkshire
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I'm at work so I get to pootle about in the new D4 !
Only downside is I have to keep it clean, and with all this rain mud muck etc I was wondering about fitting mud flaps ?
Baring in mind I'm about as handy with a spanner as I am calibrating the Higgs Bosun machine  What's involved ?
It's more expensive to fit them that it is to buy ? 1:5hrs labour @ £110 per hour + VAT !
I'm pretty sure I can offer a moulded part up to another bit and ram some screws in but if it involves taking trim off and cutting back with a Stanley knife then I reckon it's off to the dealers ?
Any one done this ?
Thanks Only dead fish go with the Flow !
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 14th Jul 2012 8:05 am |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
Posts: 10564
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It is an easy job, fronts remove three screws from memory, offer up mudflaps and refit three screws, 10 minutes to do both.
Rears a little mre difficult as there is a little right had bracket to fit to give additional support, but once you figure out where this goes, again very easy and quick to do. Rears also need a small right angled screw driver or 1/4 drive rachet and screw driver bit as there is very little room between tyre and arch to get a screw driver into. Alternativley if you remove the wheel it gives masses or room.
No cutting or removal of trim required.
the LR mudfalps do make a diffrence but others have used series 2 flexible mudflaps from memory and these seem to offer more protection.  MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
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| 14th Jul 2012 8:22 am |
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MarsKy
Member Since: 23 Dec 2011
Location: Lanarkshire
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Mud flaps are well worth having - they do make a difference.
Just to add to Russell's comments:
* Front ones are dead easy to do.
* The fitting instructions (pictures) for the rear aren't too great. For one screw, there is a small square hole (a few mm2) you need to find to tighten things up (that's for the "little right hand bracket to fit to give additional support" which Russell talks about). You need to go under and to the back of the wheel arch to find it. Find it and you'll save a load of time (I didn't stratight away and spent about an hour looking )
* I binned the screws for fitting through the small square hole and bracket (but I kept the ones for the rest of the rear). I found using longer ones made it easier to fit and better in tightening up everything.
* Stubby ratchet screwdriver and the rears can be fitted - even with my fat fingers.
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| 14th Jul 2012 9:02 am |
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APL
Member Since: 14 Sep 2011
Location: Europe
Posts: 1130
 
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Just make sure you get the right mud flaps........ Discovery 4's that come with the unpainted bumpers and wheel arch trims (such as mine) - such as the base Commercial for example, still use the older Discovery 3 mud flap kit, something my supplying dealer didn't realise when I ordered my car back at the start of D4 production! 2016 Discovery 4 Commercial
2019 Discovery 5 HSE
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| 14th Jul 2012 12:25 pm |
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chalky
Member Since: 22 Aug 2008
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 3145
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Thanks Guys,
Much appreciated, I had a wasted trip to the local dealership this Morning only to find that they do not open on a Saturday Morning, this is dispite my phone call to them yersterday to:
A: See if they were infact open on A Saturday
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B: To establish whether they do infact have these items in stock !
So back down there again on Monday morning then 
Russell
I noticed from your sig that you have an HSE ?
Have you got the auto flippy Full beam thing ?
How weird is that ? Only dead fish go with the Flow !
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| 14th Jul 2012 1:03 pm |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
Posts: 10564
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Do you mean thehigh beam assist, if so then yes I have. Had it on both D4's first worked most of the time this one seems much more sensative. MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
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| 14th Jul 2012 4:08 pm |
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Migster
Member Since: 20 Sep 2010
Location: Lowton, Cheshire
Posts: 170
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Hi
I got some of eBay for around £30 quid. They're great and you can't tell apart from the real thing apart from the fact that they have a "Rand Rover" symbol.
Other than that they are indistuinguishable from the real thing .
John http://www.flickr.com/photos/8851994@N05/sets/
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| 14th Jul 2012 4:12 pm |
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