Adding more choices to the mud flap no mud flap discussion

I noticed there is quite a bit of talk about which is better, mud flaps or no mud flaps. But not much discussion aftermarket or modified mudflaps. This is my solution to the issue.

 

Jason, guys here have been trimming the mudflaps for years. Check the Mods & Tutorials section, and you'll get gobs of other ideas for your truck.

 

Jason, I just bought a 2015 tacoma. Where did you purchase those modified mudflaps? I want some smaller ones for sure and my truck is almost identical to yours, just black not gray.

 

Welcome to TW.

Looks to me like he cut his down like most of us who offroad have done over the years.

 

The whole idea on the huge stock mudguards, was a result of all the 1st gen & early 2nd gen 2005-2006 complaints of peppered rocker panels and bedsides. Especially in areas where chip-sealing, poor roads, and sand/ salt is used in snowy areas.

If you are cool with having the paint at your rockers and lower bedside chewed up, cut or remove them. Off-road enthusiast probably don't care anyway, as the truck will get chewed and dinged anyway from frequent usage off highway.

But if you like to keep your truck as nice as possible, for as long as possible, and not really into the Off-roading thing, I highly suggest leaving them on and at stock length.

Personally I just wish there was a way to use winged nuts, for a quick removal and re-install after off-road usage. I personally am fairly OCD about my vehicles, so it' not an option to remove them. I did on my old truck, as a try-N-see after adding BFG AT's, but in one day I could hear large rocks hit the rocker on the highway, and had a few new chips and gouges, so they went back on.

 

Toyota has been doing those 4WD/4x4 mudflaps for years (80s). But the problem is, especially after 2005, the material is very thick and doesn't bend. I park somewhere that has a little bit a drop, it's not much at all... but enough to take a mudflap off

 

They are there for good reason, like your personal mudflap. Don't mutilate them.

 

I agree with DoorDing. I go through a couple sets of mudflaps every year, and the best I have found are the plasticolor's with the mountains.

 

I like RokBlokz rally flaps the best, i feel they offer the most protection while looking the best IMO

 

My mudflap is better than yours.

 

the stock ones on the 2015 bend just fine...
but they rub on my 4.5bs wheels with 265/75/16
I am going to try to trim them slightly shorter, but mostly losing some of the inboard portion as that's where mine rub, right at the mounting point

 

Yep- tore mine off yesterday launching the duck boat (we need rain).