Mud Flaps or Not?

I'm not a fan of the look and they are very vulnerable to rock damage if you do any serious off roading. The first thing I do to my truck every time I get a new one is remove the mud flaps.

 

Here's what I've been told as young lad. Front flaps protect your car, rear flaps more protect the cars behind you.

 

I’m a no mud flap guy as I think it looks better but to each their own. With that said, if I had a more aggressive tire/wheel setup I might reconsider.

 

Flaps on, REK Gen’s, keeps gravel chips to a minimum and helps keep salt spray where it belongs..

 

OEM Mud flaps are practical when used.



I put on Fender Flares (Fendys) and had to remove them.

 

Stock flaps break far to easy. I swapped to rok blokz 2 years ago and they have been great until I did a cmc and I have to figure out how to get the fronts mounted again.

 

These look like they replicate the first gen ones! Where did you get these? I've contemplated sourcing some rubber/plastic sheet and custom cutting them, then lettering them myself, just for the fun of it -but these look like exactly what I was going for. Did you just buy some 1st gen ones and use your own mounting holes?

 

https://www.tufskinz.com/collections/tacoma-2016/products/mud-flaps-toyota-tacoma

 

Ahhhh. I'm looking for a rubber flap, something a bit more flexible. Have you had these off road at all? Wondering if they bend enough.

 

They have some flexibility, but not a whole bunch. That truck was never offroaded.

 

Flaps on like the look and hate the splatter on the side if the truck

 

The ones I have on my 1st gen are some kind of PU, i think. Ill have to get a picture. I'm thinking I can CNC the lettering into a sheet.

 

Used to have them, don't anymore. Can't.

 

As a motorcyclist, I appreciate mudflaps. So I in turn use them.

 

I run the tuffskinz cards on the rear. They take light to moderate impacts just fine. If you're ripping them off then you're bashing your tailpipe. If you're at the kind of off-roading where you need to relocate exhaust and trim fenders, then I wouldn't run flaps.