I am getting passenger complaints, and since it's my little brother, who comes out to visit but once a year, and helps enormously in garage tidying, I listen to him.

What is the single most effective mod to prevent passengers from getting pelted? The whole car fills up with small stones with every drive. I have a full windscreen, wipers etc. I run 205 width, 15" Toyo R888 tyres.

1. Side curtains/half doors (don't want full ones) (plastic, CF, Vinyl, doesn't matter the material)
2. Small wind deflectors
3. Extra mudguards drilled into my nice carbon fibre front wings (least appealing choice)

All of these are easily made, but I only want one.

Someone has a good idea on this. You never let me down.

Thank you in advance!

Not sure how to stop them getting in but:

1. Collect small stones
2. Bag up and sell as Aquarium gravel
3. ????
4. Profit

Hard to say without seeing the car but I would imagine that extensions on the front mud guards would be the most effective, simplest and cheapest option. No need to drill your wings just sikaflex (or other PU adhesive) the extension on to the inside of the guard.

Cheers
Davie

Hi,

Whilst not your favoured choice mud flaps do work well in rain and on normal roads, however I did find that whist driving through France this year on some of the roads that the Tour was going to use I still had stones being thrown at me from the resurfaced roads.

This may point you in another direction but I do like the mudflaps purely for the rain.

Regards

Bob

Can you rotate the wheel arches to lower the rear edge?

i get this a lot in my MNR. The front arches come quite far round the front wheels too. i just vacuum them out every once in a while

better than cocks in your rockpit!

i suspect mud flap/guard extentions is your only real option. i suspect most of these rocks will be flicked up by they tyres when cornering.

I had a similar problem, in as much as stones marking the rear arches. I fitted mud flaps to the flont wings that extended down to around an inch, (25mm), from the road surface, worked a treat. HTH Ray
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I made some mudflaps out of 4mm sheet rubber and it made a lot of difference and kept the stones/chippings at bay
Also helped protect the body and exhaust
They remained flexible, but stable at speed and worked a treat

888's are the bigest problem I have winyl side panels and mud flaps the side panels alone are quite effective

I have some half doors I made by cutting down the full doors that came with my car, work well at keeping most of the stuff out, but you do still get the odd stone flicking inside the car from time to time. I have since made some full doors to stop this, so I have these half doors if they are any use to you, fitted a narrow westy.

probably not worth it to you to send them all the way to canada, although I am probably going to get or make some over the winter. I have an MK.