Mike, did the parts department provide you with the installation instructions?

 

Dave, you have a deal. The instructions I received from the parts dept. mention that the car shouldn't be driven for at least 6 hours after the install. Do you have it garaged? It recommends an install temp above 59 degrees, but it was probably around 40 in our garage. It's just for the bonding of the adhesive backed tape to the plastic trim.

We are going to be having our annual membership meeting at Victory Brewing in Downingtown on Sunday March 27th. The details will be posted shortly on our site. If you're interested, I can let you know as soon as it gets posted and I could get you reserved since we are looking at over 100 attendees.

 

Just checked the dealer website under Mini Motoring Accessories:

CM Mud Flaps;

Front Pair: $122.75 + 43.25 installation

Rear Pair: $122.00 + 52.50 installation

Grand Total: $340.80 + 29.40 Tax = $370.20

Not bad for an item you can get on e-bay motors (from a mini dealer no less) for $94 shipped to your door.

I believe I know who will be installing the mud flaps when we get the CM

~Cheers

 

The parts dept website at Seattle Mini lists them at $43.25 for front and $52.50 for the back pair. This matches your Instl quote. Might want to recheck into it.

 

Thanks

 

Just looked at the website of MINI of Southampton and saw that the front pair costs $112.75 installed. If you deduct the cost of the front flaps ($43.25) from $112.75, the charge for installation is $69.50, probably the cost of 0.5 hours labor at the dealership. If you do the math for the rear set, you get to the same result for installation cost. Undoubtedly, you can do the installation yourself and save some money. On the other hand, paying for an hour's worth of labor to install 4 mudflaps isn't totally unreasonable IMO. And if you haven't ordered the car yet, you could probably negotiate even better terms. Good luck!

 

I read it as $112.75 (w/o installation $43.25) thinking that $43.25 was the installation charge. My bad.

You're right though, an hours worth of labor is not really much to haggle over. My work load is sufficient enough that I don't neeed to be pulling wheels off a new car in the cold weather to save $100 labor. I'd rather have that extra hour one morning to sleep late.

Thanks for pointing that out.

 

So you have to remove the wheels to do the install?
We're thinking just rear mud flaps.
Annette

 

CAN ANYONE SAY RIPOFF??? Who are they trying to kid. They don't cost $122 a pair.

 

The fronts are more important than the rears. You'll be getting stone chips on your doors and black trim more so without the fronts. Get them all around, it just won't look right with only one set.

 

Yes, the wheels must be removed to do the install.

 

As I posted above, I made a mistake reading the dealer's website. The set is approximately $95 without installation and the dealer's installation labor is approximately $150 +/- which seems fair if all 4 wheels need to be removed for the installation.


~Cheers!

 

sorry, didn't see the corrected post.

cheers

 

Does anyone have a full body side shot of a CM with mudflaps?

 

it's much better to see the rear and angle shot. What are you looking for with the side shot?

 

I guess I was just throwing that out there without much thought. All the shots I have seen so far have been very much closeups so really any wider shot would be great.

 

Mike, did you have to remove the tires to install? Thanks!

 

Mike hasn't been on much lately, but I can answer you. Yes, because there is drilling involved. I installed them about 2 weeks ago on my wife's CM.

 

Mine haven't arrived yet, but I have a small right angle drill and assume i will be able to drill the holes with it without removing wheels...anyone confirm?

 

Check out my various albums in Picasa, some shots are a bit farther out.

You can see the mud-flaps on our CM.

Don

 

You might be able to get at the front ones by turning the front tires to get more room. Another poster said he didn't have to drill any holes.

I guess if you have the right tools and are mechanically inclined you could get it done without removing the wheels. I don't know the car that well so I may be wrong.

 

Another mudflapper here! Got them installed at the dealership today. Took a few days to come in after being ordered at the dealership last week.

Hopefully will keep some of the road crud off the front doors!

 

Does anyone know if you can still remove the rear bumper after the rear mudflaps are installed? I have to remove the bumper to install the MiniFini hitch and need to know if the dealer installs the mudflaps first that I can still remove the bumper later.

 

My dealer provided the front and rear mud flaps at a discount, with a discount on labor as well. Then they said they had done this before and quoted the labor at one hour per flap - or about $720 less discount.

I said I'd take the flaps and install them myself. There's a lot of good information on NAM and I don't anticipate any trouble, thanks to our friends.

 

That's ridiculous!!! I installed them and the thing that took me the longest was figuring out how to use those plastic rivits!! I first tried using the pop riviter I have and then finally figured out that to use them, you insert the rivit so the head is flush with the surface, then tap on the center dowel that effectively expands the rivit "feet" to complete the snug fit!

Took me 40 minutes to get the right front flap on. Took 5 minutes to get the left front flap on.

The trickest part with the rear flap was securing the bottom most bolt closest to the car's center. I finally realized that the existing plastic rivit could be cut away easily by getting a pair of wire cutters at the rivit's "feet" and that the best method was by looking at it from a position that has your head near the rear center bumper, viewing along the exhaust pipe on the side you're installing. Sounds weird, but if you get your head down there and angle your head to see the rivit's feet, you'll figure it out.

Again, the first took much longer. I do recall that any holes I did drill were strictly through plastic.

Have fun. I know my install labor savings are going towards some other thingamabob for my CM!!

Good luck and feel free to shout if questions!