Custom inner guards for wheel arch ideas?

[AB]

I'm lost on how to do this properly. Finally had time to clean the car after Licola and the clay that gets caught up under the fold of the wheel arch is a nightmare to clean!

As some of you know I took off 30mm all around my wheel arches which meant the OEM wheel arch plastic guards underneath don't fit.

The OEM plastic guards that sit under the wheel arch on the front work a treat as they have tabs which sit just in between the arch metal fold and the flares.

Because I've completely changed the circumference so to speak you can't even cut them back to suit or even manipulate them to work.

So I've been driving around with no guards, dirt and mud is a nightmare to clean as it embeds into the guard fold and embeds into the door hinge area as It's all open as per pic below!



The door hinge area is easy of course as you can just run a strip of plastic/rubber etc 150mm wide, easy done, even use existing OEM threads/holes!

I'm trying to work out an easy way to close off the right angle of the wheel arch fold where the flares mount.

I've mounted my flares with stainless steel rivets and I'm not overly keen on removing them all and changing the fixing to small bolts or similar to run the new plastic strip from the fold and close off that area.

Long story short, is there an option to run an extrusion/pinch weld set up you could run on the fold that uses the pinch weld to hold onto the fold and a triangle bulb to close off the right angle area of the guard fold?

You can buy the pinch weld style with a round bulb as below but the round bulb will just create another crevice higher up for mud.



Can you get something like the above but the bulb in a triangle set up to not create a crevice and for ease of clean?

Like my high tech scaled drawing below...

Black is front view of arch, red is extrusion.

This would work great for the rear arches of everyone's GQ's too!



Or does anyone have another idea...lol

[GQtdauto]

When you have a solution let me know .

[AB]

When you have a solution let me know .

I'm now thinking I'm not sure how a triangle shape would even roll over an arch.

More of a strip that is moulded to angle back would probably be better.

[MB]

Not sure if you remember seeing it mate but my old 55 from Terry had a rolled steel trapazoid profile welded in both front and rear to strengthen and eliminate this issue from your pic.
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In regards covering the voids, fabrication work again whilst doing the guard edges would be the ultimate $$ longevity solution. Expander foam for the voids and steel putty on the inside guard edges for a 45 degree angle drain could work temporarily/dodgy too ?

[AB]

Thanks mate yeah I want to make sure I can access those bits if required that's all.

If I can't find extrusion like that or if there's no other option I'll just have to drill out the rivets or do new fixings in between the flare fixings for a wide strip of plastic to cover both arch fold and door hinge and headlight area.


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[Rossco]

Hmmm yeah a tricky one. . . Just a thought but maybe a GU inner guard might be able to be adapted ? ? Unless there's something that's softer than the OEM plastic and more rigid than rubber that could be moulded ro shape somehow. . . Good luck ☺ . . .

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[MB]

I think Rossco might be onto something there @AB. Remember that roll of thick sheet plastic we had to install 1200mm deep between a customers Oak tree and site. Root Barrier 1mm HDPE plastic I think it was and would heat gun mold to shape too I reckon.

[Rossco]

. . . and heat gun mold to shape too I reckon.

Ah yes heat gun, now there's a thinker . .

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[AB]

Hmmm... you've got me thinking now how much you could manipulate oem guards with some heat?


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