Hi everyone, I'm considering adding some mudflaps to my RRS. I currently find that the car gets incredibly filthy rather quick from the spray shooting up from the road as I drive. Especially the rear of the car. I'm obsessed with keeping it clean but the dirt it keeps collecting as soon as I go out in it is depressing!

How effective are aftermarket mudflaps from keeping the car a bit cleaner? Also how easy are they to fit?

Thanks in advance.

Since fitting mine I've not noticed much difference, if any, to the rear of the car. The flanks, however, stay a lot cleaner.

As Lonescout says the difference with/without is negligible and it's the same for RRS2/ L494 version. They are not long enough to really be effective, I had thought about buying and modifying some of the flexible truck type flaps like I have on my Defender to fit to the RRS but decided it would not enhance the looks of the car one iota so stuck with LR's offering. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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+1 on not making much difference... although I live down a small track used by a farmer so my car doesn't stand much of a chance of staying clean

I can say having fitted them to both my 2012 and 2015 RRS, that the rear mud flaps do not really stop the rear window from becoming dirty in anything other than bone dry conditions. They do perhaps prevent some stone chipping along the flanks, but in reality the mudflaps are quite small. The debate is whether the minimal difference in cleanliness is worth the cost. It is a bit of style over substance. 2015 Range Rover Sport Autobiography Dynamic SDV6
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As said before, these mud flaps stop some (but not all) dirt on the flanks.

In general, mud flaps don't help with dirt on the rear as spray is sucked up by the aerodynamic forces.

Robert

On aussie rrs the rear mud flaps are standard so I am not sure how effective they are - however I was continually getting dirt along the sides from the front wheels - I put a set on the front and they certainly work well keeping dirt off the lower flanks of the car - certainly well worth having front mudflaps 07MY RRS TDV6
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Has anyone found the combination of mud flaps and side steps to be more effective than just mud flaps? I found this worked quite well on my D4 although that seemed to have a "mud storage compartment" inside the rear doors! 😀

Hi all, I've purchased the Mudflaps. Just awaiting delivery so only time will tell. One of my current annoyances is all the dirt that gets thrown up into the side steps from the front wheels. I'm hoping the Mudflaps will limit this!

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If that's the case then I must have the best looking RRS in the country!  D3 LHD - great car !
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Between the sidesteps and flaps, the side of the car stays clean and that's all relative....Still needs a good wash down every week or so, 2018 Telsa MS
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When you consider how much sh*t the average lorry fitted with even large mudflaps still throws up, it must be a hard job suppressing it. I've had them fitted to my 1 March car, more in hope than expectation based on previous experience, but I've got deployable side steps and am hoping the flaps will at least reduce the amount of muck that gets into their mechansm.

I'm not an aerodynamics expert but isn't that high spoiler on the sport the main reason for dirt on the rear? It seems to me that it is creating low pressure under the wing sucking up everything it can find from behind the RRS. If I'm right then only eliminating all muck thrown up behind the car as you drive along would prevent it being sucked up and onto the rear door and window - an impossibility
If we all drove around at no more than 10mph then that would solve the problem . In some parts of the SE that's the maximum speed anyway  Robin
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You are correct, which, presumably, is why they've introduced the vented aerofoil on the new D5 and soon-to-be face-lifted RRS. However, my personal problem is more to do with mud than spray, living in the country and down a farm lane, and I dread to think what my car would look like without mudflaps. I even have them on my SL500, which probably looks a bit strange.