Hi all

Someone raised the issue of front brows/spats recently.

Do they serve any real function? The screws keep the internal and external mudguards together, but the spats seem to be cosmetic. Just something to get ripped off when offroad.

Cheers guys.


 MY11 SD4 SE Auto

Try using the site search function and you will find this amongst other posts

https://www.freel2.com/forum/topic16993.html?highlight=spats

I think you should find the answer to your question there

Haha I think there are more questions than answers.
Probably more/deeper water off road than on. Lower speeds I guess.

Off they come!

Cheers. MY11 SD4 SE Auto

Big puddles at normal road speeds (20-40mm deep/30+ mph) will cause water to be thrown forward and up (from the wheel contact patch) which then gets driven into by the car getting the windscreen covered, these deflectors (oddly enough) deflect the water from the wheel. Regards

David

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Well, now that's funny the spats coming up...... Whilst sitting in dealership showroom Thursday a £81500k RR was being shown to a customer and I could see the near side spat was cracked and hanging down



 If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

I think these do prevent a lot of water spary. I had a Disco 2 before the Freelander and if you hit puddles on the road you could get a tidal wave thrown up over the bonet and windscreen. The Freelander suffers from this much less  Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

With the 90/110, when water splashed up over the windscreen, it was then with you for the rest of the day! It poured off the screen onto the bonnet, but forward motion kept it up at the windscreen end of the bonnet...until you slowed enough for it to run down to the front edge of the bonnet, where it blew back up onto the windscreen! 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

I put spats on my FL2 and they do stop some of the water from getting on to the screen. But they aren’t compatible with the sump protector so they came back off.

I had to check that I had spats on my Freelander as water flies onto my windscreen when going through a sizable puddle.
So to me they are useless.
My previous Freelander didn’t have them and I didn’t get this issue... but then again, it was in Oz!

 Regards

David

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AiiEEX wrote:

I had to check that I had spats on my Freelander as water flies onto my windscreen when going through a sizable puddle.
So to me they are useless.

Well your obviously not using them correctly  Regards

David

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