Question : OEM Miata Mud Guards

[— Phatmiata —]

Firgured I would move this to the exterior section so folks can help answer this question.

Are the OEM Rear mud guards the ones that go below the bumper lines?

There are 2 types that made it into the USA IIRC. The first was from Japan (came installed on the cars) for the NA6

OEM1 Muguards NA6.jpg

The second was also OEM but I think it was made in the USA, it was offered for the NA8 model. Notice it goes up higher on the rear fender.

Both are interchangeable

OEM2 Muguards NA8.jpg

[Joker]

Thanks for the info!

[Ihatecars]

Very interesting.
The JDM pair look a lot better, imo.

[—atank—]

JDM +1

[scannon]

I'm pretty sure that neither of these two types were ever installed at the factory at least for the USA cars. They were a dealer or self installed item.

[— Malibu Q —]

I don't know if this is any help but my car came with two piece ones. About the same height as the NA8 ones phat posted, but above the bumper/fender seam it was a separate part.

Here's Kjman55's beautiful car with said plastics

[— vote4pedro —]

I don't know if this is any help but my car came with two piece ones. About the same height as the NA8 ones phat posted, but above the bumper/fender seam it was a separate part.

Actually those are a combo of the shorter NA6 mudguards with an even shorter mudguard type of extension piece that was available through Mazda, which basically made them the longer NA8 mudguards - like Malibu Q wrote. M2 Incorporated used the really short units on their M2 cars.

FYI - I had the longer NA8 mudguards on my car and when I took them off, the upper section had rubbed some paint off of both quarters.

A pic of the ones I am talking about, and on my roadster.: