Will Mud Flaps Make the Miata NA Look Better?

[Rock Star]

I am thinking about buying a set of mud flaps for my NA. Do you think mud flaps would make my NA look better? If you have any before and after pictures, please post.

[— Hammerhead —]

The OEM mud guards look good if you are running wider than stock wheels and tires.

[— Phatmiata —]

I like them on the rear, but not so much on the fronts

[BoBo]

You can't go wrong with the OEM mudflaps, especially with a 1" drop from factory height. Of course, wider wheels would look better, but for now I like to keep it simple.

This is stock ride height without flaps:


This is stock ride height with flaps:


This is with FM springs & mudflaps all around:


Sorry the pics aren't great, but that's all I have for now.

[—Martin—]

I like them on the rear, but not so much on the fronts

I like them on the front, but not on the rear

[Mazdabp26]

11372185_883314928390378_641281876_n(1).jpg Without and with

[speedypenguin]

I like mudflaps on NAs. I like the look especially with a R-pkg rear lip.

[Rogue]

I like the tall ones on the rear, and run fronts to keep the car cleaner.
I remove the wrinkle coat/rock guard from the sides on mine.

[NCGreasemonkey]

Noir only has her rear Tougerun's on now. But I still have to pull my front fenders for the frog-arm install. Why insall the fronts twice?

[etikoner]

I removed mine. I did not like how they looked.

Also don't know if it's a placebo, but it felt like my car had less "drag" on the highway after I removed them.

[smy0003]

There's a couple of different mud-flaps that came on the NA. Mine are the long style ones which were NA8 exclusive:


Not really a fan of the split type mud-flaps that came on the NA6s.

[Rogue]

Not really a fan of the split type mud-flaps that came on the NA6s.

USDM got a short version for NA6.

[wannafbody]

You can find mudflaps on ebay pretty cheap.

[smy0003]

USDM got a short version for NA6.

Makes more sense.
The split ones are pretty awful, looks like no one else got them besides us down in Australia.
Yuck.

[RustRat]

NA6 had the split version in Europe, too