**The Creation of a Rally-Inspired Flap System**

When it comes to customizing our vehicles, few modifications can make as big an impact as installing a new set of mud flaps. For this project, we're taking inspiration from rally racing and creating a unique flap system that not only looks cool but also provides a functional solution for keeping debris out of the way.

**The Process Begins**

We started by cutting out holes in our existing flaps to accommodate the new design. This was a necessary step to ensure that the flaps would still provide adequate protection without compromising their functionality. "It's just so fiddly and all kind of backpack we'll cut out a hole for this," I said, as we carefully made the necessary adjustments.

**The Self-Tapper: A Game-Changer**

Next, we turned our attention to the self-tappers – small metal pieces that would help us install the new bolts. "Screw in you can do it single-handed now you know that's looking very cool from here," I said, as we began to attach these tiny marvels to the back of the car. The self-tappers proved to be a game-changer in this process, allowing us to securely fasten the bolts without having to rely on external tools.

**Measuring and Aligning**

One of the most critical steps in this project was ensuring that the new flaps would measure up to our expectations. We spent a considerable amount of time measuring the existing flaps and double-checking that they were aligned properly – a process that required 50 different measurements, just to be sure.

**The Big Moment: Installation**

Finally, it was time to put everything together. With the new bolts in place, we carefully installed the flaps and secured them with the self-tappers. As we worked, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement – this was going to look good. "I think it's gonna look so cool from the back right dude," I said, as I gazed at our handiwork.

**A Little Nudge: Measuring the Wheels**

Before putting everything on display, we needed to make sure that the wheels would sit properly in their new flaps. We measured the car thoroughly to ensure that everything was aligned correctly – a process that required patience and attention to detail. "I reckon that is just looking oh it's gonna look so good from the back right dude," I said, as we double-checked our measurements.

**A Touch of Class: Tidy Up Bolts**

To complete our project, we added a few extra touches – some anodized washers and new screws to tidy up the engine bay. These little extras would make our car look "funky and color-coded," according to me. "It's just exactly what I had in mind," I said, as we installed these finishing touches.

**The Final Touches: Air Box and Intake**

Finally, we added two spare air boxes – ones that wouldn't be needed with the new venturi intake system. We also installed a few extra bolts to secure everything in place. "It's just exactly what I had in mind," I said, as we finished off our project.

**The Finished Product: A Rally-Inspired Flap System**

And so, after countless measurements, hours of installation, and a few finishing touches, our rally-inspired flap system was finally complete. As we gazed at our handiwork, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride – this was going to look good.

**Personal Touches: MW UK and Petrified**

I'd like to take a moment to thank those who supported me throughout this project – my friends, family, and the entire mini community. If you're on the south coast and need any car work done, be sure to check out my business, MW UK. And if you haven't already, please subscribe to Petrified for plenty more content to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to petrol ped and welcome to a video i've been wanting to shoot for quite some time now you may well remember shortly after i had my new wheels and tires fitted to my clubman behind me there i did a video and there was lots of comments about the arch gap being too big and i said like i can't really drop the car because of what i use the car for but i do have an idea to try and make it better well today finally we're going to see if we can make it better because i am a massive massive rally fan so today i'm going to be fitting rally mud flaps to my clubman the only slight challenge is nobody makes rally mud flaps for an f54 clubman but i know someone who can help me now then before we head off and get some rally flaps fitted i want to talk to you about what's in this box now i've wanted to get my hands on one of these for quite some time and i'm really chuffed to be working with carly to bring you more information about this what's in it i hear you cry well it's one of these this is an obd reader it's basically a diagnostics tool so i can plug this into the car and i can run system diagnostics to get fault codes but i can also go into the car and unlock hidden features and it's really easy to use basically you need to plug this into the obd port now in this car that's just down there and actually the best way to access it is to just open the door it's got a little plastic cover on it which just unclips and then you basically just plug that into the obd reader so it's quite straightforward and then i can actually close the door and then you need to switch the car on oh sounds good doesn't it and then you need to download an app on your phone now i'm not going to go this through this in real time but what the app does the app talks to the dongle the dongle talks to the car and then you can unlock a whole range of different very cool features now what you can unlock and what you can do with the car very much depends on what manufacturer of car you have now it just so happens that bmw and mini are really very good at being unlocked but this works with a whole range of other manufacturers as well so you can run a systems diagnostic check now i've already done one of those because it does take quite a long time to kind of read through and it came up with quite a lot of fault codes but this car is actually due for a service in about 500 miles so um i kind of knew it might have a few and i also knew it would have two because the side indicators that i put on last week um although they're still working absolutely fine the the clicker noise that you hear when you turn left and right has speeded up and that apparently is an indicator that uh it the car thinks the bulb's about to go which is not because it's an led bulb so i should have fault codes for that uh and i found them and then i'm also able to clear those fault codes so when you clear a fault code the car actually takes or can take a couple of days to properly clear the code so the app basically suggests that you go back two or three days later and run a system diagnostic check again now only cleared those fault codes today so i don't know whether they've worked completely but then you can go in and unlock hidden features now again i could probably do a video on this that lasted like half an hour there's so much stuff the best thing to do is if you go to the kali website you can type in your make a model of car and it will tell you the kind of things that you can unlock and you can change things from internal ambient lighting there's a whole range of different displays and uh and things that you can have on the car and then it's also got a used car checker which i think is a really nice feature so if you were buying a car you can take the um the dongle along plug it into the car and it will tell you what the mileage should be on the car so you can see if basically the mileage has been tampered with you can look at the driver history or if you like how the car's been driven to avoid you buying a dog basically so really really cool little uh feature now what i've been able to do is um we've got a discount code for the next month now you need to do a couple of things first things first you need to buy one of these dongles now i'll put a link in the description of this video and also in a pin comment and just click on the link that will take you through to the kali website and you need to buy one of these now the cost of these will depend on where you live in the uk they're just under 65 pounds plus shipping and then you need to download the app to your smartphone there's a an ios and android version available when you first download the app it will give you some limited features but to unlock all the really cool stuff you need to buy a license and you can either buy a license just for your car or you can buy a license for all the cars that carly deal with and that's it it's super simple so i thought you'd like that i mean i'm i haven't really had the chance to play with this uh a lot there's so many things i can do sadly i'm on a really tight time scale today and we need to crack on but i know i'm going to be playing with this over the weekend but if you're interested all the details that you need are in the description below and remember use petrol ped as a discount code from we've got that valid for the next month but for now it's enough about carly put it back in its box um we are now going to head over and get some rally flaps fitted to this car i have a feeling it's going to look absolutely awesome now that i am super lucky that just a short drive from my house in fact 15 minutes i reckon i've got one of the south coast's best mini specialists mwuk these guys or jack here looks after ruby roadster and does a brilliant job so when i thought about getting rally flaps fitted to the clubman i did a bit of research quickly found out that they don't make the kind of flaps that i want on the clubman so i thought i know i'll go to the best motorsport website there is demon tweaks and buy some generic sparco rally mudflaps and then check the problem to see if he can fit them so what we're going to do first of all while the car's on the flap is just measure out the where the positioning of them because as soon as it goes on the lift to get access into the arches the wheels are going to drop and it's difficult to do the measuring up on the lift and then we've got to work out how we're actually going to physically attach them to the car but i have a feeling red rally mudflaps i just think she's going to look wicked now then everybody there's the main man so is this going to be easy or difficult to think uh it should be fairly straightforward i reckon about tweaking maybe here and there but the songs that are not all right it should be should be fairly straightforward i reckon cool so first thing we've got to work out the positioning because i can't understand there are companies out there that do rally flaps for road cars but nobody does one so they're clubbing so the mini minis actually makes some kind of mud flap it's like a trim that actually bolts on for like the first and second gens yeah which i've had to fit quite a few but they're literally you know a couple poppy pins and there you go these are a bit more we want something a bit more proper yeah but we don't what i don't want is i don't know little angle brackets and things that you'd have on a proper rally car i don't want to spoil that outside trim really these should be fairly straightforward just kind of bend them where you want them a few self-tappers into the trim yeah maybe if you you know go through some of the original clips and uh good see that's why i came to you right so we're going to start with the rears first the other thing to say by the way is i washed this car literally about an hour ago and i've only driven 15 minutes it's filthy already so we're going to start off positioning the rear ones first so first thing we're going to just position them they have got a dull side and a shiny side the other thing about these they are just sparkles if you like generic flaps so you you can trim the material i think they make them oversized more than that yeah probably yeah about there i think yeah because that's in line with the wheel and then at the bottom so if you want less than that obviously we'll have to trim the top and suck them up a bit i think i think that's probably right any higher than that up in here you want them long enough so that they look like rally flaps but not too long so they foul on curbs and things and get ripped off i think that looks good i think that should be enough to be honest if anything they might um you know if they rub a bit they'll just kind of hang back anyway oh when they hang back when you're driving along as well yeah okay well um so no trimming then excellent and no trimming on the front happy days uh fronts now the big thing about the fronts as well is this that vent just there and you get all kinds of stones and stuff so that this is going to stop that come down a bit yeah probably as far down as we can go yeah and we probably got just under five centimeters below cool that's all right the main thing is that the the side bit the side bit in that event bit just stopping that okay he's gonna look wicked cool good out so you know where they got to go so we know we don't need to trigger anything what's nice is there's that continuation of the little lip on the actual arch itself i quite like the bit that's going to be crucial too yeah to line up but i think we'll do that point first and then you can kind of set it where you want it so cool one main mounting point up in the top plastic trim yeah and obviously where it follows down we'll probably use one here and here just to secure it nicely on the outside these carpet bits will obviously leave out the way probably go into here yeah we can't use any of these points really because they're too too fiddly and all kind of backpack we'll cut out a hole for this just so if it needs to be removed yeah and that should be good to go awesome screw in you can do it single-handed now you know that's looking very cool from here so these self-tappers are going into the so they go through the plastic trim yeah uh well so this one's perfect trimmer only this one's perfect trivially then through here there's two plastic layers yeah uh yeah it's just true yeah that that is just looking oh it's gonna look so good from the back right dude so what you where are you gonna anchor on the rear there aren't that many points here so i'm gonna try and reuse this fitting here i can use this bit here but everything else is going to be carpet so we're going to put quite a few through in on the other side like you did that's very secure so that should be good cool all right i'll leave you to it first thing i guess is just to make sure it measures and the fronts aren't so bad if they're not quite as aligned as each other but these are definitely because you follow the car and you can see if they're not straight he's got one kid yeah where did he get his mud flaps done yeah i hope he didn't yeah exactly don't tell him it was me if they're wonky now then the big thing at the moment is just making sure that the right one ends up looking exactly the same angle when you're following the car as the left one because the front you'll never really compare so much but the backs when you're kind of following the car along i'm so excited i think this will look so cool so i think we've measured about 50 times just to check it's okay but it's looking good rumble rumble now the moment of truth because when you've got it up on jacks or off on a lift you don't really know exactly how the wheels are gonna sit and we've measured it and measured it but hopefully he's teasing me i reckon that is that's just spawn nice awesome have a look at it from back here oh look at that now the model here mate can i get you to fit something for me so i've got these really cool tidy up bolts from snps 2012 uh sent to me when i did the side repeater so if you haven't seen the video already uh check out the video where i fitted these um but sadly i didn't have my uh proper tool kit with me because i'd left it in cornwall so while i'm here i thought i'd get a pro to fit it just in case because you'll talk it up properly and know where all the bolts go and everything indeed so basically this little tidy up kit is just a set of anodized washers and new screws to make your engine bay look funky and color-coded basically and just make it look nice certainly kind of shows off that nice eventually intake very cool and the last one let's go in we've got these two spare because we don't have an air box because i've got the venturi intake i just think that looks absolutely wicked yep very pleased with that it's just exactly what i had in mind yes very cool very cool indeed now then you sir all right genius thank you yeah we're fresh better it's good though by the way that's uh jack's car there and we're quite well known in the mini community yeah yeah actually it's been in the prominence movie magazine a couple times that's what i've done i've come to think about i'm in performance mini magazine this month so you're running what's that three hundred and three ten three ten so that little r56 is actually more powerful than that yeah but yes yeah now i'm going to put all the details of uh mw uk in the in the description below if you are on the south coast and need your car looking after you do servicing and stuff but you do anything really modifications and modifications remaps bodywork you know mud flaps the new one yeah mud flaps you just buy buy your sparkle mud flaps from uh demon tweaks and bring them here and jack will fit it for you i mentioned a petroleum just going on the fitting there you go another discount code anyway guys i would love to know what you think of my rally inspired flaps but i'm so i think it looks wicked anyway guys i hope you enjoyed that one if you have done so please give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrified for plenty more content to come and i shall see you on the next video and uh yeah dead chuffed with that you take care guys drive safe youhey guys and welcome to petrol ped and welcome to a video i've been wanting to shoot for quite some time now you may well remember shortly after i had my new wheels and tires fitted to my clubman behind me there i did a video and there was lots of comments about the arch gap being too big and i said like i can't really drop the car because of what i use the car for but i do have an idea to try and make it better well today finally we're going to see if we can make it better because i am a massive massive rally fan so today i'm going to be fitting rally mud flaps to my clubman the only slight challenge is nobody makes rally mud flaps for an f54 clubman but i know someone who can help me now then before we head off and get some rally flaps fitted i want to talk to you about what's in this box now i've wanted to get my hands on one of these for quite some time and i'm really chuffed to be working with carly to bring you more information about this what's in it i hear you cry well it's one of these this is an obd reader it's basically a diagnostics tool so i can plug this into the car and i can run system diagnostics to get fault codes but i can also go into the car and unlock hidden features and it's really easy to use basically you need to plug this into the obd port now in this car that's just down there and actually the best way to access it is to just open the door it's got a little plastic cover on it which just unclips and then you basically just plug that into the obd reader so it's quite straightforward and then i can actually close the door and then you need to switch the car on oh sounds good doesn't it and then you need to download an app on your phone now i'm not going to go this through this in real time but what the app does the app talks to the dongle the dongle talks to the car and then you can unlock a whole range of different very cool features now what you can unlock and what you can do with the car very much depends on what manufacturer of car you have now it just so happens that bmw and mini are really very good at being unlocked but this works with a whole range of other manufacturers as well so you can run a systems diagnostic check now i've already done one of those because it does take quite a long time to kind of read through and it came up with quite a lot of fault codes but this car is actually due for a service in about 500 miles so um i kind of knew it might have a few and i also knew it would have two because the side indicators that i put on last week um although they're still working absolutely fine the the clicker noise that you hear when you turn left and right has speeded up and that apparently is an indicator that uh it the car thinks the bulb's about to go which is not because it's an led bulb so i should have fault codes for that uh and i found them and then i'm also able to clear those fault codes so when you clear a fault code the car actually takes or can take a couple of days to properly clear the code so the app basically suggests that you go back two or three days later and run a system diagnostic check again now only cleared those fault codes today so i don't know whether they've worked completely but then you can go in and unlock hidden features now again i could probably do a video on this that lasted like half an hour there's so much stuff the best thing to do is if you go to the kali website you can type in your make a model of car and it will tell you the kind of things that you can unlock and you can change things from internal ambient lighting there's a whole range of different displays and uh and things that you can have on the car and then it's also got a used car checker which i think is a really nice feature so if you were buying a car you can take the um the dongle along plug it into the car and it will tell you what the mileage should be on the car so you can see if basically the mileage has been tampered with you can look at the driver history or if you like how the car's been driven to avoid you buying a dog basically so really really cool little uh feature now what i've been able to do is um we've got a discount code for the next month now you need to do a couple of things first things first you need to buy one of these dongles now i'll put a link in the description of this video and also in a pin comment and just click on the link that will take you through to the kali website and you need to buy one of these now the cost of these will depend on where you live in the uk they're just under 65 pounds plus shipping and then you need to download the app to your smartphone there's a an ios and android version available when you first download the app it will give you some limited features but to unlock all the really cool stuff you need to buy a license and you can either buy a license just for your car or you can buy a license for all the cars that carly deal with and that's it it's super simple so i thought you'd like that i mean i'm i haven't really had the chance to play with this uh a lot there's so many things i can do sadly i'm on a really tight time scale today and we need to crack on but i know i'm going to be playing with this over the weekend but if you're interested all the details that you need are in the description below and remember use petrol ped as a discount code from we've got that valid for the next month but for now it's enough about carly put it back in its box um we are now going to head over and get some rally flaps fitted to this car i have a feeling it's going to look absolutely awesome now that i am super lucky that just a short drive from my house in fact 15 minutes i reckon i've got one of the south coast's best mini specialists mwuk these guys or jack here looks after ruby roadster and does a brilliant job so when i thought about getting rally flaps fitted to the clubman i did a bit of research quickly found out that they don't make the kind of flaps that i want on the clubman so i thought i know i'll go to the best motorsport website there is demon tweaks and buy some generic sparco rally mudflaps and then check the problem to see if he can fit them so what we're going to do first of all while the car's on the flap is just measure out the where the positioning of them because as soon as it goes on the lift to get access into the arches the wheels are going to drop and it's difficult to do the measuring up on the lift and then we've got to work out how we're actually going to physically attach them to the car but i have a feeling red rally mudflaps i just think she's going to look wicked now then everybody there's the main man so is this going to be easy or difficult to think uh it should be fairly straightforward i reckon about tweaking maybe here and there but the songs that are not all right it should be should be fairly straightforward i reckon cool so first thing we've got to work out the positioning because i can't understand there are companies out there that do rally flaps for road cars but nobody does one so they're clubbing so the mini minis actually makes some kind of mud flap it's like a trim that actually bolts on for like the first and second gens yeah which i've had to fit quite a few but they're literally you know a couple poppy pins and there you go these are a bit more we want something a bit more proper yeah but we don't what i don't want is i don't know little angle brackets and things that you'd have on a proper rally car i don't want to spoil that outside trim really these should be fairly straightforward just kind of bend them where you want them a few self-tappers into the trim yeah maybe if you you know go through some of the original clips and uh good see that's why i came to you right so we're going to start with the rears first the other thing to say by the way is i washed this car literally about an hour ago and i've only driven 15 minutes it's filthy already so we're going to start off positioning the rear ones first so first thing we're going to just position them they have got a dull side and a shiny side the other thing about these they are just sparkles if you like generic flaps so you you can trim the material i think they make them oversized more than that yeah probably yeah about there i think yeah because that's in line with the wheel and then at the bottom so if you want less than that obviously we'll have to trim the top and suck them up a bit i think i think that's probably right any higher than that up in here you want them long enough so that they look like rally flaps but not too long so they foul on curbs and things and get ripped off i think that looks good i think that should be enough to be honest if anything they might um you know if they rub a bit they'll just kind of hang back anyway oh when they hang back when you're driving along as well yeah okay well um so no trimming then excellent and no trimming on the front happy days uh fronts now the big thing about the fronts as well is this that vent just there and you get all kinds of stones and stuff so that this is going to stop that come down a bit yeah probably as far down as we can go yeah and we probably got just under five centimeters below cool that's all right the main thing is that the the side bit the side bit in that event bit just stopping that okay he's gonna look wicked cool good out so you know where they got to go so we know we don't need to trigger anything what's nice is there's that continuation of the little lip on the actual arch itself i quite like the bit that's going to be crucial too yeah to line up but i think we'll do that point first and then you can kind of set it where you want it so cool one main mounting point up in the top plastic trim yeah and obviously where it follows down we'll probably use one here and here just to secure it nicely on the outside these carpet bits will obviously leave out the way probably go into here yeah we can't use any of these points really because they're too too fiddly and all kind of backpack we'll cut out a hole for this just so if it needs to be removed yeah and that should be good to go awesome screw in you can do it single-handed now you know that's looking very cool from here so these self-tappers are going into the so they go through the plastic trim yeah uh well so this one's perfect trimmer only this one's perfect trivially then through here there's two plastic layers yeah uh yeah it's just true yeah that that is just looking oh it's gonna look so good from the back right dude so what you where are you gonna anchor on the rear there aren't that many points here so i'm gonna try and reuse this fitting here i can use this bit here but everything else is going to be carpet so we're going to put quite a few through in on the other side like you did that's very secure so that should be good cool all right i'll leave you to it first thing i guess is just to make sure it measures and the fronts aren't so bad if they're not quite as aligned as each other but these are definitely because you follow the car and you can see if they're not straight he's got one kid yeah where did he get his mud flaps done yeah i hope he didn't yeah exactly don't tell him it was me if they're wonky now then the big thing at the moment is just making sure that the right one ends up looking exactly the same angle when you're following the car as the left one because the front you'll never really compare so much but the backs when you're kind of following the car along i'm so excited i think this will look so cool so i think we've measured about 50 times just to check it's okay but it's looking good rumble rumble now the moment of truth because when you've got it up on jacks or off on a lift you don't really know exactly how the wheels are gonna sit and we've measured it and measured it but hopefully he's teasing me i reckon that is that's just spawn nice awesome have a look at it from back here oh look at that now the model here mate can i get you to fit something for me so i've got these really cool tidy up bolts from snps 2012 uh sent to me when i did the side repeater so if you haven't seen the video already uh check out the video where i fitted these um but sadly i didn't have my uh proper tool kit with me because i'd left it in cornwall so while i'm here i thought i'd get a pro to fit it just in case because you'll talk it up properly and know where all the bolts go and everything indeed so basically this little tidy up kit is just a set of anodized washers and new screws to make your engine bay look funky and color-coded basically and just make it look nice certainly kind of shows off that nice eventually intake very cool and the last one let's go in we've got these two spare because we don't have an air box because i've got the venturi intake i just think that looks absolutely wicked yep very pleased with that it's just exactly what i had in mind yes very cool very cool indeed now then you sir all right genius thank you yeah we're fresh better it's good though by the way that's uh jack's car there and we're quite well known in the mini community yeah yeah actually it's been in the prominence movie magazine a couple times that's what i've done i've come to think about i'm in performance mini magazine this month so you're running what's that three hundred and three ten three ten so that little r56 is actually more powerful than that yeah but yes yeah now i'm going to put all the details of uh mw uk in the in the description below if you are on the south coast and need your car looking after you do servicing and stuff but you do anything really modifications and modifications remaps bodywork you know mud flaps the new one yeah mud flaps you just buy buy your sparkle mud flaps from uh demon tweaks and bring them here and jack will fit it for you i mentioned a petroleum just going on the fitting there you go another discount code anyway guys i would love to know what you think of my rally inspired flaps but i'm so i think it looks wicked anyway guys i hope you enjoyed that one if you have done so please give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrified for plenty more content to come and i shall see you on the next video and uh yeah dead chuffed with that you take care guys drive safe you\n"