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MG MGB Technical - Front Wheel Arch Protectors

Hi,

Has anyone had experience with the plastic front wheel arch protectors that can be bought from Moss, MGOC and such like. They seem to be a good idea, but how are they in use?

Cheers, David (currently living in the UK. For the weather of course!)
David JM

I fitted a pair to my '66 GT 7 years ago. Bit fiddly to fit and I found I needed to drill into the wheel arch lip to secure properly. However, I took the liner on the offside off a couple of years ago to get to the other side of the fitting for the ignition coil and the inside of the wheel arch was lovely and clean. Well worth it in my opinion (even though they're pretty expensive for what they are).

At the time I asked why you couldn't get liners for the rear and was told it wasn't necessary. Not sure I see why it's particularly more necessary on the front but it's certainly easier to clean under the arch with the liner than without.

Cheers,
Tim
T Jenner

absolutely recommended for a daily driver...If the factory put these on we would have twice as many mgb's still on the road...As most know the mgb has a shelf up behind the front wheels (wheel arch brace) that is perfectly designed to catch mud and water which will eventually work its way through and to the inside of the sills, not to mention what happens when the access panel rubber seal deteriorates...

Sourced mine from VB five years ago..As Tim said, required quite a bit of fiddling to get them on correctly with only 2 hands...once on, fit perfectly, never rub

Suggestions: rotate them slightly backward so that there they hang down below the rear of the wheel arch (2cm) forming a tiny mudflap, keeping splashes off of the front outside sill. This works well.

Downsides: holes required in the lip of the wheel arch. The supplied washers hung over a bit and were visible so must be trimmed off a bit to make them flat on one side. I don't have pictures but if someone is interested I could take one. I am very happy with the quality...maybe all suppliers have the same but mine are made in England + have some big letters (KB??)in the molding.
jjralston

sorry on the post above...just noticed I put that 'I am happy with the quality' in the downsides...it should be by itself...as obviously it is not a downside.
jjralston

I bought a pair some years ago and found them unbelievably fiddly to fit. I concluded that to fit them scurely would mean screwing into the wheelarch lip and as I wasn't prepared to do that they languished in the shed until I moved house and then they went to the dump. Lots of Waxoil and regular cleaning out of the mud traps seems to work for me, and my wheelarch lips remain pristine.
Miles Banister

When fitting them leave them out in the sun so they are pliable, still a pain fitting but worthit as a daily car.
K Harris

I put them in my roadster. They didn't fit too well around the wheel arch and were always visible, especially as it was a white car. But they do a wonderful job of keeping the crap off the metal and preventing the dreaded rust both above the headlamp and above the inner wing reinforcement.
Has anyone ever put them in a V8 with the headers coming through the inner wing as on the RV8?
Mike Howlett

These inner fenders have always looked interesting and I am sure they will protect quite effectively.
As my 'B' is a daily driver and roads around here are pure crap to put it mildly,my question is ,are screws necessary in the installation of these protectors.
Can they not be fastened some other way in the wheel well?
Cheers
Jon Rosenthall

This thread was discussed between 20/05/2008 and 28/05/2008

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