what are spats?

[Nasher]

right guys im new to this forum so some of the lingo you guys speak just confuses me, i am after some wide wheel arches or intend to make some wide wheel arches as my wheels stick out a little i see scottie uses spats but what the hell are they? or if anyone else has any other alternatives to make wheel arches let me know cheers matt

[ScottieJ]

spats are thin plastic/rubber strips that you extend your original arches with like this

[Nasher]

ok mate any ideas where i can get the material from or is it just any old plastic or rubber? i would guess it needs to be flexible?

[ROBBIE]

i made mine from a gardeners trug but you can use just about anything, bin, bucket, conveyor belt, rubber flooring

[ScottieJ]

my original ones were made out of an old lorry wheel arch, cut into 4 strips.

teh ones in the pic are made out of some 8mm thick plastic that a mate of mine got from his work, haven't got a clue what its off though???

[Henry]

I bought 2X atric mud flaps for a trailer. Think they set me back about £17 each! and they are HUGE!

[ferris]

This is the stuff i used http://www.screwfix.com/prods/36622/Bui ... -Pack-of-5

Think alot of other people use this aswel.

[Nasher]

ferris that stuff looks good, how have you fixed it to your vehicle? i still have the original wheel arch bits where the plastic ones fix to on my sj would it fix to there ok?