Bit of a strange question this but anyway.
Forgetting about the SVA, does anyone know what the minimum tyre coverage with a mud guard a car in the UK needs to be legal? I’m thinking of tall
skinny cross plys with tiny cycle wings btw and its not a 7 and only for an MOT
cheers
unsure if this is any help, but for the new IVA the wheel guards need to be the following- front can't be more then 30 degress off centre, and
rear 50 degress.
Whether the MOT follow suit, who knows!!!
I think you must cover all of the tyre's width when viewed from above and behind, and the forward edge of the front of the wing must be no further back than the wheel rim. I don't know how far back the wing must cover.
i believe it needs to cover the width of the tyre looking from the top, and looking from the side it needs to extand down the back so its level with a centre line coming horizontaly from the centre of the wheel, and as far forward as if you have a centre line going vertically from the centre of the wheel
I was trying to avoid any SVA/IVA noncense by using an old chassis and some spare running gear to build an ugly little hot rod. Just don't want to get pulled over with bare wheels
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Originally posted by Davey D
i believe it needs to cover the width of the tyre looking from the top, and looking from the side it needs to extand down the back so its level with a centre line coming horizontaly from the centre of the wheel, and as far forward as if you have a centre line going vertically from the centre of the wheel
Sorry to ask another question on this post, but is there any reason you can not use an old tyre as a guard - so it seems to blend in with the actual
tyre.
If you re-enforced the back with some fibre glass, or something. I just remember seeing a car on Top Gear that had guards that looked like tyres -
unsure how they made them
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Originally posted by m8kwr
Sorry to ask another question on this post, but is there any reason you can not use an old tyre as a guard - so it seems to blend in with the actual tyre.
If you re-enforced the back with some fibre glass, or something. I just remember seeing a car on Top Gear that had guards that looked like tyres - unsure how they made them
If you go that route, then please post a picture, i would be very interested to know how it looks - and the overall weight compared to a standard
fibre glass one.
Depending on what tyres you are using, i'm sure someone on here would have some old R888 that are not longer legal which would probably look the
best.
Here you go:
Based on my experiments with using bits of old tyre as mudflaps, I would say:
a) they will need a bit of stiffening
b) they will be considerably heavier than fibreglass.
However, it would look good as an "open wheel" look.
Simon
Edit... or how about making a mould from a tyre then creating fibreglass arches from the mould? You would get the look without the weight, even more
so if you sprayed it with that matt black chipguard stuff
[Edited on 19.11.2008 by Humbug]
looks not too bad really
The Scamp has been MOTed for 6 years with about 30mm of front tyre visible beyond the chassis widthways, maybe depends on the MOT man
If you made a fake tyre you could make it go almost all the way round & get the areo improvement from it without the ugly looks!
(and if your cycle wing brackets ever broke, you've got a fraction more chance of having some grip 
)
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Originally posted by MikeR
If you made a fake tyre you could make it go almost all the way round & get the areo improvement from it without the ugly looks!
(and if your cycle wing brackets ever broke, you've got a fraction more chance of having some grip
would look weird
maybe fit some wheel trims that remain still too....
just completely cover the wheels it would look cool but then you would have totake it off when you wash it is it possible to pu tthe front ones close to the front and put some fins on to improve the aerodynamics