Lousy hardware
First off, let me say I am a pretty good hands on do it yourself person, so I tackled this install myself. I started with the rears. They went on fairly easy, no issues with the hardware they gave me and getting them on. I thought wow, cool, piece of cake so far. I then moved to the driver front. They had me remove to plastic clips, pitching one and keeping the other for reinstall. I am paging along in the instruction manual and I get to the step where I needed to install some metal piece of hardware and needed a special tool to do this with, which I did not have. I found a way around it and had the install almost done when it came time to replace the clip they had me pitch, with one that came in the hardware bag. It turns out, this one was not long enough and would not hold things in place the way it was supposed to, so I applied some vinyl glue caulk behind it to insure it would stay in place. Move to the passenger side. Same deal, except the metal hardware piece you need the special tool for stripped and broke as I was tightening the supplied screw, so there was a manufacturing defect, imo. I used a couple zip screws and more of the vinyl glue caulk and eventually got everything back together, and feel confident these things aren't going to fly off driving down the highway. Mazda relied to heavily on this insufficient length clips to do the major job of helping to secure the flaps to the vehicle and they need to rethink their install process and provide hardware that are better quality. I would not have paid the dealer to do this even after all this, as the tech would not have had any better luck than I did and would have had to jury rig things as well. I could not recommend these to anyone. Maybe after markets would be better. (These were genuine Mazda flaps).
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