Video Transcript for Mount: WeatherTech Mud Flaps on a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado

What's up everybody, I'm here with etrailer. Today, I have a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado, and we're gonna be taking a look at the WeatherTech Custom-Fit Front MudFlaps. So these are gonna either replace your existing mudflaps or just get some mudflaps on your truck. Basically what these are for, is just to protect the truck from scratches and stuff like this. Once it starts to kinda chip away at the paint, whether it's right here or just along this door, eventually that'll start to rust away. And also if you have running boards and stuff, you don't really wanna have rocks and everything coming up and shipping them up and stuff like that.

So this is mainly gonna be for protection, especially if you start getting some wider tires and stuff like that, and a little bit grab aggressive tires, it typically has a lot of room for rocks and stuff. As you can see, there's literally a rock right here, and these as we're going around, you hit bumps and stuff, they're gonna start flying up. So that's basically the bread and butter of mudflaps is just protecting the truck. It does have a custom-fit, which is super awesome. So basically you just put it up to it, and it's gonna use your factory holes, and your factory hardware to get them all mounted up.

It's made of a thermal plastic resin design. So it's gonna be impact resistant, and it's not really gonna fade over time or crack in the cold winter months. One thing that kind of sets these apart from the Husky Liners, which I would definitely compare these two is the backside here. It does have this little bolt, which compared to the other ones, the other ones are just kind of a flat face. So if you're wanting to maybe just, I don't know, maybe just like the looks of this, I don't really think it matters much, at the end of the day, mud flaps are mud flaps, and they're gonna protect the truck.

But if you'd like this look better than the Huskys, then go with these. But at the same, at the same time, they're basically the same thing, made of the same stuff, and they're gonna protect your truck in the same way. First thing you wanna do is clean up the spot where the flaps are gonna go. As you can see the flaps that we had on here before, it's just leaving a lot of debris. So we really wanna clean that up.

Just take whatever you got, soak it real good. And then take like a shop towel or whatever to clean it off. Yikes, so a lot of that was dirt and more of it was just kind of just little mix in size. That's something that we're gonna try to prevent with these flaps. So now that that's done, there is a little sticker that comes in the kit, which will protect this from that happening. They didn't have it on here before, and that's why it looks like that. But basically we're gonna have a whole left-hand side and a right-hand side. You can take a little insert. We're not keeping those on here, so I'm not gonna use this, but basically just put it kinda like right there and that'll just protect all that from happening. So once that's done, we are gonna have to kinda move our wheels around to be able to access all this. So depending on what side you are, it's gonna let you know, where are you gonna need to turn your wheels So once that's done, we just need to remove all of the hardware holding the old mudflap or just our wheel liners in. So get all those out. I took out most of them when we took these off, but there is gonna be a little tab right here. You could do your best, take a tool or a flathead screwdriver, and you know how these are, they just kind of pull out like that. You can pull out the core, and we will use these later. So we just wanna set that to the side for now. And then we can go ahead and I just hold these up and we can use the hardware that we took off before, just to kinda re-install these. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna start with the one I have right next to me. Put that in. And I insert this back in there. And I'm just using the hardware that was here before. I'm not gonna completely tighten them down yet. I'm just gonna get all of them in and then tighten them all at the same exact time. And then for the very last one, which is way in the back right here, one, we're gonna have to turn these wheels to access it. But if you have just a straight through hall, they do give you a screw and a lock nut that you can put through there. And then turn this on on the other side. But with our case today is actually has a threaded hole and there was hardware in there before. So I'm just gonna replace that. But if that's not the case, it does come with one for each side. So now we can just repeat that same exact process for the other side, and that's basically it for the installment. And that'll do it for our look at the WeatherTech Custom-Fit Front MudFlaps on our 2012 Chevrolet Silverado..