Originally Posted by Relic1
hate to put it this way but it's really simple man....
SPLASH GUARD - guards against splash
If you don't have anything you splash through that you don't mind getting everywhere in your engine bay or the potential of your tires picking up little rocks and throwing throwing them into your fender, go for it.
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The trunk in my girlfriends civic gets a couple of inches of water in the spare tire location of the trunk. The car is missing the splash guard on both rear tires, is it possible/likely that the water is splashing up from the tires running into the trunk? I have added extra weather stripping around the trunk lid already.