I bought the front and rear splash guards for my graphite luster metallic. I installed them today. I've always like the looks of splash guards to add a little extra to the wheel well areas.

Front ones are easy. They do have one of those "center pop out" clips on each side you have to remove and put back. Not incredibly difficult, but they aren't exactly easy to reach/see to remove. I had to do it by feel.

Rear ones are a pain, mostly because of the tightly spaced area in which you have to work. There's a center screw you have to add when installing the additional bracket -- it's the most difficult of the screws to insert. One thing I did notice as a result of the rear install. Without the splash guards in place, the rear wheel well liner just kind of hangs freely / flaps just behind the rear wheel -- there's nothing attaching it to anything. Never noticed this before, but never really have had a reason to either. But the addition of the rear splash guards secures the liner and stiffens the liner fit -- makes it appear and feel more "finished".

Sorry -- didn't take any piictures...car isn't clean enough. Will post some if anyone is interested, tho.

 

Interested for sure. I'm picking up my V6 Tech in GLM on Tuesday night and I already ordered splash guards as part of my $500 accessory allowance. I kind of thought they'd dress it up in a very subtle way and maybe help keep road splash under control.

 

In case anyone needs to reference the installation instructions.
https://acurazine.com/forums/fifth-g...ctions-914499/

 

I got them on mine as well (not that I ordered them, that is a thread in in itself!) and I could totally see how it would be a pain to get them on.

 

If you get the chance, please post pics. Especially if it's a white car. For now I've talked myself out of getting them even though I've had them on my last 2 cars, and you're making it sound like they're more of a pain in the butt to install than I thought it could be.

 

I am GLM as well not white, but I plan to take pics soon.

 

I'll try to snap a few pics on Sunday. I have GLM, tho, not white.

The installation can be done by anyone who's "handy", and has a good assortment of phillips screwdrivers - you definitely need a "stubby" one. The first front (driver side) I did went really fast -- less than 10 minutes. The passenger side took about 20 -- I had trouble releasing the clip I mentioned.

The first rear (driver) took me probably 30 minutes. I was having a major struggle getting that center screw started, and I accidentally didn't put the bottom portion of the splash guard above & inside the fender bottom (I left it hanging where the screw clip was below and visible...stupid, so I had to remove it and then re-attach). The passenger rear took me about 15 minutes.

So in terms of time overall it wasn't pain. It's just that the tight confines of it all makes it a pain. Being 6'4" didn't help matters. If I had a 2nd TLX to do, I'd wager I could do all four in less than an hour now that I've done a set.

 

Sounds like it would be much easier if you pull the rear wheels off to have that extra room. If you can't pull the wheels then get a special philips that looks like a bent pencil with tips on the ends ( ^-----v ). Those work pretty well.

Clearance was tight even with our Honda Pilot for the rears.

 

Here are few pictures I took earlier today. Hope they help give you

the visual you are looking for...

 

That color looks really good in this car. Narrowing my choice between black and graphite

 

I could never be able to keep a black car clean... At least with the GLM, it can "look" clean when it's technically not. I owned a black car once; I swore I'd never go that route again.

I will admit though -- a black car when it's clean does look amazing!! (and so does Graphite Luster Metallic!)

 

I have the rears but not the fronts. I think they look great when they are installed. Well be purchasing a set here soon.

 

Off topic but.. what Tint % are your windows? Thanks.

 

It's 30% all around. I have had good experience with Llumar tint products, so I stayed with the brand and a local Denver tint place I've done business with before. CTX30 it is (it's a ceramic tint).

And, off-topic for me: Denver got hail today. My TLX has lots and lots of little dents scattered across it. Off to repair it will go....

 

Very sorry to hear about the hail... You seem in much better spirits than I would be. Hail is a common concern here in Dallas.

Keith

 

a good time to put the mud guards on is the first tire rotation

 

Dent Doctor should be able to pop out all the dents and restore the finish perfectly without the need for repaint, and it should be covered by your insurance.

 

Yeah...I filed the claim and am having it estimated Wednesday morning. I doubt any re-painting will need to be done. On the schedule for a reputable body shop as well, but it's four weeks out. Denver repair shops (including the PDR ones) are all still catching up from the hail storm we got in the early summer/late spring. I'm still looking for places to have it repaired, but I'm at least in the interim on the schedule for one solid reputable places. I may post a separate thread on the results of the estimation with some pictures of the damage.

And Keith (kmelkild), I'm trying my best to be in better spirits. Just trying to stay above it -- no sense getting ticket off or stressed. Was totally out of my control. I'm pretty OCD when it comes to my car, tho. The dents will drive me bonkers for the next four weeks.

 

I feel it for you. Hang in there!

 

Hate to thread jack, but still don't understand why there's that (microscopically) wavy line in the side rocker panel. It's not even a styling crease, more like the bottom and top halves of the skirt were glued together, or a long piece of tape carelessly applied to its lower edge. And to think they even bragged about how this was "one-piece for a cleaner look" in one of the TLX intro videos Nice car and color choice otherwise

 

That line you refer to is the Anti Chip heavy flex paint most better auto makers use to protect the lower rocker areas from rock and stone chipping.

Years ago it was an extra cost option on some US luxury cars (Lincoln). Now it is standard on most of the better cars. VW and Audi have used it for decades.