I noticed that there are no rear wheel well liners on my new Mazda6s. The dealer tells me this is normal. My front wheel wells have a liner, but not the rear. Is this true for everyone? My rear wheel well just has a material basically similar to the carper lining the trunk. The dealer says it is correct, but this just doesn't sound right. Any opinons?
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I live in the Birmingham, AL area. My car is a loaded Mazda6s that was located at an Atlanta area dealer and driven over. Picekd it up last Wednesday night. Pretty happy with it.....except for my concern with the apparent lack of a rear wheel well liner. Thanks for your interest meat6!
I live in the Birmingham, AL area. My car is a loaded Mazda6s that was located at an Atlanta area dealer and driven over. Picekd it up last Wednesday night. Pretty happy with it.....except for my concern with the apparent lack of a rear wheel well liner. Thanks for your interest meat6!
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The felt well liner seems cheap and shoddy. Doesn't make much sense to me. I'm also concerned about it wicking moisture and potentially causing a corrosion problem. Mazda could have done a better job with this.
The felt well liner seems cheap and shoddy. Doesn't make much sense to me. I'm also concerned about it wicking moisture and potentially causing a corrosion problem. Mazda could have done a better job with this.
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LBJay, is your rear wheel well liner the same material as in the front wheel wells? My front is clearly plastic, but the rear is like carpet or felt. Not the kind of material you would normally expose to the elements. To me, it looks like someone forgot to put the liner on the rear. Or perhaps the liner would not fit in the rear with the body add-ons that come with the sport package...so someone decided to "forget" about it. Who knows?
LBJay, is your rear wheel well liner the same material as in the front wheel wells? My front is clearly plastic, but the rear is like carpet or felt. Not the kind of material you would normally expose to the elements. To me, it looks like someone forgot to put the liner on the rear. Or perhaps the liner would not fit in the rear with the body add-ons that come with the sport package...so someone decided to "forget" about it. Who knows?
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The rear on mine is not the same as the front. Looks and feels like the felt-fiber type you described benglish. I don't think Mazda would put a moisture absorbing material for a wheel liner. Must be some kind of sound absorbing material.....
The rear on mine is not the same as the front. Looks and feels like the felt-fiber type you described benglish. I don't think Mazda would put a moisture absorbing material for a wheel liner. Must be some kind of sound absorbing material.....
I just found this old threead, got the same problem - my car's rear wheel well liners unlike the front ones are made from some cheap stuff that was the cause of corrosion on both rear wheel arches. Now after I fixed the corrosion the question is what can be done to prevent it from happening again? I tried searching online for plastic rear wheel well liners with no result. Is there any way that i can topcoat original liners with some sort of rubberized stuff so it doesn't accumulate moisture? Any suggestions would be helpful.
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