Wheel wheel liner edge scraping?

[Garaged]

The very end of that wheel well liner edge was somehow bent forward and I'm at a loss to think why it happened or how to fix it. I only noticed when there was a horrible scraping noise against the left tire at full left lock/turn.

The picture is after I tried to fold or bend it back in place.

I haven't stuck a camera back there but it does not feel like that last bolt / screw actually snaps into any thing behind that holds the liner in place.

The other side doesn't have that issue at all and seems to sit behind the lower plastic piece. Thoughts on fixing it?

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[superj]

My truck had the same disconected piece in the front driver side when i put my mud flaps on yesterday. I tucked ut behind the mud flap so it wasnt out to catch stuff.


That last inch or two is just there. The screw is the furthest low point that it actually attaches so you will have to force it begind the flap ip or undo the flap and put it back with that liner behind it

 

[Garaged]

My truck had the same disconected piece in the front driver side when i put my mud flaps on yesterday. I tucked ut behind the mud flap so it wasnt out to catch stuff.


That last inch or two is just there. The screw is the furthest low point that it actually attaches so you will have to force it begind the flap ip or undo the flap and put it back with that liner behind it

So the screw actually connects to some hard/static structure behind it?

And the flap removal isn't a major job right?

 

[superj]

The screw went into a small metsl bracket that wasnt super sturdy, it seemed more to just keep it from flapping.

The ud flaps are held in with those plastic screw pins the middle needs to have some thing stuck under one edge while you unscrew it or it never backs out

 

[Garaged]

Turns out that the right side push pin on the fabric/liner part in one of my pictures had straight up fallen out and disappeared. Which then let the edge (which in this case didn't extend past the back of the plastic mud flap) extend outward and (with spacers at full lock) the tire's back was contacting the liner edge.

Like you said, the metal clip was still there, but it was only keeping the two pieces of the liner together - nothing that it was attached to behind. I put in a spare (but not the same design as the Ford one) push pin I had in the missing slot to help.

The only sure way I found of keeping the edge from curling forward again was to zip tie the damn thing through one of the mudflap push pin holes and around the back of the metal clip that kept the liner bits together.

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