Rear door panel damage from front tyre

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Poor design again from Porsche, they already know that stones lifted by the front tyres on the macan models damage the rear edge of the rear doors, I was even told this by my dealer when I bought my Macan S, which also suffers from this poor design, I have protective vinyl fitted to these areas from new but already showing heavy stonechip rash after a month old.

My question is, has anyone fitted splash guards to the front and if so does it eliminate the rear door panel damage?
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Just out of interest, what size wheels are you running? My Macan is just over four years old and just under 40k miles and not a mark on the rear doors. My summer wheels are 20" and the winters 18".
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First chip on my ‘16 GTS on 20’s a few weeks ago but we were travelling down an unmade track to a riding stable...

I remember a service action on 2010 Skoda Yeti was to stick a “foil” (PPF) on the rear arches....
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fabmacan wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:55 pm Poor design again from Porsche, they already know that stones lifted by the front tyres on the macan models damage the rear edge of the rear doors, I was even told this by my dealer when I bought my Macan S, which also suffers from this poor design, I have protective vinyl fitted to these areas from new but already showing heavy stonechip rash after a month old.

My question is, has anyone fitted splash guards to the front and if so does it eliminate the rear door panel damage?
Do you mean mud flaps? I haven’t but some on here have so maybe they will comment. I don’t have any stone damage in 12k miles fortunately but councils around here have been dumping chippings on the roads lately and I try to keep the speed right down when I encounter this abomination of resurfacing.
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Nuclear Nick wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:13 pm
fabmacan wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:55 pm Poor design again from Porsche, they already know that stones lifted by the front tyres on the macan models damage the rear edge of the rear doors, I was even told this by my dealer when I bought my Macan S, which also suffers from this poor design, I have protective vinyl fitted to these areas from new but already showing heavy stonechip rash after a month old.

My question is, has anyone fitted splash guards to the front and if so does it eliminate the rear door panel damage?
Do you mean mud flaps? I haven’t but some on here have so maybe they will comment. I don’t have any stone damage in 12k miles fortunately but councils around here have been dumping chippings on the roads lately and I try to keep the speed right down when I encounter this abomination of resurfacing.
+1 and have covered 30K on 20s. And as above I go very, very carefully over chippings recently or particularly in the process of being laid.

Had a horrible experience in France last September when I came across some work in progress and some drivers going the other way were flying like bats and throwing stones all over the shop. :( Remarkably escaped without incident. :roll:
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21 inch wheels fitted
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On-Track wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:50 pm Just out of interest, what size wheels are you running? My Macan is just over four years old and just under 40k miles and not a mark on the rear doors. My summer wheels are 20" and the winters 18".
21 inch wheels fitted, the front wheels/tyres seem to offer no protection to the rear door panels just before the rear wheel arches, with the rears having a wider track they are in the firing line to anything picked up by the front tyres, 265/40/21 on front and 295/35/21 on rears.
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Hi Fabmacan
I had this problem, not so much on the rear doors but on the side blades.
I fitted mud flaps as a few others on here have and this solved the matter.
If you wish I can post pictures to let you see what they look like.
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added running boards and mud flaps (painted to match the car) works a treat 40000 + miles and still nice

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No issues on our 2016 SD with 60+k miles on it.
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