- Fits model years 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 and 2011
- Complete set of 4 - 2 front and 2 rear
- No Drilling Required
- Genuine Honda Original Factory OEM Accessory
Once installed, the splash guards look great. However, getting them installed wasn't quite the 30-minute job I expected it to be--particularly the rear one. Before you do it, make sure you know what you're getting yourself into.
First, make sure you have a short, stubby, phillips screwdriver with a good, deep bite, for letting you work in tight places. That, plenty of light, and making sure the wheels are turned toward the side you're working on are all you'll need to install the front pair of splash guards. They're a snap--pretty much just driving three screws (each) into place. Installation should require no more than 10 minutes per side.
The rear splash guards are another matter entirely. If you have a 2010 Civic Si (as I do) you've got two significant problems: (1) you have 17" wheels (meaning you have even less space in the wheel well to work with), and (2) you have to first remove a plastic panel that is located in the area where the splash guard needs to be mounted. This plastic panel is held by a snap-clip and two screws. The snap-clip is easy to simply pop-out from behind. Each of the two screws is driven into thin metal spring-clips. In my case, two of these screws (one per wheel, as luck would have it) refused to come out; they simply would not back-out through the spring-clip. I ended up having to cut them off with a hacksaw--which is not easy to do given how tight the workspace is and how cautious you need to be to avoid damaging the car. Once the panel is removed, installing the spash guard is still not a slam-dunk. Two of the three screws needed to mount it are located toward the outside of the wheel and relatively easy to access and tighten. However, the third screw is inside the wheel well and therefore very difficult to reach. If you have access to a lift, I'm sure that would make the job much easier. For this screw, even the stubby-handled screwdriver isn't short enough--at least mine wasn't. Fortuantely, I have a right angle screwdriver that was just the right size to allow me (after figuring out how to properly contort myself into position) to turn the screw, about 1/4 turn at a time, until it was finally driven into place. If you don't have a tool like this, the most sensible alternative is to jack-up the car and remove the tire before proceeding. Once the tire is off, it should be a cinch to tighten the final two screws.
To summarize: The front ones are a piece of cake. For the rear ones, you'll need lots of light, a stubby screwdiver, possibly a hacksaw, a right-angle screwdriver, ideally a lift, and definitely a heck of a lot of patience, to get these suckers installed. ...Or, just bite the bullet and take the tire off!
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