Tesla is going to start offering free “all-weather protection kits” with mud flaps in regions with tough climates after some paint issues were reported by Model 3 owners after last winter.

We reported last month that Tesla sent a memo to its staff in Canada to inform them that they plan to offer mud flaps for free to new and existing Model 3 owners in most of Canada as part of a new ...

If an aerodynamic mud flap is not made of the right material, it won't last. It will crack, split and break because the holes act as stress points. Their performance in cold weather is even worse.

Robert seems to think a lack of mud flaps on pickups and SUVs is epidemic in Washington. “There’s thousands of them running around out there,” he told us here at Traffic Q&A headquarters.

Brittany Force was one of the first to make a pass without the familiar flaps, at last week’s Arizona Nationals, at Phoenix, and she clocked a 3.768-second, 329.10-mph performance. But that was ...