Patent ID: 7717467

Claim:
A mud flap for attachment to a fender fold of a vehicle wheel well, comprising: a mud flap body having a front face for facing a wheel of the vehicle and a rear face for mounting to the vehicle wheel well the mud flap body molded of polymeric material; a screw-threaded attachment bolt received into an elongate slot formed in the mud flap body from the front face to the rear face thereof; a sliding clamping member having a bolt hole which is threadably carried on the attachment bolt, the sliding clamping member disposed rearwardly from the rear face of the mud flap body, a clamping end of the sliding clamping member extending in an outboard direction from the bolt hole, an edge of the mud flap body placed forwardly of the fender fold, the sliding clamping member translatable, in combination with the attachment bolt, along the elongate slot from a disengaged position in which the clamping end is not behind the fender fold to an engaged position in which the clamping end is behind the fender fold; and a guide integrally molded into the mud flap body to extend rearwardly from a general rear surface thereof, the guide disposed in sufficient proximity to at least one lateral edge of the sliding clamping member that rotation of the sliding clamping member with the attachment bolt as a unit is prevented; rotation of the attachment bolt causing the sliding clamping member to be drawn forwardly toward the rear side of the mud flap body and causing the clamping of the fender fold between the clamping end of the sliding clamping member and the edge of the mud flap body.