I bet this thread title had you thinking "...what"
Hey! New 350z owner here, in need of a bit of advice! I've been lurking this site and others for a while trying to learn my way around the cars and so far have been able to answer all my questions that way, but since buying a 350z last week, there's one thing I can't figure out no matter how much I search, no matter how many videos I look at, etc; and that's whether the rear wheel arches are meant to have plastic protectors/liners inside them like the front ones do!
I'll admit it was something I missed off the checklist when buying the car (despite spending a lot of time inspecting the fenders and wheels themselves!). There were no problems on the test drive but once I bought the car and took it home, going over one or two roads in my area I can hear flecks of tarmac/debris pinging off the metalwork of the wheel arches as I drove. When I went to investigate, sure enough, there's no plastic liners over most of the interior of the rear arches; only the rearmost 1/3 perhaps, the side just before the boot, which I presume is to complete the arch on that side.
Is it normal for the rest to be uncovered? If so then... great, I'm not insane! I literally cannot find any mention, nor picture, nor video of rear arch/fender liners/protectors anywhere, so that would make sense. Front ones, sure I found those everywhere. Even riffling through the service manual I can find those in the bodywork section (Exterior & Interior/ei.pdf: page 21 "FENDER PROTECTOR")... But not rears!
So someone please tell me I'm not going crazy and nothing's fallen off my car!