as long as the wheel touches the ground I think it looks nicer to cover as much as poss...

depends on your field I spose.

If you need to use bigger wheels then relieve the hole in the spats some more.

its all about choices..

Philly.... Im really very sorry but I found your envelope on the workshop floor yesterday.... It must have dropped out the collection that went to the post on Tuesday... as a result your hinges only got sent yesterday...
you might be lucky but....