Cross Country Question
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From: Marblehead
Avoid driving directly behind 18 wheelers, pickup trucks, and SUVs. If they pass you at high speed, slow down and get space.
Drive only in the opposite lane - pretty hard to do sometimes. I've used bras on other cars with variable success. But, if it rains while driving, take it off when it stops raining and before the hot sun bakes the moisture underneath the bra, to avoid paint fogging.
If you do the interstates a lot, chips are pretty unavoidable.
Drive only in the opposite lane - pretty hard to do sometimes. I've used bras on other cars with variable success. But, if it rains while driving, take it off when it stops raining and before the hot sun bakes the moisture underneath the bra, to avoid paint fogging.
If you do the interstates a lot, chips are pretty unavoidable.
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From: Kuna Idaho
Originally Posted by Wildncrazy' date='Mar 22 2007, 08:15 PM
I'm all for braless!!!!
Commando is even better!!!
But I would cover the front of the car since this is bug season.
Commando is even better!!!
But I would cover the front of the car since this is bug season.
I need to sell the nose mask I have. Bought it brand new in the box a year ago and it's still sitting there.
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From: St-Redempteur,Qc.
Originally Posted by DrCloud' date='Mar 23 2007, 06:16 AM
When we drove cross-country (Santa Fe to here in Boca) in September, 2005, the best thing I did was to put in the GrillCraft insert (I just used black zip-ties instead of taking the bumper off to do the real install). It did a great job of filtering out the giant grasshoppers west of Witchita and the butterflies to the east -- at every gas stop, I cleaned off layers of dead bugs that would have otherwise wound up farther back in the engine compartment somewhere. HPH
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From: Euclid, OH
Originally Posted by MsPerky' date='Mar 24 2007, 05:26 AM
My impression was those covers restrict the airflow to the engine, which is not a good thing. 
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From: EstesPark/BocaRaton
The GrillCraft one is coarse enough that it doesn't. (Of course, that means that gnats and mosquitoes get through it -- I was concerned mainly with the big lumps of arthropods).
Don't know about that silver one -- it looks like finer mesh. HPH
Don't know about that silver one -- it looks like finer mesh. HPH