Tow Vehicle/Trailer Road Damage Protection
We are planning a trip to Alaska this year and will be traveling the Alaska Highway up and the Cassiar on the return. We will be traveling the main roads to Skagway, Haines, Valdez, Anchorage, Homer, ...
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The surest sign of an Alaskan vehicle is a cracked windshield. Of the 6 vehicles between my and my son's household, only 2 have undamaged windshields....DIL's and DW's. Hmmm.
...but I digress. The damage to the windshields have all occured driving on paved roads in and around Anchorage with no more extensive trips than either Fairbanks or Homer. In 20+ trips up and down the Alcan, I had 1-2 flats and 2 broken headlights...and this was between the '70's and 90's. Both of the broken headlights were due to following too close to a big rig...once it was my company's big rig, the other time it was just some guy that didn't understand how fast I needed to go. :(
If possible, I'd put headlight protection on (if they still make those) and I'd second Joe b.'s suggestion about hardware cloth or mesh to keep the bugs out of the grill, but wouldn't do anything more than that.
...but I digress. The damage to the windshields have all occured driving on paved roads in and around Anchorage with no more extensive trips than either Fairbanks or Homer. In 20+ trips up and down the Alcan, I had 1-2 flats and 2 broken headlights...and this was between the '70's and 90's. Both of the broken headlights were due to following too close to a big rig...once it was my company's big rig, the other time it was just some guy that didn't understand how fast I needed to go. :(
If possible, I'd put headlight protection on (if they still make those) and I'd second Joe b.'s suggestion about hardware cloth or mesh to keep the bugs out of the grill, but wouldn't do anything more than that.
