Mud Flap
We have owned our new motor home for 1 month and 1 day now. Still waiting for RV.net to fix the My Preferences link so I can update my signature (hint,hint). It came with a full width mud flap with...
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2gypsies wrote:
We actually saw folks removing them while on our trip to Alaska. We saw the damage they caused on the gravel roads - a layer of 1" rocks laying at the base of their windshield.
We didn't have the stiff mud flap. We only had the flaps behind each tire. We didn't receive any damage on our towed vehicle.
Later on, for lack of anything better to do on a heavily-raining day driving on I-15 in Utah, I watched the opposing traffic of motorhomes towing. The ones with the big flaps had a arc of water hitting the hood of the towed. The ones without a flap had the shooting out at the tire level.
Do you mean roads like this in Alaska? If you look closely you can see the rocks at the base of the windshield and even see a few on the roof. Naturally the windshield was all chipped in addition to the headlights being broken out. This was with a full width mud flap that was taken off too late. Road damage with a full width mud flap
