Mud Flap

soren wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

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

I pulled into a gas station on the Kenai, and saw a Subaru wagon that looked even worse that the pic. you posted. The headlights were gone and the windshield was cracked in five places. The guy was pulling the car with an old class A with a huge tail overhang, and a flap that was about 2" off the road, while parked on level concrete. When I suggested that the mud flap was the issue, he looked at me like I was Forrest Gump....... Oh well, you can't fix stupid, LOL

Yes, the picture posted is somewhat like we saw but there were a lot more rocks laying at the windshield. There were some mighty unhappy campers taking off their mud flaps.

This was a construction area and one that couldn't be avoided. Everyone drove through it but not everyone had the damage.