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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
cfq made a deployable air dam. I've been meaning to ask him how it's working out anyway...
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Also... was cruising the Ford lot today and noticed the new F150s have TWO airdams, one in front of the other. The King Ranch has one quite deep airdam. On that one they figured out how to deal with the weakness that plagued my '94: When you put curved ends on the plastic airdam and hit something, it breaks. The old, ugly flat ones simply bent up and sprung back but nooooo, we need style on there!
I think I've seen one F150 of the same body style as mine with an intact airdam; all the rest are broken at the corner, just like mine. Anyway, their fix was to put some big steel stampings a couple inches behind the dam such that if the dam hits something it can flex some but not enough to break it at the corners.
On the new pickups you can sight down in front and see that the dams are low enough to "cover" all the low hanging undercarriage bits. On my '94 the dam is, oh, 4" deep but plainly needs to go at least 6" more to achieve the same coverage.