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Old 04-04-2011, 10:47 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BamZipPow View Post
From a safety aspect...don't do that. There are specific safety catches on the fenders that are there to prevent the hood from flying over the vehicle in a front end collision.

Yer better off building it up from foam/Coroplast sheeting...
Not over the vehicle but through the head/neck area of the passenger compartment.

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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
That's not really a deflector... The hood just happens to cover up the wipers in the parked position.
That may be most of what a window deflector does, is puts a draggy item (the wipers) under a fairer surface.

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