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Old 10-27-2011, 07:02 PM   #33 (permalink)
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In my experience using these without securing them as part of ducting for my radiator, even though the pipe insulation was worked into a pretty tight spot, it worked its way loose if I left it without something to secure it. Try some zip ties threaded through just the back of the insulation and tied to something in the bumper assembly or somewhere. Otherwise, I think you might get home one day and discover it has disappeared somewhere in transit.

But these are some of the cleanest, best looking simple mods I have seen on the site.

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I agree that they are clean. I think Prius' people were some of the first to do it.

I never lost any pipe insulation. Which size ducting did you use? The larger one that Alex is using in his SL1 "grill" is pretty snug. One thing I did was bend the ends to "hook" into the sides of the above lower grill. That helped to anchor it.

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