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Old 01-19-2013, 05:29 PM   #4 (permalink)
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If they don't extend beyond the outside of the tire faces and have no flat plate end caps,front or rear,they may perform as a flow fence,helping the prevent comingling of air at different pressures or velocities which might induce some vorticity/turbulence.Roger Clark of GMC Truck Division may have commented on running boards in the Pop Sci Taurus/Silverado comparo.
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