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Old 02-11-2013, 01:59 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Location: NW Colo
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TDi - '04 VW Golf
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Bummer. I am in my third winter with mine with no damage. (photos in my profile). I do have an aluminum skidplate under the engine and the leading edge of the coroplast angles up sharply just behind that. The first winter with the belly pan I discovered that the gaps around the rear wheelwells allowed snow to blow into the gaps between the body and the belly pan. I extended the fenderwells the next summer and no problems since. I was pushing snow for many miles last weekend but it was fluffy Colorado snow not frozen chunks.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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