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MetroMPG · 12-31-2007, 08:54 PM

True, but you'll have to "detail" the darned things on the roof after every snowfall too. I expect they'd fill in, at which point they're just hurting your Cd (and poss increasing A). And how long before you crack one or knock it off with the snow brush?

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