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Old 05-05-2013, 05:07 PM   #131 (permalink)
AndrzejM
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Today I needed to go somewhere and I've made ~200 miles trip. And I've noticed that I miss my cardboard rear wheel skirts! I was literally feeling the draft of real wheel arches. I needed to take them out, because of annual vehicle inspection and rain which destroyed them anyway.
Today I needed to drive the same route (~200 miles), but first I've put the skirts again, made from scraps of XPS 6mm panels. I couldn't help myself And I was able to improve FE from 25.2 km/l 59.27MPG (average after 320 miles) to 26.4 km/l 62.1MPG on those 200 miles. With last part of the trip 172km ~107miles with average 29.9km/l 70.33MPG.

It's time for semi permanent real wheel skirts! Definitely!

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