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Old 07-21-2008, 03:53 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by twentysixtwo View Post
...For smaller trucks (ranger sized) Gate up and gate down were fairly close though gate up still slightly better....
That was my result... I sooooo wanted to beleive gate down would be MUCH better, but not so. I was pretty careful during the 'tests' and the fact I averaged things over thousands of miles helped, but the numbers don't lie, any real difference was buried in the noise.


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Originally Posted by twentysixtwo View Post
p.s. Mythbusters is total crap in their methodology.
Ha! I thought the same when it aired... I agreed with the conclusion, but not the psudo-science. Not one of their better shows.
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