Are side skirts worth it ?
Hi All,
Looking at many over the road tractor trailers I have noticed that many trailers are equipped with side skirts that help fuel economy.
I was wandering around Lowes the other day and found that they sold rolls of pretty thick plastic like landscape edging that I thought would make for good side skirts.... 20 foot roll or black composite edging for $24.98 item number 514744...it looked to be about 3.5 inches tall (I wished it was taller so the skirts would go closer to the ground)
Has anybody here experimented with side skirts? Is lower better or is 3.5 inches better than nothing?
How do you think they would do without modding the front air dam?
For mounting, I was thinking of welding some bolts onto the seam that runs along the bottom of my Jetta (the same seam that the factory jack raises the car from) and then just drilling the corresponding holes on the side skirt for a simple bolt on operation.
Any thoughts and or experience with this?
Thanks
Andrew
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2003 Jetta TDI Wagon, 5 sp, 210K miles, Stock.....for now!
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