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Originally Posted by Andyinchville1
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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There is a risk that VW has already optimized the skirts.They've known of their significance since the 1970s.Hucho was part of that.