View Poll Results: Do you keep or want a full-width mudflap on your Class A?
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NO: removed it, or never had it & don't want it, or gonna take it off ASAP
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30.20% |
YES: have it, or want/ordering one
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66.44% |
SORTA: have a different option such as the "grass skirt" - see comments
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3.36% |
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09-21-2017, 11:26 PM
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#15
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 94
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Mine is an UltraGuard. Held on by chains on 38ft Newmar DP. Protects toad really well. Wouldn't want to be without it...
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2002 Newmar 38ft
Kountry Star DP Model 3669
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09-22-2017, 05:55 AM
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#16
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,283
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Gone! And so are the rocks hitting my toad and piling up on the lower winshield.
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2015 Fleetwood Discovery 40E on a Freightliner XCS chassis with a Cummins ISL9 pulling 1 and/or 2 motorcycles, '07 Honda Accord OR a 17' Runabout Boat.
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09-22-2017, 06:05 AM
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#18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Foley AL
Posts: 7,138
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A second poll would be: How many have truck style flaps behind the wheels in lieu of full-width ad-flap? I'm in that group.
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2005 Newmar Essex 4502, 2013 Caddy SRX
1997 HR Endeavor 37, CAT, 1996 Geo Tracker
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09-22-2017, 08:21 AM
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#19
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 103
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Full width UltraGuard, I installed it with chains, wouldn't be without it, saves my TOAD!
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09-22-2017, 09:17 AM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Over the next hill, around the next curve...
Posts: 5,659
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Another one who removed the flap before going to Alaska. We a much smaller accumulation of gravel/pebble rocks at the base of our toads windshield. Our coach does have tire flaps behind the Tags, and I believe this helps.
I've noticed no change in MPG or engine cooling, though during my research, others commented about cooler running engines...
Suspect that different chassis and coach overhang as well as Tag vs non Tag can be a difference maker the results of using, or not using, the large mud flaps.
Smitty
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07 Country Coach Magna Rembrandt 45' ISX600
Roo II was our 04 Country Coach Allure 40'
OnDRoad for The JRNY! Enjoy life...
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09-22-2017, 09:48 AM
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#21
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,622
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I use the solid rubber flap, but also the Protect-A-Tow mesh shield. I think the combination gives me the very best protection!
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Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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09-22-2017, 09:52 AM
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#22
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club Coastal Campers Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Tampa, Florida
Posts: 737
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We'very had our Newmar Canyon Star for a couple of months, and I plan to keep the flap on. It'seems hard rubber suspended by two chains, so it can be adjusted to set higher or lower, but I'must leaving it the way it is right now. I don'the have a toad hookup yet, but the flap seems like it would stopen some of the big stuff from flying back into a toad. I saw another coach with a Blue Ox Tow Bar with a Blue Ox mesh Guard that will protect a toad from anything that gets past the flap. The mesh guard does not restricted turning.
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09-22-2017, 10:01 AM
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#23
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Desert Hot Springs Ca.
Posts: 947
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Kept mine. Came with the OEM Monaco one. Towed my Edge 1700 miles on vacation with no problems.
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2011 Mobile Suites 36RSSB3
2014 F-350 6.7L CC DRW
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09-22-2017, 10:16 AM
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#24
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Lake Havasu City, AZ & Plover, WI
Posts: 6,403
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After paying $800 to have the front of my custom painted enclosed trailer refinished, I removed the full flap. No more stone chips after 12,000 miles. The small flaps behind the wheels do the job. My son had the same problem with his Mountain Aire. His new Newell did not come with one. As far as not having the coach logo there anymore,,,,,,, I couldn't care less.
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2006 Monaco Executive 44 Denali
2013 43 QGP Allegro Bus ( SOLD )
2013 Avalanche
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09-22-2017, 10:45 AM
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#25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 961
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4 years without and not a stone chip yet. Guess drive wheels are far enough forward.
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2013 Tiffin Allegro 36LA OPEN ROAD
2012 Honda CRV AWD toad
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09-22-2017, 11:27 AM
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#26
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Member
Winnebago Owners Club Vintage RV Owners Club Gulf Streamers Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 51
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My Gulfstream has the grass skirt. I will be adding full length truck flaps at the tires this fall.
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09-22-2017, 12:49 PM
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#27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Foley AL
Posts: 7,138
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There seems to be a theme.
Those people that had a full-width and removed it are happy (they have a comparison).
Those people that have a full-width and are keeping it are happy (no comparison).
No one that has removed the full-width, and tested, has put it back on.
People that have conventional mudflaps (behind the wheels) are happy.
Some people have kept the original have done so to maintain originality (that's cool).
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2005 Newmar Essex 4502, 2013 Caddy SRX
1997 HR Endeavor 37, CAT, 1996 Geo Tracker
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09-22-2017, 12:57 PM
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#28
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Georgia
Posts: 8,638
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Still on and looking good!
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