Hopefully R&T allows hotlinking. If not, just click the link and you'll see what I'm talking about. I see a lot of newer cars come with these rubber'ish flaps ahead of the front tires. Anybody know what these are for?
They also function to keep mud off the front quarter panels while driving in reverse. Presumably on muddy roads.
I'd suspect more to do with drag vs the mud!! I have them on my MS and the don't do anything to help with the mud!
FWIW, I've seen those those front flaps on other car brands as well and they have been unrelated to the presence of mud flaps proper.
That's the FINAL STRAW -- I bet these are not available as a retrofit. I was promised hardware upgrades! I'm returning my Sig so I can get this!
LOL. Tesla's R&D is really restless and sleepless. While most of the improvements are not new to the industry, the rate at which they appear in Model S cars is impressive.
I don't think my car had them, I got it May 2013.. But after it being serviced 2 weeks ago, they just magically appeared. I could be wrong, and they could always have been there. Or it might be something else that I noticed, I'll check when I go home this weekend and take a closer look at my car.
My E46 BMW 3-series coupe has them as well. And that is almost 11 years old now. No idea what they are for, but I have scraped both sides on high curbs in parking lots and my car still drives. So they can't be that essential :wink:
My flaps scrape against the driveway every time I back-out into the street. I tried all different angles but I can't avoid it. When it stops scraping, I'll assess how much was worn and decide at that time whether or not I should replace.
In Formula 1, the top teams spend hundreds of hours of wind tunnel time and $100k's designing ways to get air efficiently around spinning front tires. :wink: