Rock Guard

[Skeld]

It seems the rock guard is already getting torn up on my truck as the ride height is high enough for the rocks to bypass the mud flaps and still hit the back bottom of the rear quarter. I guess it's not really a big deal, but has anyone noticed this being a big problem over time? Wondering if I should be figuring out a way to stop it with a decal maybe or something like that. I drive on dirt roads from time to time, logging roads. I imagine that is when it's happening mostly.

[Ken Rutyna]

I know people get Line-X on the bottom panels if they are on rocky roads like that.... you can get it sprayed in pretty much any color your truck is...

[Cowpie]

I used some 10" wide mud flaps used on Freightliner commercial trucks. They sit low enough that I don't get a lot of rocks and mud packed up under the rear area. The cheesy stuff they call mud flaps at the OEM are a complete joke for the gravel roads I drive to and from the house. It is 2 miles to the nearest hard top one way, 4 miles another.

 

[Skeld]

Your mileage numbers are starting to make more sense with the tonneau cover and the vortex generators? Where do you get those?

[Cowpie]

got the air tabs from http://airtab.com

 

I had several left over from doing my semi truck so decided to give them a try. I do know that I end up with less dust and dirt buildup on the back end on the gravel roads, so they must be doing something. Mounted all along the rear of cab roof and the ones you see on the sides. The tonneau only really gets rolled out for road trips or if I have something in the back that I need to protect from weather. I haul quite often, so it is not really practical to constantly be rolling and unrolling the tonneau all the time.

[trpshoot]

I bought the no drill weathertech mud flaps last week. I went to pick the camper up at where we store it. The gravel road was pretty wet from some recent heavy rain. I didn't driver over 15 mph for about 600 yds round trip back to pavement. The weather techs look good, but they don't work with a poop.

Well, I took pics with my cell and they are evidently too large to upload. Regardless, I have mud on my running boards below the driver door exactly where one steps to get in and out of the truck, all over the rear bumper edge and the bottom have of my camper.

 

Not impressed...

[Cowpie]

Depends on if it is muddy "spray" from sloshing around or actual caked thick mud. It is two miles to the highway from my house. Even with mine, I will get mud build up in the wells and flaps, but no build up under the running boards or rear fender areas except for build up from the light muddy spray. Not a rock chip in sight on any painted area after 23,000 miles on the pickup that has to do 4 miles of gravel to and from the house each time. And we don't drive 15 mph on it.

 

Typical day in paradise when the road is wet....

 

 

[Skeld]

Yeah it also hammered the front of my Stealth 7X14 inline snowmobile trailer, which has a diamond plate guard area but the 2500 apparently throws stuff higher than a 1500 so it went above the plate and started peppering the aluminum skin of the trailer. Oh well.

[KMGZ400]

put 3M clear bra on areas that get chipped... unlike the K2's the GMT900's have 0 "rock guard" anywhere and the paint gets chewed up very easily, i have clear bra on my rockers and behind the wheels.

[Skeld]

I had that problem on my 2009 1500, got torn up on the front bottom corners of the bed in no time. On these K2XX's, they took some steps to help things out a lot with the rock guard, the rear wheel front mud flaps, the plastic guards on the front bottom corners of the bed. All good stuff. I don't like GMC's as well, but I am jealous of their plastic fender flare piece as that area gets torn up eventually also.

[SMiller]

Huskyliner makes some legit mud flaps.

 

Bought weathertechs and sent them back real quick.