Help with salty road spray

[4wdriver]

Wondering if anyone installed fender flares for the purpose of cutting down on road wash from your tires. Black truck and winter roads in ny don't go well together. Just not sure this would really help much or at all. Looks like most of the spray comes off the front tires.

[RyanbabZ71]

It didn't help on my 2000. Do you have mud flaps and or side steps? They seem to help a bit but once you drive by any vehicle On a wet road it's game over

 

 

Ryan B.

[Dirtbiker]

I did on my half ton after the lift kit and required offset on the wheels pushed them out 3 inches and past the fenders causing the tires throw mud all over the side of the truck. Mud flaps and a flat style running board protect a truck with normal or close to factory offset wheels though. But a black truck in winter on salt roads will always be dirty. The only way to prevent that is to paint it white or silver ha ha.

[Cowpie]

Mud flaps and side extenders will help with actual rocks, chunks of mud, and other road debris but spray from wet roads, salty or not, is going to get into the same places and cover the same areas. It is all about aerodynamics when it comes to road spray. The mud flaps and running boards do a great job of keeping rocks from damaging my pickup but as you can tell from this picture, the muddy, slushy spray is still going to cover just as it did before......

 

[4wdriver]

I figured this would be the case but just hoping someone had proof otherwise. Cowpie yours is slightly better than mine yours isn't covering the door handles kinda a pain but worth it to have a new truck.

[BigBadSierra]

All the spray I get comes from the other cars on the road.

[4wdriver]

I don't think they have fender flares to solve that but yes that to. I try to hang back some when following other cars but my windshield says I'm still getting sprayed