Air Deflector Flaps Underneath The Car

[JCB..]

2 things:

(1) Any tech heads actually know what they are designed top do?

(2) Does your local PC Service Mananger know?

I lost one yesterday morning as it was ripped off by, what was until very recently, a Badger.

I thought I would play safe and ring my closest and check if it was Ok to run until my next service in 4k miles time.

Jumbo Mars bar for the nearest or most original answer!

I hasten to add the Brock was very much dead before it leapt out from underneath the car in front.

JCB..

 

[Helen Goff]

with the hundreds of sleeping policemen around here (all dead before i got to them....honest)i've lost count of the number of times i've had mine replaced, last time i found them gone by the time i got the car home from the stealers.

like you we do many miles in all weathers in our Boxster and i can honestly say it runs fine without these annoying flappy bits of plastic underneith.

 

[Helen Goff]

as most of you call the cars girls i was thinking maybe these were part of the cars genitalia[:-]

 

[Elliot Davies]

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L&R dont know what ones which []

they are called "rails"

price £14.50 a pair

They are designed to keep the monies ticking in !

 

[Black80XSA]

I suspect these are to deflect some cooling air into the engine/gearbox area

 

[Guest]

Scoop up cooling air for the gearbox.

 

[tim court]

Merkin coolers for those hot summer days

 

[Elliot Davies]

ORIGINAL: lawrencemoss

Scoop up cooling air for the gearbox.

I take it were not talking about the deflectors under the front bumper then ?

 

[Mark_Bennett]

The ones under the front have 2 purposes.

Aid extraction of the hot air from behind the radiators.
Give early warning you will ground out the nose on a slope (you have to be going slow enough to be able to react[8|]!)

The ones under the engine must scoop only a small amount of air into the engine/gearbox compartment - presumably designed to do exactly what is required in a particular location. Therefore replacement recommended...?

 

[JCB..]

No one is even remotely close to the two "official" versions yet!

 

[Mark_Bennett]

I imagine the "official" thing was:

"Don't worry about it sir - we can fit new ones next time we have the car in, if you want"

[8|]

 

[Helen Goff]

they are designed to fall off in order to raise much needed funds for the poor old OPC service department cos as we all know they run on such a low profit margin [:-][:-][:-]

 

[JCB..]

Mark

That was the 'fix' but their raison d'être was...

JCB..

(That Mars bar is getting colder)....

 

[Mark_Bennett]

"...they don't do anything anyway"?

 

[Helen Goff]

mud flaps

 

[dawn lang]

Dead badger smackers?[]

 

[Helen Goff]

there to stop the service guys banging their heads when their working under your car

 

[dawn lang]

ORIGINAL: Helen Goff

there to stop the service guys banging their heads when their working under your car

Where's the fun in that? [] Personally I like to see a few bruised heads at my OPC - means the mechanics are working for their money!

Note to self - take of silly flappy, badger slapping thingies from bottom of car!

 

[Dapster]

It's to stop BMW Z4 and Merc SLK drivers from burning their heads on the exhaust when you drive over them.

 

[dawn lang]

ORIGINAL: Dapster

It's to stop BMW Z4 and Merc SLK drivers from burning their heads on the exhaust when you drive over them.

Personally, I think that's the winner! [] Give that man a Mars Bar![8D]