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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / January 2007Bras, For Your Car
Bras For Your Car Whoever coined the term, car bra, must have done so to attract a lot of attention. Apparently, they have succeeded. Cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans are all sporting bras and they are a very attractive site. Let's take a closer look at car bras and what they are all about. Not all car bras are called car bras. Other names you will hear are hood protectors or car masks. Personally, they look like masks more than anything to me in that they cover the front end [or face] of the car, leaving headlights and turn signal lights free. Some are designed so that fog lights can also be bra free. Besides looking absolutely cool, car bras do have a practical function to them. A properly installed bra will protect your car's front end from flying debris, rocks kicked up by other vehicles while you drive down the highway, insects, and road tar. Some bras cover the entire hood while others cover the grill and a small section of the front of the hood. In the latter case, two piece car bras allow for you to keep the bra on while still being able to lift the hood, if need be. Some car bras must be removed in order to access the hood... Read the entire article at http://www.ourcartips.com/car/bras_for_your_car.html 'Every' vehicle without exception that I have observed using a 'bra' had their paint job destroyed by this bra. Every one! Road dust gets between the bra and vehicle and acts like fine sandpaper which scours the paint away. I do live in Canada that sees road salt which also will collect and fast rust rot the sanded off areas, but even in summer there is lots of road dust around to just screw the paint. Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) > Bras For Your Car > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Read the entire article at > http://www.ourcartips.com/car/bras_for_your_car.html > 'Every' vehicle without exception that I have observed using a 'bra' had > their paint job destroyed by this bra. Every one! I've seen the same thing. I've seen pictures on the web of a special plastic protective film one can put right on the paint. It peels off without damage and protects the paint from from rocks, scratches etc while being nearly invisible. Think it was a 3M product of some sort. Seems like a much better idea. > Bras For Your Car > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Read the entire article at > http://www.ourcartips.com/car/bras_for_your_car.html Hmmm...lets see if I understand this correctly. You want to guard against the minor chips and dings that one might get by using a huge piece of reinforced material that is guaranteed to scuff all painted surfaces it comes into contact with and will undoubtedly introduce a tan line on what is remaining. Now why would anyone who cares about their car buy such a device. Do you even think about the stuff posted on your website, or is this simply a copy and paste exercise. Divorced woman next door to me,one of her boyfriend's pickup truck is parked in her driveway.(brake master cylinder problem) His pickup truck has one of those fabric net tail gates on there instead of the factory pickup truck metal tail gate.I guess they think the fabric net tail gate saves gas,when in fact,no gas savings are measurable.If I want to save gas,I will ride my bicycle. cuhulin > Divorced woman next door to me,one of her boyfriend's pickup truck is > parked in her driveway.(brake master cylinder problem) His pickup truck [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > gas,I will ride my bicycle. > cuhulin Mythbusters did a half hearted experiment with two 'identical' pickups, one running with the tailgate down, the other running with it up. Was a shitty experiment, but guess which one went further on measured volumes of fuel? Yup, the one with the tailgate UP. Auto engineers claimed that the controlled turbulence in the truck bed actually decreases drag. Same with most of these airfoils the Highschool Harries love to mount on their rice rockets. Not worth the time to put them on. > > Divorced woman next door to me,one of her boyfriend's pickup truck is > > parked in her driveway.(brake master cylinder problem) His pickup truck [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Same with most of these airfoils the Highschool Harries love to mount > on their rice rockets. Not worth the time to put them on. I got a huge chuckle out of a Porsche with an automatic spoiler that came up at approximately 40 mph. I was behind it in traffic and over 5 miles it bobbed up and down maybe 10 times as traffic crossed that magic 40 mph speed. I'm sure the guy behind the wheel was feeling like a Serious Driver as the airfoil light flashed on and off and the foil went up and down in the rear view mirror. Looked more like a distress signal of sorts from behind and was good for a laugh. I'm sure that at some speed that spoiler would help, but those speeds are illegal, so what's the point. > I'm sure that at some speed that spoiler would help, but those speeds > are illegal, so what's the point. Right on, John S. >>> Divorced woman next door to me,one of her boyfriend's pickup truck is >>> parked in her driveway.(brake master cylinder problem) His pickup truck [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > I'm sure that at some speed that spoiler would help, but those speeds > are illegal, so what's the point. In Germany that spoiler was programmed to deploy over 90mph. The problem was that the yuppies in the US wanted it to deploy at speeds that they normally drove at. So Porsche reprogrammed it to deploy at 45 for the US market. However they also warned that deploying at that speed does lower fuel mileage.  SignatureSteve W. n. > I got a huge chuckle out of a Porsche with an automatic spoiler that > came up at approximately 40 mph. I was behind it in traffic and over [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I'm sure that at some speed that spoiler would help, but those speeds > are illegal, so what's the point. In Germany, that spoiler rises at about 150mph. Porsche recalibrated it for North American speeds so NA customers would think they were getting their money's worth. I had originally thought the spoiler was supposed to rise at 55mph, but evidently I was wrong. SignatureTegger <HLS@nospam.nix> wrote in news:Lltth.12704$ji1.4774 @newssvr12.news.prodigy.net: >> Divorced woman next door to me,one of her boyfriend's pickup truck is >> parked in her driveway.(brake master cylinder problem) His pickup truck [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Same with most of these airfoils the Highschool Harries love to mount > on their rice rockets. Not worth the time to put them on. the wind tunnel portion of that entertaining experiment did show the 'bubble' of turbulance that forces air above the tailgate tho!........jap- crap with spoilers. yep. gotta love em. especially if they have them annoying bumble bee mufflers! > jap-crap with spoilers. yep. gotta love em. especially if they have them > annoying bumble bee mufflers Bumble bee mufflers... bumble bee...bumble... muffl... oh, fart cans! Yeah, those are cool. Toyota MDT in MO > <HLS@nospam.nix> wrote in news:Lltth.12704$ji1.4774 > @newssvr12.news.prodigy.net: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > crap with spoilers. yep. gotta love em. especially if they have them > annoying bumble bee mufflers! That is NOT a bumble bee muffler, how DARE you degrade a nice insect like that.... It is properly referred to by the cynics as a "Fart Can" SignatureSteve W. >> Divorced woman next door to me,one of her boyfriend's pickup truck is >> parked in her driveway.(brake master cylinder problem) His pickup [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > engineers claimed that the controlled turbulence in the truck bed > actually decreases drag. I believe it. Consider: With the tailgate up, there is created an eddy within the bed, roughly level with the top of the tailgate, and moving forwards at its upper surface (which is why leaves and empty beer cans collect under your rear window). This eddy has the effect of reducing the downward vertical distance that rearward-moving air would otherwise be forced to travel down the back of the pickup's vertical rear cab face to reach the point where it would be directed rearward again upon meeting the eddy, thus reducing the drag-inducing low-pressure pocket immediately behind the cab. Now, consider that the tailgate is down: The eddy cannot fully form, since the air is now allowed to slide out the back more readily. Leaves and empty beer cans are now more likely to fall on the road and annoy other drivers. Since the eddy is much reduced, the air leaving the cabin roof must travel further down the cabin's vertical rear window before exiting the vehicle's space, which means a larger low-pressure pocket aft of the cab. A larger low-pressure pocket means more drag. Ever seen a Kamm-back pickup? SignatureTegger |
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