Posted: Nov 18 2005 at 8:37am | IP Logged

got a question for anyone who might have done some research on this, and if not, i'll think about trying to get some empirical data from my own research, but the roof rack deflector seems to make a ton of wind noise on my truck as i suspect and think i've read about before on other sites as well as this one maybe. has anyone ever seen if removing it would make a difference on fuel economy since you wouldn't have that air brake up there? (granted i'm sure the diff would ve very minimal, because it's already slanted to try and not detract from aerodynamics i guess) just another thought i had