So lessons learned from my first couple of trips. One of those woulda, coulda, shoulda moments.
As I was doing my dreaming after ordering my 560 last year and reading all of the posts I read about the Rock Tamer mud flaps. Had them on my list of things I should buy but they slipped my mind.
I pull my 560 with a GMC Yukon. After I got back from the two weeks I found that the fenders were a bit sandblasted and several more pits on the front of the trailer. Almost like a dusting.
I thought about having some ClearBra put on the fenders but according to the installer I used for the Yukon the material won't stick to anything but a painted surface. 3M does make abrasion film that is used on the front edges of airplane wings and I actually had some but it was only 6 inch in width from a roll that I had for protecting the bottom fuselage of my glider years ago that would be badly dinged when landing from the landing wheel throwing back small rocks.
Then the light bulb went off and I remembered the posting about the Enkay Rock Tamer mud flaps. Bought them off of Amazon and installed them last night. Easy install. Didn't need to trim them for length on the Yukon.
Drove with them in the rain last night and got very little blowup onto the back window as was normal without them in place so expect that they will do a great job in controlling any gravel.
So if you do plan to travel back roads, take that trip to Alaska or anything in between then think about some type of road crud deflector for your tow vehicle. And especially if you have a wide tow vehicle.
PS Yes that is a funky looking hitch. 10 inch drop. Yukon has 20 inch tires and the air suspension so needed to special order the 2 inch hitch with a large 10 inch drop so that I could get the 560 SUV level. It is dead level with this hitch.
As I was doing my dreaming after ordering my 560 last year and reading all of the posts I read about the Rock Tamer mud flaps. Had them on my list of things I should buy but they slipped my mind.
I pull my 560 with a GMC Yukon. After I got back from the two weeks I found that the fenders were a bit sandblasted and several more pits on the front of the trailer. Almost like a dusting.
I thought about having some ClearBra put on the fenders but according to the installer I used for the Yukon the material won't stick to anything but a painted surface. 3M does make abrasion film that is used on the front edges of airplane wings and I actually had some but it was only 6 inch in width from a roll that I had for protecting the bottom fuselage of my glider years ago that would be badly dinged when landing from the landing wheel throwing back small rocks.
Then the light bulb went off and I remembered the posting about the Enkay Rock Tamer mud flaps. Bought them off of Amazon and installed them last night. Easy install. Didn't need to trim them for length on the Yukon.
Drove with them in the rain last night and got very little blowup onto the back window as was normal without them in place so expect that they will do a great job in controlling any gravel.
So if you do plan to travel back roads, take that trip to Alaska or anything in between then think about some type of road crud deflector for your tow vehicle. And especially if you have a wide tow vehicle.
PS Yes that is a funky looking hitch. 10 inch drop. Yukon has 20 inch tires and the air suspension so needed to special order the 2 inch hitch with a large 10 inch drop so that I could get the 560 SUV level. It is dead level with this hitch.
