Hi everyone I was just wondering what the members thought on this item
Styling Bonnet deflector
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Styling Bonnet deflector
I am guessing that the main purpose of this is to protect the leading edge of the bonnet from damage by stone chips and insects, etc. It looks rather ugly to my eyes and I am not sure the Pandas suffer that much from stone chip damage.
However, if it suits you then that's all that matters...
However, if it suits you then that's all that matters...
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To tell you the truth Iam on the fence Iam thinking the car is just to wee for such an item I found it on eBay it looks well made for £50
ZaphodB
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Saw one of these on a cross and it kinda suited it!
Will add wind noise, drag and reduce MPG. What’s to like?
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Its all personal choice but just money to buy and more money to lug about. Personally I think the cross looks daft enough as is. Mine has grown on me a bit,yy but all this junk is just costing purchasers hard earned cash. I keep wanting the red towing eyes on Noop. Common sense keeps asking what they do apart from absolutely nothing. Please everyone save your money for something thats of value. If you want to chuck money away I will take cheques. lol
(boring old miserable G*t Panda nut - over and out)
These ‘bonnet things’ started life in America as an add-on to protect the bonnets of cars from ‘bug strikes’ and stone chips while being driven on rural roads - and were called a ‘car bra’. They fell out of favour because they tended to damage the paint rather than protect it (being black they overheat it, being vinyl they release chemical that affect the gloss, and by blocking out the sun, lead to a shadow left where the sun ’bleaches’ the rest ). Now (40 or more years on from when I saw them here in the UK in the pages of ‘Car&Driver’ that my dad brought back from his US business trips) they seem to be appearing on all sorts of vehicles, as if somewhere, someone found an old ad and has ‘reinvented’ them, but this time as a rigid rather than stretchy plastic. But with fewer insects and better aerodynamics, very little point these days? All they do is make the computer designed aerodynamics worse and still can lead to paint damage. Largely superseded (at least for their original purpose) by clear, paint protection films which don’t wreck the aerodynamics. It’ll be fluffy dice and jacked-up rear suspension next…
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One aspect of limited/special edition models, which I'd never considered, is repair costs. My older boy had a Skoda Fabia Scout for a while. It was an estate and a very useful car, even looked quite "butch" with all it's "fake" 4WD looks. Unfortunately it was damaged by some low life in a supermarket car park who drove off without leaving any note in his window so he was stuck with the repair costs. (We've learned you never claim insurance unless the car's virtually a write off!) All went well until they needed to get some of these special trim parts. It was difficult to source them, took weeks to come and cost many times what the standard car would have to repair.
That car was a bit of a disaster due mainly to it's 1.6 diesel engine. His previous Fabia hatchback had the very reliable 1.9 PD TDI engine and just went on, and on, and on ---------. It's reliability became almost boring! The new Common Rail engine blocked up it's EGR (a "nasty" one to get at so you can fit a new one), cracked it's catalyser, and a number of other smaller problems. After the reliability of the older car this one was a big shock for him. It completely destroyed his faith in VAG product and he bought a Kia Rio to replace it - which he's had for about 7 years now and is another depressingly reliable car.
Someone say furry dice?
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Since we've just arrived at nostalgia central - I assumed you could still buy Feu Orange.........
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Yep, the logic behind those car bras (and these wind deflector things) was something I could never undertsand. OK, so you want to reduce the stone chips on your bonnet as they're unsightly? Fair enough. But how then is sticking a massive, flappy piece of plastic across it anything other than unsightly while also hiding the bonnet paint that you want to protect?
