Will never ever live on a gravel road again, can you believe a 55 mph speed limit? If even if they drove that slow, some were clocked going over a hundred. What about oncoming traffic?
Received more cracked windshields from oncoming traffic than anything else, and not a darn thing you can do about it when an uncovered dump truck flies by spraying stones all over the place.
County and state roads around here use gravel on the shoulders, And idiots can't even keep their vehicles on the paved roads, hit that and spray gravel all over the place. For better roads is where they let the weeds grow.
So why to I have this strange idea our vehicles are made for the showroom and not the kind of roads we are forced to drive on. Ha, talk to any marketing executive, do have this in my history book, if they don't sell in the showroom, they won't sell at all.
OE splash shields, use to call these mud flaps suck, got much larger aftermarket for my Cruze at about 90% cheaper than the crap they were offering. But should we really have to do this? If they can flare the fenders, should put these on at the factory.
Really carefully chose my roads with my brand new Cruze, put on splash shields the next morning, least they are on secure and straight.