Cab spoiler installed

[RockHoundTX]

So, do you think it will decrease drag ecoefficiency?

The parasitic drag behind the back window will be increased significantly. Any MPG benefit from adding the bed cover is probably gone. Since the spoiler throws the air up instead of letting it flow over the cab, you are effectively increasing the wind frontal area as well. From a MPG perspective, it probably has about the same effect (or maybe a tiny bit more) as adding a bug deflector. If someone wanted to increase MPG, then potentially could use vortex generators instead of a spoiler.

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[Maverickent]

The parasitic drag behind the back window will be increased significantly. Any MPG benefit from adding the bed cover is probably gone. Since the spoiler throws the air up instead of letting it flow over the cab, you are effectively increasing the wind frontal area as well. From a MPG perspective, it probably has about the same effect (or maybe a tiny bit more) as adding a bug deflector. If someone wanted to increase MPG, then potentially could use vortex generators instead of a spoiler.

I agree entirely, as much of what you're saying was addressed on an episode of Myth Busters many years ago.

 

[Deleted member 23340]

After nearly 2 months, 1,000 f bombs, 2 caulk guns, and 1 ruined tube of adhesive, I finally installed the cab spoiler!

I like this cab spoiler, just not sure if it's worth it? How much of a difference in feel do you have when you look at your truck with it then you did without it?

 

[Clarkdonbran]

I like this cab spoiler, just not sure if it's worth it? How much of a difference in feel do you have when you look at your truck with it then you did without it?

I barely got to enjoy having it on because I got a CEL on 2/17 and it’s been at the dealer ever since. I visited it a few days and immediately saw my truck because of the spoiler.

 

[Deleted member 23340]

I barely got to enjoy having it on because I got a CEL on 2/17 and it’s been at the dealer ever since. I visited it a few days and immediately saw my truck because of the spoiler.

What's a CEL?

 

[Clarkdonbran]

What's a CEL?

Check engine light. Sorry for not answering your question. I’m not sure it’s worth over $200 to get. Hopefully @MABETT or @Muslogy Auto will make a more affordable one.

 

[Deleted member 23340]

Check engine light. Sorry for not answering your question. I’m not sure it’s worth over $200 to get. Hopefully @MABETT or @Muslogy Auto will make a more affordable one.

Sucks to hear about the engine light. Thanks for the honest opinion. I'm on the fence about it. I have Ford pass points so I'll have to think about it.

 

[Hoagus]

I didn’t read the instructions and opened it without having a caulk gun. By the time I got a gun that worked the adhesive was a goner.

So in other words, it spoiled?

 

[JimParker256]

75% of what I know I learned from the 1987 Guinness Book of World Records!

That's way better than one acquaintance, who I would swear that 75% of everything he knows was made up right there on the spot...

 

[JimParker256]

It looks cool, but I have to ask: what is the purpose? Based on all my aerospace classes many, many moons ago, that spoiler will likely reduce your daily gas mileage by 1-2 MPG (more at interstate speeds). Unless you are pulling a trailer that is at or just slightly above the roof height of the Maverick, I am not sure what the benefit would be. Just a pure curiosity question.

I'm right there with you, though my aerodynamics classes were in the early '70s, and much of it has cycled into the "dead zone" in my brain...

 

[Hillbilly]

Who cares about 0,001% mpg loss? It looks dam cool

 

[HYENA13]

After nearly 2 months, 1,000 f bombs, 2 caulk guns, and 1 ruined tube of adhesive, I finally installed the cab spoiler!

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