<font size="4">I currently have van skirting on both side's of my van. My question is would it make sense to remove these? Are these providing some kind of aero-dynamic effect for better gas mileage or are the just dead weight?</font><div><font size="4">I'm not concerned about looks. I want what's gonna give me the best fuel mileage. I'm also concerned about going off road with the side rails being so low. The step is nice though getting in and out of the van.</font></div>
Van skirting?
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I consider them to be nothing more than a pain in the butt. Of course, I tend to hit the more remote areas where the reduced ground clearance caused by skirting leads to it just getting bent/torn up and then torn off. Same goes for running boards on pickup trucks.. I'll just take em off and sell to some fool on Craigslist. ..Willy.<br>
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They're just looks and steps.<div><br></div><div>In order for them to provide an aerodynamic benefit, they would have to be a lot better shaped, and a lot lower to the ground then you would ever find them.</div><div><br><div><br></div><div>If you want steps, there are plenty of tough options out there.</div></div>
<font size="4">Thanks Willy, Armadillo and SoulRaven for your responses. Going to be removing soon. Also good idea about trying to sell em. I hadn't thought of that <img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/thumb.gif"></font>
Willy, I just finished removing the skirting and was amazed at how little rust is under this van. But this van has never seen snow (salt) being a Florida vehicle. Defiantly gonna need some kind of under coat for up north traveling.
