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Old Feb 10, 2010 | 08:31 AM
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Anyone have any experience with the Mopar chrome bug deflector on their ram hood? Does it look good? Pictures of one on an Austin Tan would be great if anyone has one. Austin Tan is not one of the colors they make them in, so I was thinking Chrome or smoke.

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Old Feb 10, 2010 | 08:59 AM
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I have the chrome one on my yellow sport. Since I have a chrome grille, it looks fine. I don't think it fits as well as the 3rd Gen did, but of course the grille on the 4th Gen does not come up with the hood so it has to split from the grille.
 
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Old Feb 10, 2010 | 09:54 AM
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The red truck on the right has one. I was looking at it the other day to see if I liked it or not and if you look at the right hand side, you can see it does not line up with the headlight. It leaves a triangle of exposed area. I didn't like that so knocked it off my short list.

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Old Feb 10, 2010 | 10:02 AM
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I've got one in the silver paint to match my truck. It seems to work just fine. and it looks good on the truck. Overall I'm happy with it.
 
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Old Feb 10, 2010 | 11:18 AM
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I just put a color matched one on after the first hood ding recently, was trying to decide between it and the chrome (mine is mineral grey) and went with the color matched.

Its a very easy install, no drilling or double sided tape, but it it sits against the hood on the outer corners and I'm a little concerned about it rubbing the paint off the hood. Other then that the fit is pretty good, as OE as you can get and you can just barely see it when driving. It doesnt stand out at all really, I may just put it on for road trips and leave it off the rest of the time.
 
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