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Old 03-07-2021, 06:23 AM   #4
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Consider the direction of the tail pipe. I had a Rock Guard I tried on my current Chevy and did not take into consideration which position the exhaust tail pipe faces. It faces straight to back. It melted my Rock Guard (now called Rock Tamer).

I see the Ram Laramie (in Google search photos) has the exhaust pipe to the side of the truck. You will probably have better success with your truck.

Consider these mud flaps attach to the hitch you have to have insert into the receiver of your truck, make sure the hitch has no slop in it. On my current truck, it has the larger receiver with an insert for all my hitches. The insert has slop, and there is slop between the insert and the hitch. Slop is OK when towing a travel trailer, there's so much weight on it, you never know there's some slop. But attach tow arms that float and they could have excessive rocking up and down. So, if you are going to have good success with this style of mud flaps, make sure that receiver hitch fits good and tight.

I had mud flaps installed in the wheel wells behind behind all 4 sets of tires. This also works pretty well. No matter how hard you try, your trailer is still going to hit hit with road debris flipping off passing cars and trucks, running both directions. No mater what you do, this cannot be avoided. But at least your own vehicle is not pulverizing the trailer.

Good luck!
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