Active air dam removal?

[24stx87]

Has anyone removed the active air dam from their truck? I have a 2024 with the 2.7l and it seems that at highway speeds (above 60 mph) I can feel the wind under the floorboard, sometimes more than others. It doesn’t seem to be the wheel unbalanced or anything else because I feel it more on windy days and on wide open roads with a decent amount of wind. If I go these speeds on non-highways with trees blocking the wind, it seems fine.

wondering if changing the direction the wind is forced under the truck will help- or make it worse by removing the active air dam…

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[Mattysmalls44]

I removed mine about 3 months ago, because I hit a 18whl tire scrap on the hwy... I didnt see any reason in replacing it. I have not noticed any driving issues and I still get good gas mileage. Average of 21.7 over 90k miles 2024 5.0
Hope that helps

 

[crazywayne311]

i hit a dog and took mine off...ended up doing the tremor skid plate so it would have come off anyway

 

[Rineland]

A nice write up linked below on how to remove it. I haven’t taken mine off yet because up until recently I (embarrassingly) had no idea this was standard equipment. I was underneath looking for the source of a thunking sound when going over the culvert at the end of my driveway when I realized that I have one of these air deflectors, which brought me to the below thread on how to remove it.

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/thr...ow-to-instructions-consolidated-update.35520/

 

[andy18_00]

I removed mine and trimmed up the fixed airdam (got the idea from a post on here). I think the trimming makes the truck look better.

 

[24stx87]

I removed mine and trimmed up the fixed airdam (got the idea from a post on here). I think the trimming makes the truck look better.

Any increase or decrease to wind vibrations on the highway?

 

[bjl95mustang]

I’ve noticed some as well with mine removed. I also removed the rubber portion of the fixed dam. I haven’t trimmed mine down using the 1” tape method yet.

No regrets removing mine. I would have already trashed it if it was on there. I’m in the Austin tx area and we have toll roads with 80-85mph speed limits. Lots of debris and tires I’m always having to straddle stuff.

 

[krg0709]

Some on the forum have said their trucks are throwing codes when they removed the active dam, but mine never did on my ‘21. I leveled, put bigger tires, and a tremor plate on around the same time, so I did lose some mpg, but I'm not sure if that was from the active dam or the other mods.

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