For those of you who drive I-25 in Wyoming

[MTMan]

From time to time I travel I-25 across Wyoming and noticed the front doors making a howling noise with the wind. Is there a fix for this?

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[Gros Ventre]

From time to time I travel I-25 across Wyoming and noticed the front doors making a howling noise with the wind. Is there a fix for this?

Yes, don't drive in Wyoming... where there's always wind... Forgive me for being flip... but the wind in Wyoming can be pretty nasty. I've driven on I-80 with a headwind that cut mpg to 12.

 

[Gros Ventre]

As an example, It is regularly seen that I-80, I-25, & I-90, along with certain key secondary roads (South Pass and a few others) where these roads are closed to 18 wheelers running light. This is because of tip overs. Some years ago, driving west out of Laramie, I counted 18 tip overs on the side of I-80. Never seen a closure for winds applied to smaller trucks, pickups or passenger cars, but there've been days I wondered...

 

[MTMan]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I've seen the same things here in Montana around Livingston. There was a travel trailer convoy transporting west and had one destroyed. It looked like a box of matchsticks scattered. An old timer said he was getting off the off ramp there in the 70's driving a VW bus and the wind tipped it over on its side.

On a modern truck though, I was wondering if I should take it in. Drivers door looks a hair lower than the back door.

 

[FaaWrenchBndr]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I've seen the same things here in Montana around Livingston. There was a travel trailer convoy transporting west and had one destroyed. It looked like a box of matchsticks scattered. An old timer said he was getting off the off ramp there in the 70's driving a VW bus and the wind tipped it over on its side.

On a modern truck though, I was wondering if I should take it in. Drivers door looks a hair lower than the back door.

I used to hunt in the Livingston area back in the mid nineties. I had an 87 Ramcharger with a 318. The wind killed that truck……blew it all over the road.

Good times though…….I do miss Montana

 

[superfordman]

Welcome to Wyoming... where you'll usually have a headwind going both directions no matter what. Where is the noise coming from exactly? If you're heading into a strong headwind then most likely not much to do about it. Is what it is. I've heard it on mine at times.

 

[wyoming]

Have lived here for north of 30 years now, and every vehicle I’ve ever owned seems to find a way to make a whistle when you’re doing 85mph into a 60mph headwind.

My 2024 is pretty quiet unless you’re getting the crosswind into the drivers side, then it seems to whistle a bit. Last truck was the opposite and seemed to hate the negative pressure from the other side.

 

[MTMan]

Best I can tell it howls in high wind around the a pillar and door.

 

[superfordman]

Ya, is what is then, it'll be fine, just annoying. Remember they design these in Michigan and not where the wind blows ?

@wyoming does you 24 seem any better when passing on coming traffic/trucks mainly with regards to the hood? Both my 21 & 23 depending which way the wind is blowing and when I pass one, I swear the hood looks like its going to fly off as much as it flexes on the front left hand side.

 

[wyoming]

Ya, is what is then, it'll be fine, just annoying. Remember they design these in Michigan and not where the wind blows ?

@wyoming does you 24 seem any better when passing on coming traffic/trucks mainly with regards to the hood? Both my 21 & 23 depending which way the wind is blowing and when I pass one, I swear the hood looks like its going to fly off as much as it flexes on the front left hand side.

My 2020 seemed to flex a lot in the wind, and my wife’s 19 expedition does too.

I’m not sure if it’s the light color of my 24 and I just can’t see the flex, or the tremor hood vents stiffen it up, but it seems to move less than my past ones.

But I’m also just entering the first windy season with this truck, so that may change, ha.

 

[Gros Ventre]

What I'm wondering is when the Wyoming winds will blow a pickup off the road... You know, with a typical layer of ice/compacted snow on the road and 80 kt winds...

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