Review on Smoke-Colored AVS Bug Shield For Ram 1500 Trucks (2009-2018, 2019-2023 Classic Body) With Medium Profile Hoodflector - Excludes Sport/Rebel Models - 1 Piece (Part #21045) by Bob Candfield

Looks nice on my truck. Aside from protecting the paint a bit, I don't know that I've really noticed any difference in bugs on the windshield or anything. A couple departures from the instructions that I took were first the little rubber bumpers they ask you to put on your hood. For one, the thing doesn't move enough to ever touch your hood in the first place unless it's physically struck by something of a big enough size that the thing would probably break anyway. So I attached those to the back side of the shield instead and that worked just fine because I didn't want them possibly marring my paint after a long time. Second, the instructions want you to remove (on a 2015 Ram truck anyway) a rubber flange along the edge of your hood to install this. I actually removed it to start with, but didn't like the idea because it was obviously put there for a purpose, so I put it back on. I installed the shield over this flange and it works just fine with it still on there. The only difference is it makes it a bit more difficult to pull the hood release latch once the shield is installed, but you can still get to it (and I have chubby hands). Overall I'm pleased with the purchase, but the docking of one star is due to the unnecessary items in the instructions I mentioned.