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Originally Posted by bipolardave
I take a more preventative approach and have a screen of fine wire mesh covering my radiator. Think old fashioned back porch screen door material.
It doesn't keep out the finer dust particles, I'm sure, but keeps the bugs and larger road detritus out.
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I've been doing this for years. well when I got the car from my grandmother she had some screen on there. I've just kept up with it.
I can't tell you about the air flow through the screen, but I can tell you that since I went to an electric fan, the fan only comes on in traffic in the summer time. so I don't think the screen it hurting anything. And it really helps keep the radiator clean. My grandmother lives near the rice fields of the central valley, and my dad lives on a lake netorious for its nats. The bugs can be thick in both places, the screen catches the bugs no problem.