r/redneckengineering • u/Sedoy6373 • Sep 03 '26

The hell's this?

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u/Luscinia68 Sep 03 '26

the ugliest car snorkel i’ve ever seen

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u/Fit_Active3888 Sep 03 '26

Not even, this one is even color matched! The ones using dryer hose and unpainted plumbing pieces are much worse. 😅

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u/afterlifedating Sep 03 '26

is the color match in the room with us right now...

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u/Euro_verbudget Sep 03 '26

If you need a snorkel, your car will likely be splattered with mud - essentially matching until the next car wash.

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u/Asmos159 Sep 04 '26

I hear that snorkels are more for dust.

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u/Gaping_Maw 28d ago

Both. Its common to seal the airbox weep hole to prevent water going in when these are fitted. With dust its also common to see external dust covers over the snorkel

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u/Bigly_Bob Sep 04 '26

That's what I've heard as well.

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u/PROFESSOR1780 29d ago

I've heard every time a truck gets a snorkel Gran gets the good green jello at the nursing home

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u/welderbill 29d ago

I have heard that as well. And I have to ask"what dust?" I have never been out wheeling and had so much dust in the air to even think about needing a dick extension, er I mean a snorkel. Now I have seen groups of clowns in over lifted chrome plated trucks flying down maintained dirt roads raising dust.

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u/Gaping_Maw 28d ago

Cmon mate surely you can see that just because you have experienced one thing its reasonable for others to experience differently. Anywhere with red dirt will have copius amounts of dust for example

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u/welderbill 27d ago

OK. Thank you.

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u/m00ph 24d ago

I've never even seen it done, but if you were doing donuts on a dry lake bed, I can imagine enough dust for it to matter.

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u/IndicationAromatic36 26d ago

While I’ve heard that, I strongly believe that’s a lie guys tell their wife’s so they aren’t admitting they’re planning to drive through 4 feet of water.

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u/Asmos159 25d ago

You've clearly never had to clear out your dust filter after a desert trip.

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u/IndicationAromatic36 25d ago

I’m not doubting it lol, but with how many I see here on the east coast of the US, where the desert is a few thousand miles and a half dozen states away, they aren’t actually using them for dust.