EcoBeast2.7L

Has anyone ever had this happen, or know why?

Everytime I am driving in the rain and go to brake, water will literally spray up from the top of the front grille or the front of the hood. Weird and sort of dangerous.

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DogDoc

I definitely have noticed it! It is quite a bit of water too. I haven't quite figured out why it happens.

Re-tired

Pretty sure its all in the aerodynamics or the design of the hood- I wonder if lifted trucks still do it?

Its one of a hand-full of annoying things I don't like about this truck- but the least annoying

fredapp

Yes! Mine did it horribly until I leveled the front end. Now I no longer notice it...

Re-tired

Lucky guess on my part

backlash

Pretty sure that has something to do with the active grill shutters opening or closing from what I have read in the past. Changes the aerodynamics when they change and throws water up on the hood.

UnkLeRaRa

I haven't noticed this yet, but I'll keep an eye out.

I noticed that after it rains, the roof holds a TON of water and comes pouring down onto the windshield with the first brake application.

Startled me the first time it happened haha

EcoBeast2.7L

Awesome, I'm leveling mine soon.

Motorsports One

Airflow over the hood at approximately 50 km/h (30 mph) pushes water up the two grooves that run up the length of the hood and keeps it there as long as you keep driving at that speed, accumulating quite an amount of water. When you slow down approaching an intersection, that water starts to run down the grooves as air isn't strong enough to push it up anymore. But since you're still moving, there is still airflow across the front of the truck and up over the front edge of the hood. When that water running down and air flowing over the hood meet, that's when you get the spray right onto the windshield.

This is the reason why I initially installed an OEM Ford hood deflector. I didn't like that it wasn't secured very well at the front edge of the hood and moved a lot under a car wash's air dryer. Then I installed an AVS AeroSkin II (item 436096) and have not had the spray with either one of these products.