I live in a State where we live in perpetual ice for about half the year. Having not had a new vehicle in 15 years, it never occurred to me that fiberboard was even permissible or ethical for wheel well use. (It is NOT ethical.) If it was to mute sound as I was told, then line the wells with a more appropriate material. If it was to reduce weight for better eco-consciousness, another reason I was told that this papery fiberboard was used; when there exists that much weight already, rational material use for wheel wells such as aluminum or even plastic is not going to matter.

Ice build-up, as is the constant daily occurrence in the far northern on a couple-mile trip routinely, is inevitable and it sticks like a tenacious giant scab or barnacle. It does not come off, and to have to "go to a car wash and hose it off with hot water when it happens" (which is every day) is NOT OK on a brand-new vehicle. It does not knock off, it scrape off; and as a result, it wears on the tires which will cause a greatly reduced life span on the tires and also (as proven in the pictures) tears the papery fiberboard wheel wells and rips them out of their placement and even buckles it in.

Pity more the handicapped owner who thought they were buying a brand new and safe vehicle that would suit their handicap needs, who has to struggle with almost ground-level continual repositioning of the torn fiberboard in trying to tuck it back in the side panel of the vehicle as the ice weight (that does not come off) continues to buckle it in and pull it out/collapses it daily when ice is present (which is usually about half a year here).