[wrogers55]

I'm going to second leaving the shields on. I took them off and liked the looks of the clean polished side pipes.....but it's just to dangerous. My ah-ha moment came when our small pup ran up to the car after I got back from a drive and put his front pawn on the pipe. He had done that before on the heat shield with no problem, this time was a mess. Recovered nicely but the shields are back on for good and I'm getting used to the looks just fine.