Hello from Maine

I read an article many, many years ago how UPS washed their jets frequently, not so much to reduce drag, but to reduce weight. When you considered the weight of a light coat of grime over the entire surface area of a 747, it added up.

My A&P mechanic tells me I shouldn't wash and wax my airplane because the paint is so thin on them to keep the weight down that I could end up rubbing it all off. But I ignore him 'cause I like it to look real purdy too. No serious buffing though.

Not specifically about stickers but in aviation there's a debate about how much less drag/more speed you get if you wash and wax your plane, which all the racers do. So some guys did a before and after study on a Mooney M20 (a pretty fast low drag plane), and it picked up about 2.5 mph. My math-free guess is that would translate to something close to 0.0 mph in a boxy slow speed high drag travel trailer. IOW, negligible change if you have stickers or not or if you wash and wax it or not. Anyone surprised?

Markuendo, I put an emoji with a wink, as I was kidding.  We did peel off all the graphics because they were old and looked awful.  Given the value of a 2009 trailer when we did it, it would not have made financial sense to spend any money on new graphics and the labor to apply them.  When I got all the old loops off, and had a pure white fluffy cloud of a trailer, it seemed to me that it would still keep us out of the rain and mosquitos just fine sans stickers.  I looked into getting a graphics sticker to put on the back with the name White Cloud, but it was too expensive and added nothing to the value of the trailer.  

Originally posted by lostagain Welcome Old.  You will find your 172 has much less resistance with the graphics removed.  We peeled off the worn out graphics on our 172, put a coat of Meguiars and noticed an immediate improvement on our mileage.    We thought about naming the 172 White Cloud, but decided adding more graphics might increase the wind resistance.