"I guess I'm looking for pros and cons more than anything." The most abused components on airplanes are tires and wheel pants. Even if you don't operate off grass or dirt strips they just take a beating especially if they are in the prop wash which basically means sand blasted. Already mentioned weight and vibration issues are real considerations. To minimize the ingestion and accumulation of mud/ice/debris I took some 1/4" clark foam and glassed in a bulkhead into each half of my wheel pant around the tire. This also adds a lot of stiffness to the pants instead of having to make them with multiple layers of glass to attain the same strength.
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