Front Chin Spoiler
05-28-2008, 10:30 AM
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Front Chin Spoiler
First off, I LOVE my new car!!! My other sports car is an 06' F430 F1.....I like them both equally which is saying a lot because the 430 up till now was the best car BY FAR I have ever driven.......OK now my issue with the Turbo is.....Why the flimsy front spoiler?? Is there a way to reinforce it? I have carbon fiber skid plates on the 430 that work great, but I cant imagine any way to attach anything to the Turbo's front chin. Im VERY accustomed to going slow and on an angle when going up or down driveways etc, but I have already scraped up the chin a bit.
What can I do?
What can I do?
05-28-2008, 11:59 AM
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Unfortunately, there isn't much of an option here. The lower chin spoiler is subject to scrapes and scratches very easily.
The only thing that I have heard of people doing is buying extra replacements, so when they get messed up bad enough they just put a new one on.
I wish we would have paid more attention to how easily this piece gets damaged. We optioned to have it painted to match (cobalt blue) so we can't just put a new piece on there without getting it painted.
The first scrape is the hardest
After that, we all just learn to live with it.
The only thing that I have heard of people doing is buying extra replacements, so when they get messed up bad enough they just put a new one on.
I wish we would have paid more attention to how easily this piece gets damaged. We optioned to have it painted to match (cobalt blue) so we can't just put a new piece on there without getting it painted.
The first scrape is the hardest
After that, we all just learn to live with it.
05-28-2008, 12:44 PM
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Unfortunately, there isn't much of an option here. The lower chin spoiler is subject to scrapes and scratches very easily.
The only thing that I have heard of people doing is buying extra replacements, so when they get messed up bad enough they just put a new one on.
I wish we would have paid more attention to how easily this piece gets damaged. We optioned to have it painted to match (cobalt blue) so we can't just put a new piece on there without getting it painted.
The first scrape is the hardest After that, we all just learn to live with it.
The only thing that I have heard of people doing is buying extra replacements, so when they get messed up bad enough they just put a new one on.
I wish we would have paid more attention to how easily this piece gets damaged. We optioned to have it painted to match (cobalt blue) so we can't just put a new piece on there without getting it painted.
The first scrape is the hardest
After that, we all just learn to live with it.
05-28-2008, 01:10 PM
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It's a <$200 consumable part, unlike the 993 which scrapes the whole bumper cover.
05-29-2008, 07:45 PM
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Great car - too quiet - front lip or spoiler constantly being scratched no matter the speed or angle (in Florida with big drains) - worse problem, the inner fender wells which are a plastic composite are easily damaged by the same drains when the flap in front of the tire hits vertically and is not pushed back - fortunately, they are easy to replace.
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