It looks like my car is going to have issues with the $hitty roads in my neighborhood and city. Potholes and frost heaves too frequent to always avoid. I am looking at the contact point with the lowest part of the front plastic and wondering about covering ground zero with something a little more resilient than just the yellow paint. It is practically invisible unless you are laying on the ground so there should be a few simple options. I can repaint the scraped area and go with some kind of opaque plastic(something like that Duraguard $hit Ford used to put on their rocker panels)or even go with some kind of a black rubbery undercoating sort of thing. The latter would be uglier, but again, very hard to see and it would be easy to touch up after any scraping epsisodes. Either way I am thinking of maybe a 2" wide strip at most. Anyone have any better ideas?
Any ideas for protecting the bottom of the front fascia from scraping?
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twinturbo3150
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PaulH
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A cheaper option than the chinguard is a set of rubber bumpers from sean roe:
http://www.roeracing.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=16&idproduct=72
I had them on my Gen1... When I scraped something below, one of the guards fell off, but my fascia was unscraped! I just put some adhesive and put it back on... great product.
http://www.roeracing.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=16&idproduct=72
I had them on my Gen1... When I scraped something below, one of the guards fell off, but my fascia was unscraped! I just put some adhesive and put it back on... great product.
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You will have to lift the car, like any SUV.
2" is fine.
Although, I have to admit it will look odd.
2" is fine.
Although, I have to admit it will look odd.
SNAKE BITE
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the roe kit says for 97 and newer, why wouldn't it work on my 94?
Supercharged Vipermad
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Because GEN I fascias do not have the lowest "lip". The bumpers will work with any GEN....but the long stip od metal reinforced edge guard will not...no edge.
Saint_Spinner
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If you further look at that site, Roe sells front guards for Gen I's....probably a little bit cheaper too.
zen garage
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I dont think you can get much cheaper than $3.24
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4623428769&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4623428769&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT
santo
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If you buy the whole kit. I'll buy the strip from you. PM me if interested.
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ViperJames
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I would check with Redenuf93....I think he would probably know best.
