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DISCUSSION => Exterior => Topic started by: gravyface on July 07, 2011, 06:13:17 PM

Title: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: gravyface on July 07, 2011, 06:13:17 PM

Lent my car to a friend for the week while I was away, front spoiler is mysteriously missing.  Anyways, obviously it looks like $#%&@! without it and brand-new (if I could find it) would be really expensive.  Any other cars front spoiler fit?  It's the piece right below the foglights; the clips look all intact so I wouldn't be surprised if it was stolen (or it caught a parking tie and pulled it clean off).

Title: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: DesktopDave on July 07, 2011, 06:20:55 PM

Volvo 740 or a VW Jetta are the usual donors.  Aren't the iS lips still available OEM for like $200?

Title: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: gravyface on July 07, 2011, 09:24:15 PM

Quote from: DesktopDave;105156

Volvo 740 or a VW Jetta are the usual donors.  Aren't the iS lips still available OEM for like $200?

Does the Volvo 740 or VW Jetta spoilers a perfect fit or is there significant jiggery-pokery required?

And yup, I see one online for 154.  Need to make sure it's the right one.

Really pains me to spend money on something that was fine a week ago... so many other things I could be putting 150 bucks towards on this car.

Title: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: rjcaptsean on July 10, 2011, 02:52:33 PM

Some find this sacrilegious, but done right, it looks pretty good and very inexpensive.  The only thing I would change (I haven't gotten around to it yet on mine) would be to put a small rod of some sort to pull the lower corner by the wheel in toward the car so it doesn't stick out so far.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1244341 (http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1244341)

One of the benefits of having the lip screwed to the valiance is that it won't come off every time you scrape into a driveway or hit that crazy piece of cardboard/clothes/beer cans that always seem to be on our freeways.

Title: spoiler
Post by: wgfiii on August 14, 2012, 10:10:07 AM

I have one from our 318is, in tact, no cracks, but almost 300,000 miles of bugs and rocks- Alpine White. easy to repaint to match your car.  Yours for $125 plus shipping.  Let me know.

Title: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: tfrain on August 14, 2012, 12:54:05 PM

I think the volvo lip is the way to go!  Infinitely cheaper.

Title: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: tfrain on August 14, 2012, 01:11:49 PM

BUT - you can get an aftermarket reproduction for $90 shipped, which isn't too bad.  If you still have the clips that is - I think they are like $1.50 per.

Title: Re: Front spoiler replacement?
Post by: AutoXSS on March 11, 2013, 07:03:26 PM

Can the difference be told between the repro ones to oem? Got a link or know who sells them?