Author Topic: Front spoiler replacement? (Read 7303 times)

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).

DesktopDave · « **Reply #1 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?

gravyface · « **Reply #2 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.

rjcaptsean · « **Reply #3 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

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.

wgfiii · « **Reply #4 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.

tfrain · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2012, 12:54:05 PM »

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

tfrain · « **Reply #6 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.

AutoXSS · « **Reply #7 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?