Guilia Quadrifoglio - Front splitter question

[milfordkong]

Any Giulia Quad owners had much trouble with scraping the front carbon splitter? It's an issue i've seen a few things around online and wondered how much of an issue it is in day to day use for the owners on here?

Are you constantly having to take care of any undulation in the road to ensure the splitter doesn't scrape? I'm aware some cars have higher ride heights to help but this is not considered to be attractive for the most part.

Are there any options out there for protecting the splitter or mitigating the risks?

Just a little bit concerned that a tiny slip up in a car park could result in a rather nasty bill. I had an Elise once and inched forward just a little too much carelessly resulting in a big bill for fibreglass repair to the front bumper.

Edit - Apologies for the poor spelling in the thread title.

Edited by milfordkong on Wednesday 17th June 16:53

[norchi]

Reverie in Colchester have repaired quite a number of these damaged splitters, their website quotes a minimum £650 plus VAT..... their web page: https://www.reverie.ltd.uk/alfaromeorepairs.php

There is a company in the US who are making a protective 'plastic' skid plate to protect the underside of 4C and some Giulia splitters, however not the QF.... scrapearmor.com they are using polyethylene sheet UHMW which is widely used to protect the underside of rally cars.

I have damaged the spoiler of my QF and I was intending to send it to Reverie and also see if they can trim up some of this UHMW to fit neatly on the underside.... I may look to see whether I can get a few profiles made up elsewhere for others if Reverie are not interested

Don.

Edited by norchi on Wednesday 17th June 21:15

[Dezbo]

Mine is a 2017 so the lowest ride height and touch wood no issues so far but I am extremely careful when going over speed humps, etc and religiously avoiding multi-storey car parks - to protect the alloys on the ramps as well

[smarty156]

As said, just be careful with speed bumps etc.
If the road has some big dips be careful and stiffen up the dampers.

[milfordkong]

norchi said:

Reverie in Colchester have repaired quite a number of these damaged splitters, their website quotes a minimum £650 plus VAT..... their web page: https://www.reverie.ltd.uk/alfaromeorepairs.php

There is a company in the US who are making a protective 'plastic' skid plate to protect the underside of 4C and some Giulia splitters, however not the QF.... scrapearmor.com they are using polyethylene sheet UHMW which is widely used to protect the underside of rally cars.

I have damaged the spoiler of my QF and I was intending to send it to Reverie and also see if they can trim up some of this UHMW to fit neatly on the underside.... I may look to see whether I can get a few profiles made up elsewhere for others if Reverie are not interested

Don.

Edited by norchi on Wednesday 17th June 21:15

Thank you, £650ish is much better than £2k+ so that's really useful info - The UHMW protection sheet sounds like an extremely interesting proposition, I would definitely be very keen on that if I do go ahead and purchase a QF.

[milfordkong]

Dezbo said:

Mine is a 2017 so the lowest ride height and touch wood no issues so far but I am extremely careful when going over speed humps, etc and religiously avoiding multi-storey car parks - to protect the alloys on the ramps as well

Thank you - I guess i'm concerned this will be my daily, and taking so much care day in day out can be difficult to maintain, I doubt i'd be able to completely avoid multi-storeys throughout ownership - I appreciate it's a special car and special cars often come with such concerns so perhaps I need to be thinking a little harder as to if it's the right option for me.

[Dezbo]

I think you’d be ok, speed humps are the main thing to be careful of as some of them are ridiculous and I hear people scraping bog standard cars on them by not slowing down so I’m extra cautious in the Quad

[smarty156]

You'll be fine. Had mine 3 years and not scraped on a speed bump yet.
Only problem I've ever had was in Italy where the hotel car park was underground and the entrance ramp was very steep. Wife got out to check as I went down and it wouldn't have made it so had to reverse back out. That's it though.

[milfordkong]

Cheers chaps - It's a tough one, as it's the only car that I really really desire currently (that would work for my requirements) - Just keen to ensure I don't end up resenting it if I have to pussy foot around everywhere.

I frequently take the dog out for a walk and park on a verge or on a rough road-side parking area often full of potholes and odd angles, I can handle taking care over speed bumps and ramps with steep gradients etc, but if it can't handle situations like that it's a tough one to justify.

[Webdunk]

Only happened twice and it's on roads with big dips. Scuffing is out of sight, well under the car. Zero issues with inclines, speedbumps and the like. 2018 MY.

Potential splitter damage is familiar territory having owned this for a while :-D

[milfordkong]

Webdunk said:

Only happened twice and it's on roads with big dips. Scuffing is out of sight, well under the car. Zero issues with inclines, speedbumps and the like. 2018 MY.

Potential splitter damage is familiar territory having owned this for a while :-D

Cheers!

Ha ha, yep your M3 definitely warrants a little bit of extra care around low lying obstacles with the potential to scrape! That's quite the splitter.