Front spoiler protection?
Front spoiler protection?
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TVR33

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3,118 posts

264 months

Thursday 31st March 2005
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I have a Tamora that's getting small dents on the front spoiler, each just a few mm deep and less than a cm across. This is from speed bumps, potholes etc. Often I find I ground the front at very low speed.
Hardly seems worth repairing each one. Seems to me that a rubber adhesive strip or something similar would be a good rubbing strip that you could change every so often. Any ideas?

maddog-uk

2,392 posts

275 months

Thursday 31st March 2005
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I think a common thing on Tamora's is to use insulation tape on the bottom of it. I keep meaning to do it to mine!

Tam Lin

694 posts

282 months

Thursday 31st March 2005
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Alternatively, try the plastic "spine bars" that are used to hold a few sheets of paper together for client presentations, available at most stationers'. These are quite tough themselves, and absorb minor scrapes fine.

Nuggs

4,640 posts

263 months

Thursday 31st March 2005
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I've got similar 'battle scars' on my Chim (including a 3" gouge out of the bottom of the front spoiler where I (noisily and embarassingly) grounded out in a car park with a steep slope :rant:

Tam Lin, the spine bars sound interesting, how would one attach them to the car?

TVR33

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3,118 posts

264 months

Friday 1st April 2005
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Tam Lin said:
Alternatively, try the plastic "spine bars" that are used to hold a few sheets of paper together for client presentations, available at most stationers'. These are quite tough themselves, and absorb minor scrapes fine.


Worth a go thanks, otherwise its the insulating tape. Saw a thread on osmosis in GRP I didn't like the sound of, so wanted to keep the wet out.

TVR33

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3,118 posts

264 months

Tuesday 5th April 2005
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Tam Lin said:
Alternatively, try the plastic "spine bars" that are used to hold a few sheets of paper together for client presentations, available at most stationers'. These are quite tough themselves, and absorb minor scrapes fine.


I have one of these spine bars now, but how do you fix it to the spoiler? Does it grip, or do you use adhesive?

stesrg

1,578 posts

267 months

Tuesday 5th April 2005
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A tripple layer of duck tape should sort it
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