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Old 03-14-2012, 12:22 PM
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CF splitter, can it be repaired?

random rock on the high way took out a chunk of my splitter. just need to know if it can be fixed or is it a total loss.






 
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I doubt if it can be repaired to look like it did, sand it lightly and reclear for a custom look....Gary
 
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dude, that must have been quite an intense rock!
 
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time to go buy a real splitter lol i was at a drift even not too long ago and saw some that could shatter a brick
 
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What my shop did to fix the chip on my splitter was fill it with fiberglass, sand, and re-clear it. But my chip was only like .5" x .5" big, nothing like yours, lol. So you can't really tell its there. You might be SOL.
 
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get a dremel and customize the cutout... worth a short since its missing a big chunk already.
 
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yea it is in the center you could make that look somewhat stylish
 
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Originally Posted by jiggawuah
dude, that must have been quite an intense rock!
or was it a rock?

mine is the exact same way... i dont think it was the rock because if the splitter isnt bolted down with many screws the splitter will get pushed down and scrape it making it look like that.

How fast were you going?
 
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Old 03-14-2012, 08:07 PM
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It can be repaired but whoever does it might have to wrap the whole thing in CB again for it to look right. The easiest thing would be to repair it (fiberglass) and then paint the whole thing black, it will still look good on your car.
 
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Old 03-14-2012, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by GEDsetG35
or was it a rock?

mine is the exact same way... i dont think it was the rock because if the splitter isnt bolted down with many screws the splitter will get pushed down and scrape it making it look like that.

How fast were you going?

No no I swear it was some random *** rock in the middle of the highway at night. I was only going 65.


I would assume sanding it down and reclearing it would be the cheap option. But how much would repairing it with glass run me?

Know what, this is what I get for putting something that cost me 200 buckos and putting it on my front bumper barely 3 inches from the ground
 

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That's one reason I don't really like having anything made of fiberglass in the front of the car. The splitter looks like it's made of fiberglass and then they wrapped it. Would have fared better if it was made of a different material.
http://www.fiberglassforums.com/auto...p-project.html
 
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Originally Posted by DKano
That's one reason I don't really like having anything made of fiberglass in the front of the car. The splitter looks like it's made of fiberglass and then they wrapped it. Would have fared better if it was made of a different material.
http://www.fiberglassforums.com/auto...p-project.html
now that's a splitter
 
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^ ha yeah it is. I wonder how much it weighs
 
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Yea mine looks worse.

It's time for a new splitter!!
 
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Originally Posted by DKano
That's one reason I don't really like having anything made of fiberglass in the front of the car. The splitter looks like it's made of fiberglass and then they wrapped it. Would have fared better if it was made of a different material.
http://www.fiberglassforums.com/auto...p-project.html
Damn, that's pretty cool. But that's an insane amount of work and probably weighs 20+lbs. Even if that hit a rock, the splitter itself would fare better, but it'd still probably demolish the cf wrap over it and require a full re-cover.
 


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