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Old Sep 27, 2013 | 08:45 PM
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Anyone with a painted front spoiler?

I am considering having my front SPASM spoiler painted body color. I trust myself not to run into any curbs, but I do wonder how durable the paint would be given it's proximity to road debris, rocks, etc. Perhaps clear film protection.

Anyone else done this? Pictures? Testimonials?
 
Old Sep 27, 2013 | 09:25 PM
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It's as robust and durable as anything can be. I've scraped mine many times, without an issue so far. I was very skeptical and many instilled fear/uncertainty/doubts by quoting how bad their experience has been with their un painted front lip (falls off easily/breaks loose etc etc)...991 with spasm is brilliantly designed car that hardly scrapes any speed bumps, ramps etc. I just use my good judgement and drives down ramps (watch out for steep ramps downwards where these meet horinzontal road surfaces/sometimes dips depending how poor these are made) at an angle/sideways. I've had mine as a daily driver for over 8months now with 5.7K miles without any problems. And did I mention, it looks awesome!!!!

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Old Sep 27, 2013 | 09:29 PM
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^^^ Great feedback! Thanks!
 
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Since my 991 is all black, I feel like I already have a painted front spoiler Actually with a black car, it saved me all that extra money no having to paint the mirror bottoms, rear diffuser, and even the key matches the car without the $300+ cost to match the key to the car color.
 
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Originally Posted by lrattner
since my 991 is all black, i feel like i already have a painted front spoiler actually with a black car, it saved me all that extra money no having to paint the mirror bottoms, rear diffuser, and even the key matches the car without the $300+ cost to match the key to the car color.
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I'm just rounding 20k miles after 1.5 yrs without anything more than the occasional scrape
 
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Funny I was just envisioning if I had a black car would I go for the painted option? Probably not...you save not only $3K for GT Silver paint but also this. One thing I've gotta tell you, the finish on the painted parts is amazing - just like rest of the shiny paint but black unpainted plastic still looks and feels like plastic....
 
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