stolen e30 "is" lip spoiler

[TwoJ's]

are you positive it didn't fall or get ripped off while you were driving?

[Wishno87]

sorry to hear about your lip. you should unclip and take it with you whenever you leave your car anywhere:up:

[ANDRÜ]

After i sold my e30 (sig) to my friend the lip was stoel too. Then the car was backed into....

[clavinZERO]

are you positive it didn't fall or get ripped off while you were driving?

+1

[Teaguer]

Says the guy with the MS paint edited pic to hide his own crusty valence.;)

You dissapoint me for being an OG . :tsk:

That line about MS paint was meant for the noobs . ;-)

[Julien]

I had a 318is guy living down my street that looked a bit shady.. every time i left for more than 1 day i took the lip in :-).. Maybe you will find it again? Best of luck


Julien

[LINUS]

Is it that impossible to upgrade the fasteners to something like square drive, Torx, or hex socket screws & either double nut or like suggested, a light tac with a welder. Even pop rivots sound like a good solution, and I hate pop rivots.

I've never done a IS lip, so I don't know how the clips work - just throwing out some ideas in case using a little extra hardware would cure the problem.

[DarkWing6]

the lip just clips on. no screws invloved. it would take about 10 seconds to remove one.

[parkerbink]

Sorry for your loss, the only thing that saves them from destruction is that they pop off. Are you 100% sure you did not lose it? Mine came off with very little impact.

[LINUS]

the lip just clips on. no screws invloved. it would take about 10 seconds to remove one.

I have been told that, so that's all I really know - but is there a way to use a few extra fasteners?

If there's a spot (or a few spots) with 2 parallel planes with surface area large enough to seat a screw head, that would be where I'd run a pop rivot & backer washer, or one of the others I mentioned.

Is there just no areas like that? - I never have seen the whole deal up close, just told that it clips in.

I'm going to see if I can't find a pic, maybe that will answer the whole thing for me. I'm guessing the screw thing wouldn't work, or people would have started doing it long ago.

[DarkWing6]

you can screw them in and a lot of people do or at least setup a ziptie system

[Arpegius]

Thanks everyone for all the good suggestions. I am pretty sure it didn't fall off I had to tug on it to take it off whenever working on the fogs. Also the clips are in tact so I don't think it got ripped off. I kind of just figure I would cut my losses and get a new one and do what you all said and bolt that shit on there. I even thought about bolting it on a while back but I never really figured somebody would be that big of a dick bag to steal another mans chin spoiler. Karma will get him. Ignorance will be the death of us all.

oh and if anybody knows of somebody selling a chin spoiler please let me know. thanks.

[Jonathan M3]

You dissapoint me for being an OG . :tsk:

That line about MS paint was meant for the noobs . ;-)

You fail at innernetz for not realizing I was stirring the pot for the noobs.:D

[Maluco]

I had a 318is guy living down my street that looked a bit shady.. every time i left for more than 1 day i took the lip in :-).. Maybe you will find it again? Best of luck


Julien

LMAO!!!! Classic E30 obsession/paranoia. The 1/4" bolt idea may be for you.

[Maluco]

You fail at innernetz for not realizing I was stirring the pot for the noobs.:D

You succeeded. Teaguer got +1'ed by a noob. lol. We all know that's a freshly painted 3M quality job.