Prepainted spoilers? Good idea?
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Where is the best place to get prepainted spoilers? And is this a good idea? I'm looking for a rear deck lid spoiler with an aggressive look. I guess these days they have the codes for paint color so should match.
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Originally Posted by egzen75' post='1078582' date='Dec 22 2009, 08:30 PM
Where is the best place to get prepainted spoilers? And is this a good idea? I'm looking for a rear deck lid spoiler with an aggressive look. I guess these days they have the codes for paint color so should match.
I would buy from one of the vendors on the board. Trinity Autosport uses OEM paint.
Contact Nerwyll or Joe. Their member names are nerweezy (nerwyll) and trinityautosport (Joe)
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just don't buy from JBSPEED. My spoiler came in wavy and crooked. Cheap crap for the price that is close to OEM
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Originally Posted by Krozi' post='1078585' date='Dec 22 2009, 08:33 PM
If you buy from eBay, the paint match/quality is hit or miss...
I would buy from one of the vendors on the board. Trinity Autosport uses OEM paint.
Contact Nerwyll or Joe. Their member names are nerweezy (nerwyll) and trinityautosport (Joe)
I would buy from one of the vendors on the board. Trinity Autosport uses OEM paint.
Contact Nerwyll or Joe. Their member names are nerweezy (nerwyll) and trinityautosport (Joe)
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For the spoilers, check out my gallery:
https://5series.net/forums/index.php?autoco...&album=2252
I got mine from eBay, 4M Motors I think. It cost me $180 shipped and painted for the roof and trunk spoilers. So far so good, they have been mounted for quite a while and no problems at all with paint or fit. I would be careful about some because after I bought these a lot of other members had posted about problems with spoilers coming from Taiwan and China and I was worried sick until I got mine and everything turned out much better than expected. Good luck
Here is the group buy I posted a long time ago for them:
https://5series.net/forums/index.php?showto...&hl=spoiler
https://5series.net/forums/index.php?autoco...&album=2252
I got mine from eBay, 4M Motors I think. It cost me $180 shipped and painted for the roof and trunk spoilers. So far so good, they have been mounted for quite a while and no problems at all with paint or fit. I would be careful about some because after I bought these a lot of other members had posted about problems with spoilers coming from Taiwan and China and I was worried sick until I got mine and everything turned out much better than expected. Good luck
Here is the group buy I posted a long time ago for them:
https://5series.net/forums/index.php?showto...&hl=spoiler
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Originally Posted by NeRwEEzy' post='1078903' date='Dec 23 2009, 09:21 AM
for spoilers, we still have a special on the RDSport roof and trunk spoilers
I really like the RD Sport roof spoiler - it looks HAWT!!!!
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Prepainted is fine, but as others said, fit and finish is a crap shoot with unknown vendors.
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