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Air dam tricks
Posted by Noel [Email] (more from Noel) on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:54:56
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If you've had to deal with your air dam and the plastic panels under the car, you know it's no fun and can be pretty frustrating. Here's what I did today and wanted to pass it along.
Last winter my daughter's '95 CS got up close and personal with a snowbank and did a real number on the air dam. I lashed it down with some bungees and all was well. But it was fugly, so I had to do something.
After some hunting, I found a dam in great shape and it went on today. The annoying part of dealing with this thing is the rusted fasteners, so I decided to start fresh, but not with OEM bits.
Go to a GOOD hardware store where you can buy stuff by the piece in the quantities you need. Get a bunch of square plastic license plate fasteners (I grabbed 14). These are about 3/8" or so square and have four prongs on the bottom side. There are a bunch of places you can use these, holding the plastic under-car panels together and to the frame/subframe. They accept a #12 x 3/4 sheet metal screw. Use a screw with a large diameter head or put a washer under the screw head.
To hold the air dam to the body, get #12 3/4" sheet metal screws. These are about the same diameter as the metric ones they replace and work great. And since they are stainless they won't corrode the way the stock ones do.
The "new" air dam is now tight and solid and renews the front of the old car.
And did you know the fog lights have aiming screws? Not sure how much they do, but they can be aimed. Not that it matters a whole lot, given the mediocre quality of the lights.
Take care!
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