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Title: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: JDM82 on 01 March 2009, 13:56

I have a spoiler and side skirts to glue on whats the best adhesive for the job?

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: Conker on 01 March 2009, 16:13

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Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: Wayne on 01 March 2009, 16:39

Tigerseal.

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: Thom89 on 01 March 2009, 19:28

Tigerseal, and other PU based sealers are not the best products to hold heavier parts on your car, use the adhesive that is used to fix bonded windscreens in place, used with the correct primer, that is supplied with the kit, you'll only be doing the job the once
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WINDSCREEN-GLASS-REPLACEMENT-BONDING-ADHESIVE-GLUE-CAR_W0QQitemZ220293527963QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Body_Shop_Supplies_Paint?hash=item220293527963&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14
Tom

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: slicksps on 02 March 2009, 13:59

I used Araldite (and lots of) in August for a spoiler and it's held well.

If you can, bolt these things on as well, you don't want it flying off mid-drive and going straight through someone's windscreen.

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: tnewson on 06 March 2009, 13:18

I've have my arch ripped off and i used a 2 part araldite and it didnt do sh!t!

Get yourself some PU sealant, you have to use it with a mastic gun but it works great! I got mine in black. Stuff works a treat. Sticks like sh!t to cloth

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: Ben Lessani on 06 March 2009, 15:29

Silkaflex?

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: HeidiG on 13 March 2009, 19:20

SikaFlex Black Bus and truck window sealant
i think it is the SikaFlex 255 or 265

Once you bond them on if you want to remove them you wont its dead strong stuff !!!
Make sure you got a good mastic gun as its a pain to get it out of the tube best to warm it up.

Tigerseal is what bodyshops use most of the time

Heidi

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: northeast_gti-t on 17 March 2009, 10:49

Silkaflex thats what a body shop advised me when i asked them  :wink:

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: eightyeightmph on 17 March 2009, 14:33

Yup sikaflex is what you need! :afro:

(http://www.pioner.de/images/Sikaflex_221.gif)

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: Len on 20 March 2009, 08:02

There is an ebay shop that specialises in adhesives of this type.
Sorry cant remember their name but I found them by searching on ebay in the car section for adhesives!
Bought some of their stuff and its great! Used it on my side skirts.

Title: Re: Best adhesive for fitting spoiler,skirts etc?
Post by: Len on 24 March 2009, 19:49

Wayside Adhesives it was!