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Offline H Bomb

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Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« on: 06 August 2010, 18:23 »
To be quite honest, this serves me right for being a cheap skate, but, anyway...
   A couple of months ago i bought a cheap and nasty vr6/gti deep splitter off ebay.  This splitter is now somewhere between glasgow and dumfries. It was a terrible fit, ha the word 'fit' dosn't even deserve to be used. But i did think with the amount of bonding products i used it might have managed to stay on.
  So, aye, moral of the story. Probs best to buy geniune parts.  :embarassed:

Anyone else suffered this annoying loss? 
 
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Anyone else managed to keep one on the car for a significant amount of time?

Offline DubSociety

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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #1 on: 06 August 2010, 18:35 »
Ive bought about £100's worth of replicas off ebay with the latest replica being so crap that I had to put it over my kitchen cooker to warm up the plastic and mould it myself to fit it ... that also lasted a week.

HOWEVER, most recently I participated in a group buy on this forum, and bought the best replica ever ... from some polish website, the material is polyutherene (flexible plastic) just like the original and its also an exact, solid fit ... and to this day regardless of the bumps and scrapes, its on my car nice and snug, and looks as good as it did when I first bought it!... guess how much this cost? £20. Same price as the crappy replicas ...

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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #2 on: 06 August 2010, 19:04 »
oh no this doesnt bode wel!!!! ive a replica due for the front of mine!!!!!
Only saving thought is that i got it from poland, might it just be ok??? heres hoping!!!!!

Ill let u know how it goes on (look good quality!)

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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #3 on: 06 August 2010, 19:20 »
i bought mine from eurowagens its flexible polyurethane really good fit

http://www.eurowagens.com/en/featured-products/vr6-deep-front-spoiler-vw-golf-mk3.html

Offline jonnypolish

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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #4 on: 06 August 2010, 19:51 »
Genuine, £15 off the bay, Fits a treat  :cool:
Also got a regular GTI splitter from Benvictors, again Genuine and fits a treat ;)
Think theres a pattern forming here  :laugh:
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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #5 on: 06 August 2010, 19:57 »
yep had a jom, lasted 2 weeks. Got a eurowagens one, lasted 4 months so far
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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #6 on: 06 August 2010, 20:05 »
Eurowagen ones are good, unless you are 120mm lowered and go over speedbumps at 50mph.
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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #7 on: 06 August 2010, 20:19 »
Eurowagen ones are good, unless you are 120mm lowered and go over speedbumps at 50mph.

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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #8 on: 06 August 2010, 20:36 »
thing I dont get about replica splitters is why do people bother when you can get a 2nd hand one off ebay for the same or less :P
I got an old splitter of a Laguna for my old mk3 fiesta (RIP), had to cut and remove a bit from the middle, but was flexible rubber and so pulled round and fit perfect. £5 :) The replicas are all £20+ and usually dont fit or look pants!
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Re: Cheap and Nasty piece of $h!7
« Reply #9 on: 07 August 2010, 14:51 »
thing I dont get about replica splitters is why do people bother when you can get a 2nd hand one off ebay for the same or less :P
I got an old splitter of a Laguna for my old mk3 fiesta (RIP), had to cut and remove a bit from the middle, but was flexible rubber and so pulled round and fit perfect. £5 :) The replicas are all £20+ and usually dont fit or look pants!

VW Original Splitters hold their value and are sought after by everybody .... but yeah, as above the Eurowagens in the best replica in the market.