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Spoiler Change and the reason your TRD spoiler is not as light as you may think.


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Well i had a bit of a change of mind tonight and i thought I'd change the spoiler back to stock. The diffuser is staying on for good as I love it. Just having a bit of indecision regarding the spoiler :)

 

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While changing this over I answered the question i've been asking myself for the last few months. "Why does my boot not stay open?" I figured it was because my boot struts were on the way out. I was wrong.........

 

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Thanks fellas.

 

I'm torn between all three. It's stock at the moment and will be staying that way for a while. We'll see how I like it and decide what i'm doing before the pod :)

 

We we're so surprised with the first upright, Marc grabbed my toolbox and used that to try and channel the water out of the boot.

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Just imagine if there had been freezing temperatures !! Bye Bye spoiler :( One of the local supra owners to me has a TRD and exactly the same thing happened to his and it froze over winter and cracked the paintwork. Thankfully it didn't crack the spoiler as it was stored inside.

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I took my spoiler off the other week when the car was up at Hodge's and I bet I got 4 pints of water out of it. The water gets in through the holes where the blade meets the supports. I'll be running a beed of silicone around the edge of the blade when mine comes back from the body shop. I didnt have a bag or bottle to catch the water so I used my face and my T shirt :)

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I took my spoiler off the other week when the car was up at Hodge's and I bet I got 4 pints of water out of it. The water gets in through the holes where the blade meets the supports. I'll be running a beed of silicone around the edge of the blade when mine comes back from the body shop. I didnt have a bag or bottle to catch the water so I used my face and my T shirt :)

 

Wouldn't like to be drinking that water ;)

 

Yea i seen where it was entering after i took it apart and that's exactly what i'll be doing when/if i make it back up again. Descisions Descisions :)

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I prefer stock, but when my spoiler was off while having a damn good clean, I was really impressed with the agressiveness look of the car.

 

If I was you, I would fill the little square locator holes properly, then get some grommets for the main fixings holes, and when you fancy a change you can go stock/spoilerless, and not ruin anything in the process.

 

The amount of water you had there was unreal! :blink:

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