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May 18, 2008 | 12:50 AM

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Jujutzin

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how about some kind of rhino lining on the lip? Its black, but it has texture and you dont have to worry about scuffing it up even more.

May 18, 2008 | 01:58 AM

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jdjohnson9

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Did you ever come up with anything to fix your lip problem? Just curious.

May 21, 2008 | 09:07 PM

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Sugarphreak

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Originally Posted by jdjohnson9

Did you ever come up with anything to fix your lip problem? Just curious.

No not yet, I am still trying to get some time to get some paint chips fixed up first. I will touch up the lip when I get around to it. I am going to layer on some serious car wax after everything looks good.

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Originally Posted by Jujutzin

how about some kind of rhino lining on the lip? Its black, but it has texture and you dont have to worry about scuffing it up even more.

This sounds like a pretty sweet idea, I am going to look into this a bit

May 21, 2008 | 09:19 PM

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Giggles

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Originally Posted by fitoromocto

What the chance that someone do some magic with photo shop to see how the lip would look like in flat black...

Check out this thread

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-...it-thread.html

Jul 23, 2008 | 08:36 PM

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Fat Ping Cat

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ah, so funny you should bring this up as today i finally got around to taking care of that problem..

well i only had my car for 3 weeks before i scraped it. i had no idea, my last vehicle was a truck, i even angled the car but it apparently wasn't enough. now knowing this i try to avoid those situations.

hah the dealer forgot to take off the protective tape, i'm glad they did

it was kinda visible if you looked at it head on.. or even standing up, so this really irritated me being that its a BRAND NEW CAR! so in the meantime i covered up the scratches with vinyl electrical tape. it stayed on the car for like two months until today when i took it off.. i recommended covering up your scratches with that if it is really bothering you. with the black tape on you can't even notice it....

the point is you know those scratches are there... so thats what got to me, so finally i broke down and got some HERCULINER which is a truckbed liner and applied that to the front lip underneath. this way it won't be a huge deal if you scrape it again, which you will and it will keep the paint from peeling and falling off the rest of the lip.

it took me a couple of hours to apply. prep is everything. i was extremely careful as so how i taped it and also took care to scuff all of the paint with sandpaper. (during which i couldn't believe i was sanding the paint of a brand new car) but i am extremely happy with the results, it looks pretty clean.

you don't have many choices when it comes to this... you can do what i did, touch it up with paint, get a whole new lip, or.. live with it which most everyone here does.. (but that wouldn't be good enough for me

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clean? i feel like they should have put something like that under there to begin with.

(you can hardly notice it's there)

sorry so many pictures, thats my solution..

>HERCULINER, 3M painters tape, acetone, rubber gloves, sandpaper, and 2 hours

repost here... if anyone was curious as to how that would turn out... this thread actually gave me the idea back when i first scraped it.

Jul 25, 2008 | 01:12 AM

#26

Jujutzin

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From: Carson City, Nevada

Man, I gotta do this soon. Maybe I'll do a little in the rear and the sides, make it kind of match up. Looks good and helps you from worrying too much! Nice!