lenFeb
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Contact your nearest Ford dealer regarding this. They need to do the repairs for you free of charge.Where can I buy one?
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Contact your nearest Ford dealer regarding this. They need to do the repairs for you free of charge.Where can I buy one?
Took this car yesterday to visit my inlaws. Not sure how it happen but heard a loud bang. Was able to pull into an Ace hardware and look under the car. The whole front splitter was folded under the car!!!! Went into Ace and bought a ratchet set to remove it. Put the car in reverse to flip the splitter back into normal spot.
SO now my question is.. Anyone else this happen too? Did I do something wrong? Do I replace with stock or aftermarket? Does anyone know of a place that has them in stock?
Can I drive the car without one? Front end lift at high speeds right? but normal driving ok?
Do you think the Sliplo kit would have prevented this?
If the poor tech installs weren't already known to be a widespread issue I'd agree that an animal is a possibility, but it's well established that the techs do not install the part correctly.Are you sure you didn’t nail a squirrel, rabbit or small cat (ie: already dead roadkill)?
Hitting an animal will definitely create similar damage; with as low as the S550’s sit with the standard splitter or a Shelby style splitter it’s easy to get damages from roadkill...
check my post history. Literally just happened about two months ago and Ford tried to say I impacted something to cause it. They didn’t reinstall it properly after replacing the motor. So then they repaired it and it was still installed incorrectly the second time! I showed the service manager same day!Is this what happens when it was installed incorrectly at the dealership?
I keep hearing about it but have not seen any pictures yet...until now.
Good luck!!!Going in today to see whats up. Lets hope for no more damage while it was under the car.
Problem is, even a poorly installed front spoiler doesn’t look “good”.Glad you got this figured out!
It's been interesting, and not in a good way, to watch the dealer network deal with a real performance car for the last five years. I'm sure the GT500 crowd will have similar but different issues with dealer service and PDI install parts. Dealers, over decades, got used to snapping on bits of decorative trim and cleaning cars up for delivery. The trim was never really functional. The splitter on the GT350/R is functional, and it produces enough downforce that it needs all that hardware to stay attached. But decades of practice on purely decorative parts has trained the dealer staff to think that if it looks good, then it is good. When I got my 2016 back in 2016, I talked to the service manager before delivery and told him about the horror stories coming out from mis-installed splitters. When I got mine home, I ran it up on the lift, and sure enough, no screws. Back it went and they got it right the second time.