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09-16-2022, 12:48 PM | #15 |
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All the screws are gone except one. And the plastic around the bumper holes is still intact!
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Because you expected the dealer to cover it. Show me where it says the STI lip is designed for that? It is a vanity part after all.
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09-16-2022, 12:55 PM | #17 |
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The speed itself is not the point. The fact that you hit something at some point at that speed is. You may not know you hit something but you did.
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09-16-2022, 01:09 PM | #18 | |
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The fact that he hit something, at that speed, and that the lip was the only thing damaged, should be something to be thankful for. At least that's how I would see it. Which is the exact reason why I have my lip kit, should I hit something, I rather have the lip kit be destroyed. |
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09-16-2022, 02:35 PM | #19 | |
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My advice is this. Your time is worth more than trying to fight it and the outcome will likely not be in your favor. You can install a new one yourself in about 2 hours and reinforce it with 3M tape. Buy a new lip from Subaru, have it shipped to the dealership and get your free shipping and 15% off parts discount (I don't know if the discount is universal but that's what I do.) Good luck.
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It could have also failed from preexisting damage you didn't know about.
Maybe one time going out to eat you accidentally tapped the curb and didn't know it, caused a crack that slowly grew over time. Then when you decided to be boy wonder on the street the stressed part finally failed. Either way, just buy a new lip on move on with your life.
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It's a consumable. It's like picking up a nail in a tire. It sucks but front lips break all the time. That's why I don't have one...However, my bumper is trashed lol
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09-16-2022, 10:23 PM | #22 |
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Check underneath and see how many mounting points it was secured with.
Entirely possible it was not secured with all the available screws/bolts |
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Out of curiosity, how are people installing front lips?
OP mentions all screws being gone but one - which I would assume to be the one that is holding the leftover lip piece in the picture. I don't think any kind of screw could really hold a lip at such speeds if it is simply screwed through the bottom of the plastic bumper. On my first gen, I was supplied with bolts and nuts which I used to secure the lip to the inside and outside of the bottom of the front bumper (not an STI lip). This would make it literally impossible to create the kind of scenario OP describes unless all the bolts were to come loose. I was in a situation once on the highway in which the car in front of me had something unexpected fly out from the bottom of it and catch my lip. It broke the whole front half of it off. Bolts and nuts were still intact. |
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after installing my oem sti lip, i gave it multiple good yanks and it wanted to pull the bumper off more than anything OEM body parts are usually secured very well and are made to cause the least amount of stress and damage to body panels in the event of an accident(hence the well nuts, not a nut/bolt and washer, that can likely rip the bumper itself should the lip get snagged and pulled) |
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At that speed the air pressure probably pushed down the lip and it touched the ground.
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This is possible. Even a slight rise in the road surface could catch it and BOOM. There isn't enough profile for the wind (even at that speed) to rip it off on it's own but deformation and contact would do the job.
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Might be harder to see from my photo, but my bumper did endure some damage even though the object barely caught my lip. In fact, it tried to pull the whole bottom portion down, and you can see the bottom grille popped out of its clips. The bumper also endured solid scrapes and paint fully rubbed off near the connection points of the lip. |
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