Slantnose!

Hello.
Just caught the bottom left side of the S4 front spoiler and ripped it forward and off, to the point the front intake is.
A bunch of plastic and foam and screws and clips fell out.
That corner is now on the ground.
I tried searching, but nothing is coming up...
Is there a diagram of how this goes back on and/or what parts go where?
Are these destroyed once this happens?
Looks like the fender liner is hurt too.
Thanks.

Mike Frye

According to Pet-6:





Don't know what's up with the foam you saw.

Mrmerlin

sorry to hear about the damage, anyway the foam is part of the edge seal in the foward fender liners, or block off plates?, if you have ripped the lower spoiler and the rips are not long you may be able to use some aluminum sheet and rivet the pieces back together, however if you ripped the bolts out of the lower fender attach points this may make reassembly more difficult. You can usually get away with using over sized fender washers to help hold the liners in place once they have been cracked or torn, it should be obvious what you need to do to correct the damaged spoiler, Otherwise you can always replace all of the fender block off plates and the lower spoiler IE very expensive, if you do order the new block off plates dont forget to order the foam strips this helps keep out dirt and helps keep parts from rubbing on the inside of the fenders, Try to straighten any bent metal first. The pictures that you need depicting the fender block off plates have not been posted they are in the body group of the pet

heinrich

I don't use one.

dr bob

What Stan said...

A parking-lot bumper grabbed the spoiler on my car early in my ownership period. It broke the finder liners but I was able to lift the car enough to get it back over the bumper without tearing the spoiler itself from the car. Note to self in future-- Don't park right up on those bumpers! Forgot once, another front liner. The front liner panels are about $50 each last time I looked. I also picked the front ride height up to original height since then, although the parking bumpers are still a bit taller than the spoilier clearance. Have some pretty new hardware shipped with them; It dresses up the wheelhouse enough to justify the few extro $ IMHO.

Be especially careful as you disassemble, taking care to remove the alternator cooling hose and the temp sensor assy that lives in the LF section, on the forward face of that front liner panel. The rear/top liners come out first. Once the liners are out of the wheelwells and the forward belly pan is off, , it will be very obvious what goes where as far as fasteners and such.

Slantnose!

Thank you so much for the help.
I just got back in...
Raised it up, with my laptop close by for reference and it is worse than I thought.
The inner fender liner is cracked and so is the actual nose (body) that the clips/spoiler attaches to.
What is really unbelievable is that it looks like it was broken before (had tape holding some of the clips and noticed two rusty sheet metal screws up there) so who knows.
Obviously, with a little help on my part, a temporay repair has let go.
I guess the new question is, how do I get the spoiler to stay up correctly if the holes from the body are gone?
Thanks.

Mrmerlin

The fenders have holes in them and there should be nut plates that slide onto the fender slots if these are broken and the nut plated cant be reattached then you may have to go the Heinrich route