linderpat

I just installed them on mine (86.5). I had the Eibach springs put on recently, and they unfortunately lowered my ride height. The plates have protected me/saved me a few times already, but don't let those simple directions fool you - they were (at least for me) a bit of a b*tch to install. Of course, changing a damn light bulb on my car typically becomes a "project"

Nicole

I wish there was a belly pan all the way to the battery box...

928Myles

I have installed a 50mm by 5mm steel plate that bolts onto the frame by where the tie down eyes are & runs under my oil cooler. My from spoiler & aluminium belly pan bolt onto this plate. A little heavy but provides good protection for those low bits.

Cost me $20- to get made up at the local shop - cheap insurance.

Myles

heinrich

bellypan is useless for that. Nice shield in the pic. I want one. If alt is broken off so is the ac. Check the block.

heinrich

Totally agree

6mil928

Never thought about that. I bottomed the 81 out a while back on a bump by accident and my alternator is jacked again. Is that what hits if you bottom out the front of the car? I too have no belly pan.

Nightfly

A/C compressor is safe. Only hit on the left side. Scraped the oil filter a tiny bit, it was dripping very slow. Oil pan looks alright, no leaking (well, no more than before the accident, anyway). Everything else looks o.k.. But when the alternator broke off, and cracked apart, who knows what shorted out where. I've been under the car while the car is up on a lift, don't see anything else broken. But the electricals are fouled up. I went back there in the daylight; the road runs along side of Rt 21 in Passaic, looks like they've done multiple patch jobs over the years, but a couple of 'repaired' parts of the road are elevated, it looks like Ho Chi Min trail after a bad re-paving. No warning signs to indicate the condition of the road, though. It looks fine as you cross hope street intersection, no warning of what's to come. It's 'Madison Street', between hope and canal street, if any of you ever wind up in Passaic city in New Jersey and are following a GPS directions to get back to the highway after turning off to get food. That's what happened to me.

MGW-Fla

A couple of years ago, Don Berry hit a pot hole on I-95 in the middle of Orlando. His alternator was toast, not sure what else. I think he ended up getting payment from someone, perhaps the DOT.

ew928

If no one's said it yet might want to check the battery.
Think there's big power cable running from battery to alternator. Unfused power cable.


And people laugh at my Cayenne 195mm ish ride height.

6mil928

After reading this I'm going to have to look at the new alternator that's going out again.