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Old 09-21-2022, 05:54 PM   #1
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Unhappy Any Decent Front Lip/Side Skirt Recomendations?

I've been looking for a decent Front Lip and Side Skirt for my Black 2017 Toyota 86. I do a ton of highway driving and I'm not looking to buy anything extremely expensive, but trying to find a decent kit on the cheaper side (Under $1000 Total) is proving to be very frustrating. It seems all I can find are products that have 0 or mostly negative reviews.

Particularly the front lip, the only lips I can find that are under 600 dollars or so are things like IKON. I don't care particularly of the quality of the product since its a front lip and all, but I certainly don't want something that will fall off or damage my bumper after a short amount of time.

Does anyone have experience or with any relatively cheap lips/skirts?



I'd like to vinyl stripe up the bottom like this, and I'm considering just forgetting about the lip and putting it on the car directly. Any thoughts?


Any insight or opinions would be helpful

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As you have discovered there are really only two categories when it comes to this sort of thing.
You can get quality stuff but it is going to cost more because they actually care or you can get cheap crap made by some 8 year old in China and they don't give a hoot about quality or reviews.
There is very little in the middle I am afraid.
You can take a chance on the cheaper ones since sometimes they are fine but you just never know until you get it.
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You can get quality stuff but it is going to cost more because they actually care or you can get cheap crap made by some 8 year old in China and they don't give a hoot about quality or reviews.
Now that's just racial stereotyping.

Most are at least 9 years old and their little hands are quite good for detail work.
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I got this Chinese POS thing from ebay about 10 years ago. Turns out it's my second favorite mod. I absolutely hated those fang things on the front of the car. I had semi-permanent bruises on my ankle from bumping into the damn things in the garage.
This thing has saved my ankles and my front end many times. It's made out of cheap urethane but is almost indestructible
It might not be showcar quality, but it cost like 200 bucks and has lasted 10 years.
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I got this Chinese POS thing from ebay about 10 years ago. Turns out it's my second favorite mod. I absolutely hated those fang things on the front of the car. I had semi-permanent bruises on my ankle from bumping into the damn things in the garage.
This thing has saved my ankles and my front end many times. It's made out of cheap urethane but is almost indestructible
It might not be showcar quality, but it cost like 200 bucks and has lasted 10 years.
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Yep. I had good luck with the $70 eBay rear diffuser I put on the FRS. It was a total pain to get to fit right but once I did it served as a snowplow for half the year and took it like a champ.

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