for over 2 years now i have heard that people are remaking the upper splitter, i know theres been a few problems with the designs but i thought someone would have mastered it by now!
i've been speaking to someone who deals in trim parts, making plastic door cappings, giving parts a carbon fibre coating etc, i explained the escos bumper spoiler problem to him to see what he thought, he said its not something he could do but he has a fella who makes lots of tricky plastic parts for him, he is going to speak to him about possibley making a batch of the spoilers, he said the biggest cost is the tooling cost (setting up mould etc) but this would be made a lot cheaper by using a good condition spoiler as a mould base.
I explained that it has to be a flexible plastic like the origonal so it dosn't crack as soon as clips something, he was asking if it would be cost affective to do & if people would be happy fitting a non-genuine Ford part, i told him gen ones are no longer avalable & the problems with the carbon cracking.
if they were good good enough i don't see why people wouldn't fit them, as long as they wern't silly money, if they were priced close to the gen ones (about £130 + vat) i'm sure people would buy them.

i've left it with him for a while hoping he can come up with something, even if it means doing a big oreder to start with.
The only thing that puts doubt in my mind is the fact that other peopl have not reproduced them already

 

If it was identicle in shape, colour and texture I would have no probs with buying one

 

As above, if its the same as genuine then i'd have 1

 

as above for £130 defo worth a shot, better than the ebay £500 price tag

 

i would have one and i know of 2 other people who would buy one each aswell!

 

I'd defo take one aswell if they were very close to the OE one

 

i would defo have one too!

 

yep me to

 

should imagine nearly everyone with a spoiler that has rippled would want a nice new flat one.

 

like i said, its only talk at the moment but if the guy can make loads of different parts out of plastic & he has the equipment then i cant see why he couldnt reproduce a spoiler.

 

i would buy a carbon one and get them painted in satin black.

will be flat all day long

cheeRS MAX

 

it won't when it clips something & cracks

 

my carbon ones survived up to now,even when it bottomed out on a humpback it just flexed the bumper and it was fine bar a few scratches underneath i know the rsoc prototype one shrunk when it was removed from mould but ive never heard anymore of it,no one seems to know whats happening with theirs if you can get some made to orig spec/quality then im sure theyll sell like mad

 

that´s why I don´t drive my Lady

 

If somebody could find out from Ford who supplied the original part we might be able to contact them & ask them if they still had the original injection moulds & if so, how much they wanted for them.

This solution has got to be cheaper than getting a new mould made 'cos that will turn out to cost 10s of thousands, ie, what it cost Ford orginally + some extra for inflation & some more 'cos we won't be getting any discount for being a massive customer.

& that's without considering the costs involved in actually getting an injection moulding firm to stop their real work for an hour or so to produce some of these parts for us.

So, in an attempt to sound at least a bit optimistic, does anybody know anybody who worked in the Ford purchasing dept in the early to mid 90's?