Hey guys, so when I first bought my car, the front lip had seen better days. Lots of rock chips, scrapes and other damages. I hated looking at it, so I got it repainted and it cost me a lot to do because of the fact that the previous owner had moulded the lip on and the moulding had to be repaired as well. Anyways, after driving about 2 or 3 days and not hearing a SINGLE scrape, (honestly I drove like 1 km/h over any bump) I went under the car and took a look, and saw that there was already some minor scrapes and chips under my bumper. This pissed me off so much, it hadn't even been a freaking week! So...I went out the the store and bought some painters tape. I know it's ghetto, but it does the job!

Let me know what you think!

This is approximately what you would see if you were looking at the car head on, it was on jacks so I can't get the exact picture:


Little higher:


Side view with me on my ass taking the picture, so I am pretty low:


What I did:


Better angle:


I may come up a bit higher on my bumper during the winter depending on the damage, and I know it will look gay, but I don't have money or space for a winter beater or another paintjob. Also, I realize that I will have to constantly redo the tape job, and 3M is an option as well, but I don't like the look of 3M halfway up the hood (Not to mention it costs a ****load) and I don't mind redoing this, it was quite easy.
Anyways! I hope my bumper is in better shape by the end of this winter. I'm ready for a flaming.

 

Nah, too easy.

 

How about silver duct tape instead?

 

Nah, his car is clearly GOLD

Just live with the scrapes and be careful! Sucks when I scrape but oh well. I have no desire to preserve my car for the next owner since I'm not sure I intend to ever sell it. Enjoy your car!

 

yo call travis at car cosmetix 860-0856 to get that 3m'd... i got mine 3m'd to go underneath that style lip before!
it definitly saves it from looking like crap
and travis is very very well priced... hes done a ton of cars for me

 

^Thanks for the contact. I am looking to get a whole bunch of stuff 3M'd

 

I think it's brutal...

The s2k is a high end roadster, comparable to Z4s and Boxsters. Putting masking tape on an S2000 is like putting spinner hubcaps on a Porsche or double-blade wipers on a BMW. The problem is, some early AP1s are getting cheap enough now for ricer kids to afford, which means they treat the car like another cheap rice rocket Civic or something, and do ghetto shit with their cars. The same thing is happening with E36s too. Those cars used to be classy and awesome, but now you see them all over the place with ghetto shit done to them.

Please please please do the whole s2k community a favour and give your car the dignity it deserves.

 

First of all, Jeff, I don't appreciate you pre-judging anything about me.
Secondly, the "dignity" the car deserves is to not have scrapes on the bottom of the bumper, I think, and 3M is great and all, but paying that much money to have a lip (whose re-repair in the near future is inevitable) 3Med is like throwing several hundred dollars into some fire. I did this because I thought, well, when the lip does eventually crack again at the mold point from bumping and rocks and air pressure and when I need to get it re-repaired, it will cost me a LOT more money to strip the 3M and re-apply it AGAIN.
I would hope you can understand that.

 

Pre judging? Dude you are putting masking tape on a $55,000 car!!! That says it all.

The S2000 heritage, prestige, and respect, has been brought down a notch by this thread.

 

I guess you weren't.