[Function7]

Wife bought me a "Hamann" front spoiler for Xmas and was a little lazy and didn't get around to installing it until today.

Didn't get any hardware with the spoiler (it was ordered from Modbargains but shipped direct from Taiwan) and so I had to get creative and used rivet nuts (nutserts) to mount the lip. Since the rivet nuts work nicely in blind holes I didn't want extra holes on the bottom surface of the spoiler to collect dirt, etc.

I laid out the bumper on the lip to figure out where to put the mounting holes. I used a 1/8" drill to make some pilot holes through the bumper and lip spoiler.

1. Drill hole for rivet nut - Drill only in the top surface and don't drill completely through.


2. Install rivet nut/nutsert


2.a (repeat 1 & 2)


3. Screw onto bumper


4. Pause to admire your work


5. Install bumper back on M3 and admire your work some more


more pics:
http://adrianteo.com/images/M3-lip/index.html

-AT

[williemandowa]

very informative thread lip looks great, doesnt look like you have lowered your car does lip ever scrub

[05silverM3]

Looks great
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[lucky_doggg7]

Looks great! Having that front spoiler on a lowered car really makes negotiating steep angled drives and entrances a real challenge. Last week, I literally tore the one off the front of my car, and worse yet, it was a real Hamann I bought used in primo shape! I liked the look so much, I saw Jo @ Euro Dyne and bought their version of the front spoiler. So the lesson from this, be careful and drive in at an angle. Cheers.

[alkemyst]

what size nutserts did you use?

[ZkansasZ]

look really good

[Wookie420]

Hey guys,

I'm a new member here so I can't PM yet, so does anybody know Function7 the OP? I'd really like to know where he got those rivet nuts, what size they are, and a few other questions. Where I can order them, any specialty tools required, etc. ?? Thanks in advance!

[alkemyst]

He replied to me a while ago, M6 x 1. You just want to find a nutsert tool and then whatever nutserts/fasteners.

I went with this one:

Amazon.com: Metric Nutsert Tool Kit In Metal Case: Automotive

Amazon.com: Metric Nutsert Tool Kit In Metal Case: Automotive

[Function7]

Originally Posted by Wookie420

Hey guys,

I'm a new member here so I can't PM yet, so does anybody know Function7 the OP? I'd really like to know where he got those rivet nuts, what size they are, and a few other questions. Where I can order them, any specialty tools required, etc. ?? Thanks in advance!

Got the M6x1 nutserts from Grainger (we buy a lot of our last minute industrial supplies from them so I had a catalog). The bolts came out of our bolt parts bin meant for the stuf we make/sell (we do everything in metric at our company, from our design to CNC machines and even our hardware, so that's what I ended up using). I bought a bag of 100 nutserts and would gladly send some to you if (yes IF) I can still find them (misplaced them when I moved in 2010).

Car was stock height and the lip did lower the front bumper overhang by about 1.25". It survived without a scratch about a year before the wife borrowed the car, drove it to have coffee with her friends, and then drove home like nothing had happened. She had rammed the lip into the curb while parking and broke it right down the middle, and ripped the mounting holes in the bumper cover too. Had to replace the plastic bumper cover yet again (bumper #2 - yes, painted it myself again)

RIP "hamann" front lip.

-A

P.S. you don't really need a nutsert tool. You can easily rig one up with a nice steel plate with a hole in it (what I used above is a steel parallel off our manufacturing shop).