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Darwn
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Sat, 19 April 2003 11:34
 
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Those kits are fibey glass so if you live in a resonably rural area you will have a helluva time with stone chips... 
I live in Puckapunyal in central victoria and you should see the front of my Proton Satria GTI 
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Darwn
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Sat, 19 April 2003 11:44
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actually i DO live in the country and there are alot of cruddy roads around....is this likely to be a major problem?
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Puckapunyal
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Sat, 19 April 2003 12:17
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On my GTI (which has a full stock factory body kit) the main part of the front spoiler is fibreglass and the bottom strip is a plastic of some sort. The fibreglass section is covered in stone chips and the plastic section is even worse. The body kit flex's upon impacts which causes the paint to flex and not just chip it cracks nicely also and looks poor in no time. Around the wheel arches are bad also and are nearly white from stone damage (used to be silver).
I purchased my RA28 as a project car as it was all metal which is infinately more robust than the fibreglass malaysian rice burner. Body kits are infinately cool, but no good for us bumpkins i'm afraid 
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Sat, 19 April 2003 12:21
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I also dont recommend low profile tyres either. My GTI has 16" x 7" mags which run a 45 series tyre. So far, i've had my mags rerolled twice over 3 years (at $260 a pop) due to dings from poor roads.
So keep some decent rubber on your wheels, you can have a firmer suspension as long as you keep AT LEAST a 55 series tyre (like the WRX's). (I think a 55 series tyre is a 55mm wall height - someone correct me if i'm wrong)
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Help Needed! Getting a body kit
