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Old May 16, 2017 | 01:20 PM
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I was walking towards the car from a distance, and noticed the center spoiler was in front of the side section on the passengers side and behind on the drivers.


I had the car on stands this week end so I took the bolt out and fixed it. But The spoiler is looking kind of sad.


So I figure it could be a good time to replace. But I found several post about ill fitting replacements, So I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a proper fitting replacement. From what I found only the right hand piece is still available from GM.


Eckler's seems to have a good price if it's a decent kit.
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I've bought a couple reproductions sets from fleabay vendors, and believe it or not, perfect fit. they were the Z51 versions which are about 1 inch higher than the standard air dam (or lower, depending on how you look at things). where the center sections overlaps with the end sections, I drilled a 1/4" hole thru the two pieces and used a black push rivet. tends to keep the three pieces in perfect alignment.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1985-1990-Co...ZSqfjx&vxp=mtr

here's the typical push rivets I use -




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E bay $50 free shipping. The rivet mod sounds good I drilled a 3/16 hole and wire tied each side.
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Old May 17, 2017 | 08:51 PM
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A couple years ago I went with the Corvette Central ones. I think they were $60 but I had a discount code so a little less.

The replaced the orginals looked like them except they were new instead of the beat up/missing ones on my car. (I put them on my '95 and put the old '95 ones the '96. The '96 ones when I bought the car were damaged and the center section missing.)

Good luck.
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