RE: [DML] Funny Fascias

["Video Bob" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am sure you will get a hundred responses to this, but here is mine.....
They melt and warp, some say it is from the lights but I don't think that is 
the case since they usually warp over the high beams and we hardly ever use 
those.
It is simply sun damage and they were not designed with enough support under 
there.
Once they are warped I am not sure if you can fix it.
What people have come up with is to epoxy in some metal slats in the area.
Basically, when you decide to replace the fascia you would put these on 
before you mount it.

I screwed up on mine, I decided to do it myself and use too long and too 
thick of metal pieces and now I have the opposite problem where you can see 
the dimples of where they are mounted.
Basically, the hot sun shrink wraps the soft plastic.

Personally, I have always felt that someone should make a hard fiberglass 
replacement for the
fascia...some would argue safety calls for the more pliable plastic....but I 
assure you that a fiberglass fascia would blast apart just as easily in a 
crash as the rubber one will, and might even offer more protection!

I might build myself one out os carbon fiber and see how it looks.
Would anyone else be interested in one of these if I did?
- VB



>From: Todd Nelson <tan5732@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: DMC News <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [DML] Funny Fascias
>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:35:05 -0400
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>Does anyone know why you see many Deloreans that have bent up fascias right 
>above the headlights?
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>Todd
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