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Old Dec 28, 2001
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loose spoiler

so for the last couple weeks something has been rattling while i drive. i finally took a close look at the stock spoiler and one of the nuts had fallen off and two others were incredibly loose. so basically there was only one bolt holding my spoiler into place. it wasn't that hard to tighten the spoiler down but it was annoying
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well at least you figured out what it was. good thing you got that bad boy tightened down before it fell off and did some damage. put some superglue on those bolts or something, hehe.
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forget superglue, get some J.B.Welds
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That's Horsesh!t!!! Don't over torque them, you might crack the spoiler itself. Use some spring loaded washers or castelated nuts with cotter keys or something.
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Do you have subs in your trunk? Wonder if that did it.
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I would bring it back to the dealer and get them to tighten them, complain if you have to. That shouldn't of happened in the first place.
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LOCTITE and torque wrench.
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Complain, bite their arm off. You don't pay money for a car in which stock parts fall off. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG]

But at least you caught it in time... I'd laugh if I was driving down the road one day and see some Civic drop their spoiler out of nowhere... or, etc.

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