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Front bumper / spliter Clearance 718 Spyder V 981 GTS

whinbush

whinbush

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Hi all
My Spyder should be with me next week but Im hearing stories about people catching the front spliter on Speed bumps etc?
I used to have a 981 GTS and never had an issue, is the Spyder really that much lower?

So favour?
Anyone out there with a 981 GTS would you have 5 min to take a picture and share the height at the lowest point to the ground ?

Likewise anyone with a new 718 Spyder, could you do the same.

Thanks if you can

James

 
It’s not just that the front splitter is lower, as well as the car being 10mm lower than GTS, but more importantly the splitter sticks out further forward and that leads to it catching on bumps.


The GTS never catches its front lip, very rarely you get a little noise from the brake ducts touching, but both 981 and 718(982) Spyders and GT4s will catch their front splitters on bumpy roads.
 
I’ve never knowingly caught the front of my 981 Spyder on anything in 4+ years - yet! Doesn’t visit urban environments much but rural roads round here can be rough. 6” to the bottom of the splitter - brake ducts 2” lower though.
 
Just measured- 13cms. I had to get diamond plate to bridge the street gutter dip between road and pavement and redo my garage concrete entrance plat angle. Only done 900 miles and so far so good. Don't straddle speed humps and take speed bumps on an angle. Edinburgh roads are a nightmare with big potholes etc but so far jarring but fine.
 
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