View Full Version : Spoilerless 888, what do we think?
Novasport
09-06-12, 02:44 PM
Well due to the spoiler mounts on the 888 rubbing there was a little bit of rust starting on the boot so I decided to get the boot replaced. I managed to get a new genuine GM boot lid for £20 off Ebay and it was kindly delivered to me by Vaughan a couple of years ago.
I finally got round to getting it painted by the Vauxhall bodyshop next door and I got if fitted today. It looks a little naked at the moment, not sure if I like it although the spoiler was pishing me off!
Whats people's thoughts?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMG-20120609-00319.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMG-20120609-00318.jpg
And before with the Meccano fitted...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/DSCF2039.jpg
Its like me not fitting them decals on my Sport lol doesn't look right to me
One of them Irmscher spoilers look good, needs something imo
Novasport
09-06-12, 02:51 PM
Wanted an Irmscher lip spoiler but cannot find one anywhere and they are stupidly priced new!
Id look into another spoiler if i were you Rich, the mechano one always looks wrong and totally out of place on there imo, but then its a factory fit thing and part of the 888 package so the purists would want to rape you with a meat tenderiser if any of them saw you lol
Wouldn't be a triple 8 without the spolier! install immediately lol.
peester
09-06-12, 03:20 PM
yeah i agree with john im afraid, just looks like its missing/been pinched. Surely by now its old enough to 'looks so wrong its right' ?
Jeff16v
09-06-12, 03:32 PM
Spoiler vote here
fit it when you come to sell it if you like.... its your car....
i just bay searched astra coupe spoiler, and was bombarded with choices from a lip spoiler for less than £20 to the krazee german stuff.... i think you are spoiled for choice......(and it wasn't meant as a crap pun)
Novasport
09-06-12, 05:08 PM
I think I will run without 'The Wobbler' for a bit and refit it if I cannot get used to it. Will have a hunt round for a lip spoiler and try that first if I can.
Do you use it enough to worry if its got a spoiler or not tho ? lol
turbojolt
09-06-12, 05:15 PM
i think it looks better without, the 888 spoiler looks like something you fnd hanging of the roof of a saxo
Leave it on,just looks like any other astra coupe without.
But then with it on,it looks like a barry astra coupe to those not in the know lol
You probably get looks of-"he really is old enough to know better" lol
timbo1980
09-06-12, 05:26 PM
Keep spoiler in shed for resale, hunt down irmscher coupe spoiler ,think another 888 owner has done the same a few years ago in total vauxhall mag,it looked the business.
paul080803
09-06-12, 05:34 PM
Needs the spoiler, genuine 888!!!!
Much better without the meccano Rich, however I will say it does need a little something on their. E46 lip spoiler? the boot lids up top are a similar shape....
Nick.
Southie
09-06-12, 05:51 PM
Cut the boot off... spoiler problem solved lol
It does need something Rich, maybe a lower version of the meccano effort.
The 888 spoilers, albeit not to everyones taste, make a 888 stand out from the 12345666 million blue astra coupes on the road.
My vote is to keep it :thumb:
Atrocious spoiler, but you bought the car cos you liked it so assume you like the spoiler, so refit it job jobbed.
Novasport
09-06-12, 05:56 PM
Mmmm, what about....
http://multiply.com/mu/speedfight/image/1/photos/22/600x600/8/spoiler.jpg?et=qGC7S453%2BXo9MnGXVVJSQQ&nmid=347480246
Would give me at least an extra 20 bhp
Doesn't look all that different to the one in post #1 lol
Acerliam
09-06-12, 06:05 PM
I like without spoiler but I think it needs a lip spoiler IMO
Southie
09-06-12, 10:19 PM
I like the Bertone spoiler but then I suppose I could only afford a Bertone lol
http://is02.thegumtree.com/image/big/128986562.jpg
Far better imo if it needs one on the road fit a little for functionality, put that one in your loft of doom where we know it'll never come back out lol
Rich, if you keep the spoiler off the 888 then take the 40s off the sport lol
This said its late Saturday night and ive had a few beers and vodka so best ignore me :thumb:
blue_peg_16v
10-06-12, 08:38 AM
Needs something defiantly personally I'd refit it but it's not my
Car so do what you want with it mate
L33 LEG
10-06-12, 10:17 AM
Definetly needs the 888 spoiler back on, looks like a standard/rep astra without it.
Definetly needs the 888 spoiler back on, looks like a standard/rep astra without it.
Doesnt matter as noone will ever see it without the spoiler on as he never drives it lol
lulz
I don't like the 888 spoiler, but imo it need something as its too bland without one..
BRoadGhost
10-06-12, 03:25 PM
The standard 888 spoiler will give good downforce, I dunno how hard you push the thing round bends at speed? If it's mainly for fast road / high speed in a straight line then leave it off & it'll be faster with less drag.
If you do want something different that gives you that high speed stability then go for something different like this maybe:-
http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/ff334/Lee_1075/P1790/Birthday001.jpg
that would look well good on it..... ^^^^^
NOT LOL
I say keep it how it came out the factory, looks how it should!!
Novasport
10-06-12, 05:58 PM
It came out of the factory with no spoiler on it, 888 bolted it on in Oxfordshire ;)
turbojolt
10-06-12, 06:08 PM
if your de-888 the astra why not get rid of the nasty blue interior they put in them aswell lol
BRoadGhost
10-06-12, 06:41 PM
I would; put some real seats in it ;P
Novasport
10-06-12, 08:37 PM
Opiions on the spoiler please, not the rest of the car.
Pistol Pete
10-06-12, 08:54 PM
Hmmm, i would leave it on. But if you really dont like it.....as Nick suggested, an E46 boot lip gets my vote.
It looks so much smoother without!
turbojolt
10-06-12, 09:09 PM
the lines of the astra dont complment a spoiler
timbo1980
11-06-12, 08:30 AM
how a 888 should look
http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss89/timbo1980_photos/astra10ae2.jpg
Novasport
11-06-12, 02:55 PM
Is that Scott's old one with the Lambo doors? If so then that's not what I like.
Tim Harpley
11-06-12, 11:54 PM
Lip spoiler would look good :thumb:
888 spoilers always look cheap and tacky to me.
Having said that it's an 888 so it should have some sort of spoiler unless you're after a more covert approach?
how a 888 should look
http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss89/timbo1980_photos/astra10ae2.jpg
That spoiler looks much better! ; )
Although im sure all the purists will have a melt down and spit the dummy out if anything was to change, lmao
Saw this thread when it first started and thought i'd wait to reply.
If it was anything other than the nasty rear spoiler, you wouldn't have thought twice about (re)fitting it.
If by chance you'd have had to have removed the front bumper (to get that repaired) and fitted a standard one, you'd have never just kept the standard Coupe bumper on, same with anything OTHER 888 on the car
It's just the fact that the rear spoiler is the (and always has been) the worst part of the car, tried to make it look like
http://www.btccpages.com/photos/aj/2001/011007bh_r2526/astras1.jpg
but couldn't as it'd not been road legal, so fitted the biggest they could in the same style.
Just get the drill out and get it back on.
(You'd never have taken anything of your Sport and not refitted it)
Is that Scott's old one with the Lambo doors? If so then that's not what I like.
Yes, Rich, that is indeed Scotts old 888.
I say just have the other boot lid repainted with the spoiler on a put it in the loft, it's far from an attractive part of the car, and as for everyone saying it has to be there it's an 888, if it can be replaced for resale then how does it matter and that's like saying Iain 's sport shouldn't have a spoiler or Edd's shouldn't have injection or Paul W's shouldn't be on bodies, it really doesn't matter as long as it can be put back to standard, I like the fact it makes it unique and I'm the biggest sheep ever liking speedlines and Gsi kits lol
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