Post '86 front spoiler

My car originally was fitted with the earlier black strip along the bottom of the car:



This was fitted to all cars up to 1985 before the final facelift of the 107 range.

The later front spoiler/air dam was added to update the look of the car. This simply bolts onto the front of the car replacing the old spoiler and the lower black grille pieces.

The spoiler, part number A1077900488 new from Mercedes comes in at £275 so I was lucky enough to find a good 2nd hand part that someone had retrofitted to an SLC. Unfortunatly, they had painted the whole item blue, whereas the correct colours should be black for the grille and lower lip and body coloured in the central area.

To begin with, I prepped the existing paint ready for new plastic primer to be sprayed on. This involved flatting old paint runs (I think the previous owner had quickly sprayed it whilst on the car):




Once it was primed all over, I fitted it to the front of the car to ensure correct fitment and make sure everything lined up correctly:



Then, I sprayed black flat stone chip guard onto the grille area and lower lip. This was then overpainted with matt black paint:




Once this was dry, the new black areas were masked off and the remaining area was painted in Signal Red:




Again, once dry, the spoiler was fitted to the car. All existing mountings were used. An additional bracket was fabricated to give support to the lower centre of the spoiler as this is missing from the panel behind on earlier cars:





Finished and on the car: