Damaged black skirt

[Alan_leamy]

I hit a rock and damaged the front black skirt. What type of money to replace and is it a big job.

[amg merc]

Alan,

Am on my second one after a couple of months - don;t worry as not too cash-serious! Approx. £175 supplied, painted and fitted - I think around £85 supplied to you (unpainted).

>> Edited by amg merc on Sunday 16th May 22:24

[joust]

Nope. Ring the factory/any dealer and I'm sure they will ship you a new one.

From memory it's around the £100 mark, and it just screws / bolts into the front clam. If you pop the clam open you'll easily see it - it may be easier to take the clam off (two bolts, two tie wires) and place it upside down on some soft sheets or similar.

Either that or take the whole thing off or "don't worry". At the Noble owners meet last year there were various states of splitter damage

J

[crb1]

I've picked up some very minor damage on mine so that it looks grey/silver where the damage is. How best to touch this up?
Any ideas please.
Chris.

[captainH]

I'm often getting scrapes on this and use just a standard touch-up brush from halfords - any black gloss should look fine.

[joust]

Nod - or as the paint on mine is rather "matt" in look most of the time I just use a black permanent marker!

J

[edmundo]

The factory wanted 85 English pounds for one, but didn't have any 2 weeks back when my baby was in for a tickle.
After 7 months of use as a day to day runner, the splitter is well and truely split.

Ed

[obes]

I use a black marker pen on mine.

[amg merc]

I'm finding this a small pain and am now keeping a sanding block and paint pen in the garage ready for a clean-up every time I return home! The problem isn't that the splitter base touches the ground - its that the front edge breaks away showing white fibre 'chips'.

Maybe the factory should chamfer the leading edge before painting it so that it cannot chip?!

[obes]

amg merc said:

Maybe the factory should chamfer the leading edge before painting it so that it cannot chip?!

I've hit so many things now mine's chamfered itself !!!!

P.S. I thought the removing the splitter idea and putting a steel underplate in was a cracker.....don't want to be the first to do it though !!

O.

[goodlife]

Martin (sidekick) has put some black rubber beading on the leading edge of his splitter. It's almost like a hard rubber/plastic material in a thin 'U' shape. IIRC it's the same sort you would use to edge doors.

Available in any half-decent spare-parts dealer, it seems to work well and prevents most scuffs from making any impact at all.