[dbudh001]

so i had my engine splash guard got F&ed up today - ... split and broke apart while driving thru water ,..... go figure -


out of curiosity , does any one know if any of our vendors make the aluminum splash guards that would bolt up directly using the existing holes under the car?

[Karman]

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[MORTON]

Get rid of them altogether.....

Orrrrrrrrrrr get these:

[Douche]

Originally Posted by MORTON

Get rid of them altogether.....

Orrrrrrrrrrr get these:

He's talking about the horizontal "cover" underneath the car, the one you open the little door to access the oil pan

[Welcome to NBA Jam]

Not that I have ever heard of. Sounds somewhat isolated, but a valid concern.

[dbudh001]

Yes. I'm talking about the one by the oil pan. Just thought I'd ask. Seems better to invest in something like that. Rather than going back to plastic. As they do get real brittle over time

[Efthreeoh]

Eh, the type of plastic used wouldn't get so brittle that water would break it. It sounds like the belly pan was broken before you hit the water and the water finally did it in. I've not seen a vendor offer one in aluminum. It would be really expensive to produce and not worth it for the small market he could sell it in. 90% of E90 owners don't even know there is a plastic belly pan on the car - LOL. Just get a new one. If it's just split, you can fix it with aluminum (duct) tape. I did that for one of mine for a while. I keep it as a spare. A stick has broken 2 of mine in the past 8 years.

[MORTON]

Originally Posted by Douche

He's talking about the horizontal "cover" underneath the car, the one you open the little door to access the oil pan

LOL well, it was still funny though

[drewnel22]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

Eh, the type of plastic used wouldn't get so brittle that water would break it. It sounds like the belly pan was broken before you hit the water and the water finally did it in. I've not seen a vendor offer one in aluminum. It would be really expensive to produce and not worth it for the small market he could sell it in. 90% of E90 owners don't even know there is a plastic belly pan on the car - LOL. Just get a new one. If it's just split, you can fix it with aluminum (duct) tape. I did that for one of mine for a while. I keep it as a spare. A stick has broken 2 of mine in the past 8 years.

+1, im sure it was hanging off or had broken mounting points to begin with. Water wouldn't tear it off if it was secured properly. If it did you would have a lot bigger problems.

[MiniXP]

I would worry about an aluminum one tearing up other stuff if it ever came loose or scraped against something.

I would rather lose or break a plastic splash guard than have it tear part of a bumper off or something worse.

[dbudh001]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

Eh, the type of plastic used wouldn't get so brittle that water would break it. It sounds like the belly pan was broken before you hit the water and the water finally did it in. I've not seen a vendor offer one in aluminum. It would be really expensive to produce and not worth it for the small market he could sell it in. 90% of E90 owners don't even know there is a plastic belly pan on the car - LOL. Just get a new one. If it's just split, you can fix it with aluminum (duct) tape. I did that for one of mine for a while. I keep it as a spare. A stick has broken 2 of mine in the past 8 years.

granted you have a point , but was thinking there may be some benefits to it , and its not that expensive to produce, i see 370z and gs with this for less than $200 ... the oem one for our cars are 150
woudlnt the aluminum ones act in similar ways as a computer heat sink to help dissipate heat ?

[Efthreeoh]

Originally Posted by dbudh001

granted you have a point , but was thinking there may be some benefits to it , and its not that expensive to produce, i see 370z and gs with this for less than $200 ... the oem one for our cars are 150
woudlnt the aluminum ones act in similar ways as a computer heat sink to help dissipate heat ?

I'm not familiar with the shapes of the Nissian and Infinity but I am with the E90's and it is a complex part to shape in metal. The tooling to make dies for metal stampings is very expensive and the E90 belly pan would require several different stamping processes (dies) to make the exact-fit part. Regarding using it as a heat sink, computers use heat sinks because they use conduction, where the electronic parts are mounted directly to the heat sink to dissipate the heat. The belly pan would have to be in contact with what ever you wanted to draw heat away from. The engine already has a cooling system, as does the oil system too.

[buzzard]

I've never heard of an aluminum one, but I wouldn't want an aluminum one anyway. I think the plastic splash guard would be more durable. I just replaced mine with the Bremmen part from ECS. It's identical to OEM, but only $80. http://www.ecstuning.com/News/BMW_E9...011_2012_2013/