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I have a S2 R33 and my side skirts have been cracked and look tacky for AGES, the glue came off the side and the screws were over tensioned and cracked them.

Last night I saw an R33 with what looked like NO skirts, just straight to the body of the car.

If i take mine off, what is underneath? would it look OK without the skirts on until I can afford new ones? (i.e. better than driving with cracked taped on ones).

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I have a S2 R33 and my side skirts have been cracked and look tacky for AGES, the glue came off the side and the screws were over tensioned and cracked them.

Last night I saw an R33 with what looked like NO skirts, just straight to the body of the car.

If i take mine off, what is underneath? would it look OK without the skirts on until I can afford new ones? (i.e. better than driving with cracked taped on ones).

It will look fine...

My car had no skirts when I first bought it.

It will kust be dirty under where the skirts were.... :)

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It will look fine...

My car had no skirts when I first bought it.

It will kust be dirty under where the skirts were.... :(

:) sweet, I will do that when I get back home, give it a good polish where they were and hopefully it doesnt look too bad. :mad:

Thanks mate

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if you have the type m skirts dont take them off as you will have about 4 holes on each of the body of your car where the skirts sit on the skirts skirts have plugs that go into the holes into the body so they can mount on

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if you have the type m skirts dont take them off as you will have about 4 holes on each of the body of your car where the skirts sit on the skirts skirts have plugs that go into the holes into the body so they can mount on

Ahhh ok, thanks for that. I will just have to get the stock ones plastic welded, or buy some aftermarket ones. There is one big crack, almost full depth of the skirt and a few smaller cracks starting to form near high stress points like around the screw holes etc.

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