I had my S fully wrapped and the guys who wrapped it didn't do the greatest job reattaching my OEM carbon fiber lip spoiler. They said it was a problem with Tesla OEM lip spoilers flexing away from the body etc. After a while it came loose enough that I decided to take it off and do it myself.
I removed all the tape and residue from the car and spoiler, used this 3M adhesion promoter, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B3I1JR6?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details, used this tape https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSCMFVA?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details in 2 strips side by side on the inside of the lip spoiler, and took special care with trimming the tape so it seemed like the spoiler sat very flush with the trunk.
Well 3 days later it is already coming off worse than before. I peel it off and I can see that barely ANY of the tape made contact much less adhesion with the trunk surface. Only one end of the spoiler for a bout 5 inches. The rest of the tape is perfectly undisturbed on the inside of the lip spoiler and no residue at all left on the trunk.
So what did I do wrong? I think the issue is that this type of spoiler actually attaches to the edge (rounded corner of the trunk) instead of a flat surface. This means that if the inside curve of the spoiler doesn't perfectly match the curve of the trunk or the tape is too thin (which I think may have been the case) you can't even make the 2 surface make contact.
Has anyone seen what the tape on an OEM trunk lid spoiler looks like? How thick it is? where exactly it is applied?
I may try thicker tape but then I can't really put them at the corners/ends of the spoiler as then they will stick up as that is the only place my first attempt made contact.
Any other ideas?
I removed all the tape and residue from the car and spoiler, used this 3M adhesion promoter, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B3I1JR6?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details, used this tape https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSCMFVA?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details in 2 strips side by side on the inside of the lip spoiler, and took special care with trimming the tape so it seemed like the spoiler sat very flush with the trunk.
Well 3 days later it is already coming off worse than before. I peel it off and I can see that barely ANY of the tape made contact much less adhesion with the trunk surface. Only one end of the spoiler for a bout 5 inches. The rest of the tape is perfectly undisturbed on the inside of the lip spoiler and no residue at all left on the trunk.
So what did I do wrong? I think the issue is that this type of spoiler actually attaches to the edge (rounded corner of the trunk) instead of a flat surface. This means that if the inside curve of the spoiler doesn't perfectly match the curve of the trunk or the tape is too thin (which I think may have been the case) you can't even make the 2 surface make contact.
Has anyone seen what the tape on an OEM trunk lid spoiler looks like? How thick it is? where exactly it is applied?
I may try thicker tape but then I can't really put them at the corners/ends of the spoiler as then they will stick up as that is the only place my first attempt made contact.
Any other ideas?