I've wanted to do this since day 1...which is a shame since I ordered my car and I could have just ticked the "spoiler delete" box.

It seems that the technique for removing a spoiler is to remove the four bolts and run fishing line through to separate the double-sided tape... Is that correct?

When the spoiler is gone, is the surface respectable looking?

If so my plan is to get some small pulgs from the hardware store, paint them with (Kona Blue) touch up paint.

So....anyone tried something like this? Does it look like crap?

 

Never seen it, but I guarantee it will look like crop. Get a reputable body shop to fill the holes.

 

Sadly, I agree here. It won't look good on a clean lines car. I've thought about this for mine before too.

 

Some did this with the GT wing removal on the 2005-2009s... and it always looked bad. Even painted, they just look kludgy.

Get it done right or don't do it, my vote.

 

what they said. You can plug them but after looking at them for a while you will either put the spoiler back on or have the holes filled.

 

The threads are actually connected to the spoiler. So when you take the nuts of, the threads, still stick through the deck lid. The underside of the factory spoiler is stuck using a large amount of double sided sticky tape. You can run fishing line through the tape, until you get to one of the threads. Then you do need to find a way of lifting the spoiler a little, so that you can push the fishing line under the spoiler on the other side of the thread.... until you get to the next one.
Once you've removed the spoiler, clean the deck lid using lots of water. A lot of yuk (apart from the tape residue) is caught under the spoiler. When there is no more sand or other hard stuff on the lid, you can easily remove the residual tape with some "sticker remover". Clean everything up afterwards, and put some shiny wax on.

sounds easy...

When I did this (it was to replace my factory spoiler with a different one), the holes in the deck lid looked too prominent. Also, even though my car has never seen rain, and is mostly hand washed, you could see where the old spoiler had been (maybe I could have buffed out the boundary, but I just replaced with bigger spoiler). My car is DIB, that could also play a factor.

 

There's not just 4 holes. There's 6!

One is the size of a quarter. It's to run the brake light wiring and back up camera and so on.

 

Mine only had 4 holes.
I didn't have the factory camera. And the brake light is in the deck lid not in the spoiler...

 

There are 4 holes!

 

I put a GT500 spoiler on a couple days ago. I don't have a camera, but I also had the quarter size hole in addition to the spoiler mounting holes.

Either way, I agree that it wouldn't be easy to plug it and have it look good.

 

Take yours off again and double check to be sure And yes, the wires need to run from the trunk to the decklid.

 

exactly. Ford even adds a little "pad" on the OEM GT 500 spoiler to cover up the quarter size hole.

 

Duct tape it. Then plastidip some stripes over it, not one will know.

 

No, Jean-Luc. There are clearly 5.

 

 

I kid you not. My 11 V6 had six holes in the decklid. There was an additional tiny he right next to the quarter sized hole. Silly right? My 12 with the pedestal spoiler has six holes as well. Lol

 

That sounds terrible, but it could actually work.

Taking it off was much harder than I expected. And maybe I was too careless, but the fishing line absolutely scratched the paint.

I wouldn't go with the plugs. Either leave the spoiler, or get them filled and painted.

 

6 can I get 6 5.5 now 6 5.5 5.5 6 6 6 6

 

Get a new decklid? Sell the current one that you have?

 

:-)

It looks to pretty to remove the spoiler again.

At first I was really sure, about the number of holes. Now, I'm not so sure about that anymore. As I was going to be covering all holes anyway, with the new spoiler. There are four bolts, so at least four holes.