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Old 08-23-2006, 12:56 AM
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Originally Posted by 05Boxster
Not to change the topic but WTF was the split fender for anyway? How in the world would it possibly save BMW any money to have to design and mount two separate pieces?
Don't know for sure, but I would guess it is the tooling and pressing cost, which would have been sufficiently higher for a single pressing that they could cover the cost of mounting two pieces instead of one.
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