Spoiler Mount Defect - found label with car color on it

[ron123]

While removing the spoiler from the trunk to fix the hidden wear spot under the SS factory spoiler, noticed label on the car that shows car color is "PULL ME OVER RED" --- official published car color is "RED HOT".

Removed 2014 SS Spoiler




Flipped Spoiler Over




And here is the Label with Color Name: Pull Me Over Red


Went out to Snopes.com to see if there is any truth to Red cars be pulled over for speeding more often and found the following ...
Snopes: "Gray cars were the ones that gained a greater share of the speeding tickets than they statistically should have: while they accounted for only 6 percent of cars on the road, they pulled down 10 percent of the tickets issued."



The photo below shows the trunk lid wear spot on right side of pic (at 4,000 miles), near where the spoiler rubber mount pad touches the trunk lid. I clear coated over the bare aluminum. Then put Xpel film around mounting holes, and put thin 3M mounting tape under the triangle cushions to increase clearance slightly at the mount points. Fuzzy image is caused by camera picking up the cloud reflection -focusing thrown off on camera phone. Some of the clear Xpel film shows up at margin of the mounting hole in photo below.

For others that are going to remove the SS 2014/2015 spoiler for maintenance: there are 6 rubber plugs on the underside of the trunk lid - remove those for access to the six nuts (have built-in washers). Then pull EXACTLY straight up on the spoiler to release the white nylon centering pin from the black plastic centering grommet (white nylon pin shown in pic 2 above, to the left of the middle bolt stud). It will all of a sudden pop loose. Best to be careful on this step to prevent scratching the mounting holes or paint on the trunk lid deck.
Ron

[kevint]

I feel like this is the name that R&D gave the project.