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Just a little heads up for anybody trying to get some side skirts on their festiva, this was super cheap (like 40 bucks) and all the supplies can be had at autozone and lowes/homedepot.
There's a guy online that did something similar with his volvo wagon that gave me the idea, but he used polypropylene planters for the end caps which I didn't like since no paint will stick to that.
Basically, the side skirts are just some rain gutter material from lowes, it's 5 dollars per section and you'll need 2 sections as one is not long enough for both sides.
You'll also need the end caps that go with the rain gutters to make it look cleaner, those were about 3 dollars each.
I cut the rain gutter a bit to change the angle that it sits on the car, you can adjust this to taste if you want but I cut where the red line shows in the pic, this edge sits against the pinch weld and butts up pretty nice.
I glued the end caps onto the gutter with loctite PL premium because that's what I had lying around and it's really strong shit, but you can use whatever, you may have to clamp it to hold in place since the rain gutter has been cut and it doesn't really stay in place anymore.
The ends are held in place with self tappers into the fenders and the middle is supported by a steel bracket I bent out of some sheet metal, one side goes into the pinch weld with a self tapper and the other end supports the rain gutter from behind. I used plastic 1/4in push rivets from autozone to secure the middle section in place.
The brackets look like this
Anyways yeah, I couldn't find any side skirts that I really liked so I just made some.
More pictures coming tomorrow once there's some light so you can see how they are mounted, but here's one of the complete project.
There's a guy online that did something similar with his volvo wagon that gave me the idea, but he used polypropylene planters for the end caps which I didn't like since no paint will stick to that.
Basically, the side skirts are just some rain gutter material from lowes, it's 5 dollars per section and you'll need 2 sections as one is not long enough for both sides.
You'll also need the end caps that go with the rain gutters to make it look cleaner, those were about 3 dollars each.
I cut the rain gutter a bit to change the angle that it sits on the car, you can adjust this to taste if you want but I cut where the red line shows in the pic, this edge sits against the pinch weld and butts up pretty nice.
I glued the end caps onto the gutter with loctite PL premium because that's what I had lying around and it's really strong shit, but you can use whatever, you may have to clamp it to hold in place since the rain gutter has been cut and it doesn't really stay in place anymore.
The ends are held in place with self tappers into the fenders and the middle is supported by a steel bracket I bent out of some sheet metal, one side goes into the pinch weld with a self tapper and the other end supports the rain gutter from behind. I used plastic 1/4in push rivets from autozone to secure the middle section in place.
The brackets look like this
Anyways yeah, I couldn't find any side skirts that I really liked so I just made some.
More pictures coming tomorrow once there's some light so you can see how they are mounted, but here's one of the complete project.
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