{"id":7073,"date":"2018-06-21T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rimbladesusa.com\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2023-06-29T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:22:18","slug":"honda-civic-splitter-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/honda-civic-splitter-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Buy A Front Splitter For Your Honda Civic Until You Read This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A front splitter is a rigid metal or plastic extension to your front bumper. Sometimes they are called an air dam, valance, or chin spoiler. We understand why you want to buy a front splitter for your Honda Civic. It gives your car that sporty look everyone loves and helps enhance its aerodynamics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7074\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7074\" class=\"wp-image-7074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rimbladesusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/honda-split.jpg\" alt=\"Honda splitter\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-7074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><center><em>Image Credit <a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\/gallery\/user\/Da1nOnLy2k6\/media\/bWVkaWFJZDoxNzI0NzE1NA==\/?ref=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danny Abad<\/a><\/em><\/center><\/p><\/div><p><\/p>\n<p>At first, a front splitter sounds like a great idea for anyone looking to give their car that lowered look. Especially since you don&#8217;t have to mess with the suspension system. But it\u2019s not really the best modification as far as your Civic\u2019s ground clearance goes.<\/p>\n<h2>The Drawbacks Of A Front Splitter On Your Civic<\/h2>\n<p>As a sports sedan (or coupe), the Honda Civic\u2019s ground clearance isn\u2019t that high to begin with. Depending on the brand, a splitter adds about two to four inches to the bottom of your Civic\u2019s front bumper. This reduces your ground clearance to a few inches, which is quite problematic. There are things you have to do to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rimbladesusa.com\/protecting-your-front-splitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protect your splitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A front splitter has a rigid structure. That makes it hard to drive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over rolled driveway curbs.<\/li>\n<li>Up or down steep driveways.<\/li>\n<li>Over speed bumps.<\/li>\n<li>Into parking lots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these obstacles can scrape, damage, or even break off the splitter. Also, a front splitter is pretty expensive and installation can be time-consuming.<\/p>\n<h2>The Razor Lip: A Good Alternative<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7075 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rimbladesusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/split.png\" alt=\"Front split\" width=\"640\" height=\"216\"><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, installing a front splitter isn\u2019t the only way to add some volume to the bottom of your front bumper. You can get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rimbladesusa.com\/product\/razor-lip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Razor Lip<\/a>, which is a bumper lip made of premium rubber. It installs on your front bumper with high-quality adhesive. A Razor Lip adds 1.5\u201d to your bumper. But it doesn\u2019t reduce your car\u2019s ground clearance at all. It&#8217;s flexible and can bend back when making contact with a curb, speed bump, or something else.<\/p>\n<p>The Razor Lip is an inexpensive but reliable alternative to buying and installing a new front splitter on your Civic. Why spend several hundred dollars to add a front splitter that will make your Civic harder to drive every day. Why not add a Razor Lip to your existing front bumper instead? You&#8217;ll get a cool front-end look without spending a lot of money, and without any worries about curb\/speed bump damage or scrapes. Win-win.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A front splitter is a rigid metal or plastic extension to your front bumper. Sometimes they are called an air dam, valance, or chin spoiler. We understand why you want to buy a front splitter for your Honda Civic. It gives your car that sporty look everyone loves and helps enhance its aerodynamics. At first, a front splitter sounds like &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/honda-civic-splitter-alternative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-razor-lip","tag-razor-lip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rimguardpros.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}