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Old 06-20-2004, 11:02 AM
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Scraping up my car

How do yall keep your ground effects from scraping when you go over hills, steep drivways, etc? This is gonna drive me mental.
Old 06-20-2004, 01:26 PM
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take it on an angle or not at all brotha
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learn to drive....

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are u talking about the air dam scratching... cuz thats what mine does.... i always thought it was the actual ground effects but when I relaized it was just the air dam it stopped bothering me.
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I dunno if your car is at stock ride height or not, but if it's lowered, there is basically nothing you can do to keep the front spoiler from scraping every once in a while. I got my car back on the road less then a month ago and the bottom of the front spoiler is scratched up already. Also if your going to park into a spot that has a curb i find it easier to back in then to judge how close the front of your car is to the curb.
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my car front air damn at the very center of it sit 4' off the ground...i use to scrap it alot...but after awhile you get very use to it and you like never hit it anymore
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when going into driveways, etc, keep this in mind:

lead with the tire, not the nose.
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Go at an angle and/or VERY slowly... I used to creep up the curb into my driveway at about 0.5mph untill I got both fronts up, then I could just go up like normal.

Now I can't go up there at all, because my exhaust scrapes pretty bad when I go back down, unless I drive halfway across my lawn to get to an angle where it won't scrape!

Oh well lol, live n' learn.
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point being you need to have your tire hit whatever it is first. having low profile such as with 18" or larger makes it even more difficult. i have no problems with scraping at any speed but the faster i'm going does determine the angle and my airdam does suffer either way.



not the paint though.

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