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Old 12-02-2001, 06:06 PM
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Default How bad is scraping over a speed bump?
I recently lowered my car and every once in a while I will bottom out on the speed bumps at school. I don't scrape or hit very hard, but there is some rubbing. How bad is for my car? Is there anything underneath the car that can be easily damamged or broken by slight rubbing or scraping?
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Default Over time you can possibly damage the exhaust...
Just try the "sidestep" motion over the bumps. Being an ex Honda pilot, I had to learn how to do that really fast...went through the middle section of a GReddy exhaust that way....be careful.
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Default I scraped the flex point on my exhaust when I bottomed out
on a back road
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It should only be the plastic cover that is scraping
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how much did you lower your car?
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Default Around two inches
It's "slammed" (for the lack of a better word).
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couldnt you just raise it a bit having coilovers?
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Yeah, but I like the height it is at now.
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Take them at an angle.
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i have the same problem with my car
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