So I was under my car taking the cat's off (got the Berk HFC) when I noticed a bunch of scrapes on various plastic parts and some metal braces. I've
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04-20-2010, 12:12 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Maybe that scraping sound isnt the chin spoiler.
So I was under my car taking the cat's off (got the Berk HFC) when I noticed a bunch of scrapes on various plastic parts and some metal braces. I've had the car for a little over two weeks and it has about 2200 miles. The worst damage was to the right rocker panel/side skirt. It is scratched really bad, like someone took a cheese grater to it. The splash guard behind the left front wheel is pretty bad too. You cant see the damage unless you are lying on the ground but I know its there and it bugs me.
Not sure if this happened at the dealer before I got the car. It is very possible that I was the cause of the damage. I am not used to such a low car. I know I have heard some plastic scraping on the ground when I go into a friends driveway but I assumed that it was the chin spoiler. I'll see next week if that is where it is happening. I have tried many different ways of going up the driveway to not make it scrape. I thought I had it figured out. Guess the car will stay in the street when I go over there from now on. |
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before I bought my car I had the dealer let me test drive it to my house to see if it would make it up my driveway so I could figure out as early as possible if I would need to move :P
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Hhahaha I did the same thing! I scrape if a back out/pull in my driveway straight on. I just need to approach on a slight angle and I'm good to go. Kinda a pain when the recycling and garbage are at the end of the driveway though
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You can get 'em right here, but it seems a lot cheaper to just pull in to the driveway diagonally. In fact, you can almost buy three replacement chin spoilers for the price of that driveway thing!
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Keep in mind that I have only had the car for about 2 weeks. And I have only heard the scrape a hand full of times. If this were happening at my house, I'd be buying one of those driveway thingies. And I have been taking it at an angle. Every angle I could try. Last edited by Dembflyr; 04-20-2010 at 07:37 PM. |
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