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Old 05-26-2011, 12:10 AM
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Hahaha that video is great!
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 12:16 AM
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how are you bottoming out if your 8" off the ground? What kind of road do you have?
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 12:32 AM
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idk how you guys bottom out on stock hight , i think yall doing it wrong lol
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 12:41 AM
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I bottomed out last weekend pulling into an unfamiliar parking lot off a busy street. The entry was all / \ but I couldn't tell until it was to late because a tree was also there and shade... needless to say it was a loud long scrape and turned several heads nearby. Oh, and I'm still stock suspension. I was like daaam.
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 12:50 AM
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are you scraping the bumper or that plastic think under the bumper? Big difference there.
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 12:54 AM
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stock suspension? :smh:
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 03:31 AM
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I used to scrape at stock height on some things, switched to 350z H. Techs and now i dont hit those things anymore. Stiffer suspension helps out, highway driving you will hit bumps or grooves on the road, and I would scrape from all my suspension travel.
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 04:15 AM
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I bottom out all the time.
Try to avoid the places where you scrape.
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 09:52 AM
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Yeah I had to get towed out of one situation.. Parked on the side of the mountain and with RWD and reverse I was stuck... But bottoming out happens all the time in my neighborhood.. We have the worst speed bumps ever!!
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 02:40 PM
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im sorry but that video of obama limo getting stuck is way to funny...
 
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Old 05-26-2011, 06:46 PM
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stock suspension? :smh:
 
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Old 05-28-2011, 10:38 PM
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i scrape going over speed bumps but barely over driveways, just angle the hell out of it lol
 
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Old 05-29-2011, 01:29 PM
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Honestly that bump I went over, anybody not in a truck or something would bottom out. It was like /\ for real with a a big slope on the far side.. like a 2-3ft drop. Craziest bump I've dealt with. Sounded really nasty right under the middle of the car. Funny thing is I was under the car last weekend putting on new hfc's and I couldn't see any scrapes under there. Not sure what scraped.
 
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Old 05-30-2011, 12:42 AM
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I have 3.5" down pipes/ test pipes those big bishes scrape on small speed bumps( won't go near big ones) even leaving the car wash or un even drive throughs that's the low life
 
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Old 05-31-2011, 06:27 AM
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As Marcus has said, "There's no such thing as too low, the ground is too high."
 


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