someone come jack hammer my driveway
#16
Originally Posted by JOKER
how low are you dropped?
with stock rear you got to have some serious skills to scrape the driveway. Or your driveway got to be vertical.
with stock rear you got to have some serious skills to scrape the driveway. Or your driveway got to be vertical.
If you look at the pic he posted, the incline is to the left side of the pic.
So, if I'm figuring it right, he has to come in on a steep angle, and then turn to the left to go up his driveway.
It looks to me like a steep, (maybe a foot elevation) to get on the drive way itself.
#17
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From: Burlingame/Berkeley, CA
Originally Posted by AGThing1227
Elayman you live in CA? I'm just wondering because if you live around PA maybe I could check it out and come up with ideas. But it says you live in CA. I just want to double check. Good luck man!
#18
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From: Burlingame/Berkeley, CA
Originally Posted by GR8TG35
Joker,
If you look at the pic he posted, the incline is to the left side of the pic.
So, if I'm figuring it right, he has to come in on a steep angle, and then turn to the left to go up his driveway.
It looks to me like a steep, (maybe a foot elevation) to get on the drive way itself.
If you look at the pic he posted, the incline is to the left side of the pic.
So, if I'm figuring it right, he has to come in on a steep angle, and then turn to the left to go up his driveway.
It looks to me like a steep, (maybe a foot elevation) to get on the drive way itself.
#19
Originally Posted by GR8TG35
Joker,
If you look at the pic he posted, the incline is to the left side of the pic.
So, if I'm figuring it right, he has to come in on a steep angle, and then turn to the left to go up his driveway.
It looks to me like a steep, (maybe a foot elevation) to get on the drive way itself.
If you look at the pic he posted, the incline is to the left side of the pic.
So, if I'm figuring it right, he has to come in on a steep angle, and then turn to the left to go up his driveway.
It looks to me like a steep, (maybe a foot elevation) to get on the drive way itself.
base on the pictures he posted it does not looks like he's dropped too low.
with stock rear he should be fine.
#20
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From: Burlingame/Berkeley, CA
its not that the car is too low, its just that the driveway sucks .. the road has an incline as well, meaning the right side of my driveway entrance is higher than the left side, and then the driveway gutter has a big dip, then the actual driveway is slanted upward on an incline. i've tried many ways of coming in, and each time it scrapes either the front, or the exhaust, or both.. the severity depends on what angle I'm coming in, but I haven't ever been able to pull it into the driveway without any scraping.
#21
first of all you must have been entering with some serious momentum to pull the bumper off like that and secondly, go get some chrome polish and a rag and rub those marks to see if they come out (not too much seeing as how it is chrome polish).
As far as parking, park parallel to your street IN the drive way. You'de have to be the last one there and the first one to leave though. Other than than that, pull in at an angle. This is an everyday problem when sitting this low to the ground, look at this as practice...
As far as parking, park parallel to your street IN the drive way. You'de have to be the last one there and the first one to leave though. Other than than that, pull in at an angle. This is an everyday problem when sitting this low to the ground, look at this as practice...
#22
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From: Burlingame/Berkeley, CA
i was going about 3 miles per hour when i entered the driveway.. i think its the board that we placed over the gutter that grabbed onto the bumper, but anyways it scrapes a LOT without it. as to parking parallel to the street, there is no room.. we have 1 car in the garage, and 4 cars in the driveway, the only way to fit them all is to park them facing the house like each dot representing a car
#23
Originally Posted by GR8TG35
If your bottoming out at the very end of your driveway, Just go to Home Depot/lowes and pick up a couple pail/bags of driveway patch....you know the black rock/pebble tar stuff for repairing driveways, and lay down a layer to ease the incline.......just pack the $hit down, and it should stay for a while.......
btw... try pulling up one of these... lol
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after graduation im getting ready to move to a house with a couple of my friends and im pretty sure that i wont be able to get in/out of the driveway entrance without serious scrapage.... im pretty bummed about it, but i can still park on the street, thankfully
sorry about your situation, i say try the driveway repair stuff that somebody mentioned already.... just try to do it so that it isnt majorly obvious and maybe the city wont give you **** for doing it without permission
good luck!
sorry about your situation, i say try the driveway repair stuff that somebody mentioned already.... just try to do it so that it isnt majorly obvious and maybe the city wont give you **** for doing it without permission
good luck!
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