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Old 05-01-2008 | 04:34 PM
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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.
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.
 
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Old 05-01-2008 | 04:36 PM
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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!
I do live in CA so that isn't an option, but thanks for the idea. The home depot driveway repair might be a good solution, but since I live in hillsborough, I think you have to get city approval before making any changes to things like this since I think the gutter is city owned. My driveway is pretty steep, but its the gutter at the entrance to the street that's killer, it dips down another 3-4 inches, making it impossible to enter my driveway without scraping, at any angle you come in. This is especially challenging since we park 3 other cars in the driveway, so there isn't much room to come in at different angles.
 
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Old 05-01-2008 | 04:41 PM
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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.
yea my house is located on a hill, then another hill itself to go in the driveway. I have to come up a hill, then turn left into my driveway which is another couple inches just to get into it, then its steep to go up
 
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Old 05-01-2008 | 04:58 PM
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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.
still coming in in an angle you should be able to do just fine.

base on the pictures he posted it does not looks like he's dropped too low.

with stock rear he should be fine.
 
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Old 05-01-2008 | 05:46 PM
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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.
 
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Old 05-02-2008 | 01:13 AM
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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...
 
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Old 05-02-2008 | 01:39 AM
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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
 
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Old 05-08-2008 | 06:10 PM
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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.......
+1... that's probably going to be your best bet.. else, you will need to go back to a stock bumper man.. sorry... I can't handle having a bodykit and having to worry about it everytime I drive around...just too much to be spending... rather just use the cash on my motor & susp.

btw... try pulling up one of these... lol

 
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Old 05-08-2008 | 07:10 PM
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^ lol i'm on stock body kit though.. everything is stock except my ionic grille.. im not lowered either
 
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Old 05-08-2008 | 08:58 PM
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If I have anyone sitting my back seat then the rear of my car will scrape my driveway too.
 
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Old 05-09-2008 | 01:06 AM
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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!
 
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