After constantly scratching the bottom, what kind of long term damage can occur?? anyone know? None? just the sheer fact that its getting scratched?

 

i ripped up my under panel that covers the engine and scrapped the resonator on my borla exhaust, but that's about it. If you're just talking about scraping over speedbumps and stuff, dont worry about it. Unless you're bottoming out hard, you cant do any real major damage
-GP-

 

Every time I go into my building garage I hear a grinding sound. I think its the cat back and catalytic converter grinding over the bump. So this over a prolonged period of time wont cause any serious damage?

By bottoming out you mean teatur tawing over a bump?

 

most likely your are catching the small 12" long 4" wide body brace that connects each side of the driveshaft/exhaust tunnel.

i have hit pretty hard on mine and found that it was that brace that was taking the beating.

 

Yeah man, it never gets any easier! The sound tears at your heart!

 

have you looked under the car for any damage?

+1 with what GP said

 

with enough scraping, it may eventually create a hole, and you'd be able to hear it
unlikely as it may seem, scrapping may loosen your exhaust bolts somehow

 

i tear my chit up daily,

im okay knocking on wood so far

i think you should be aight

 

Number one reason I'll never give this car a drop. Learnt my lesson about dropped cars and scrapping. Not worth the hassel for me anymore.

 

but it looks sooo good, haha

i don't like the idea of scrapping, but hawtness > scrapping

 

I'm having the same problem going into my garage right now. Couple seconds of scrapping that tears my heart out! Is there anything I can do, or should I even worry?

 

you should be ok, i've scrapped mine bad one time when I had 4 people in the car, 1st and only time it happened made me wanna cry

 

i wouldn't worry about it unless you were really hitting badly. that being said, try going over the bump/hill at an angle when the car will be at its closest point to the ground.

 

I found on my previous G that the splash guards will scrape on a sharp driveway, speed bump etc, that was the extent of that, the fronst splash guards had scrapes on the bottom edge. On my '05, I hit a truck tire tread on the freeway, made a helluva a noise, I thought for sure it broke something, I took it by the dealer and all they found were some light scratches on the catalytic converter!

 

The thing is this is my personal garage, and its on an incline before I enter. I'm always scraping on the transition and I can't angle in because its a tight fit garage. I try to go slow in, but just causes it to grind for awhile. I'm just worried because this will have to happen everytime as I leave and come back home.