Who has Damaged their Front or Rear Bumper Bar as their Car was or is too Low?

[kyro_02]

ripped my front bumper right off at epping maccas

[Tiga_EL]

Ripped one side of my bumper right off, actually my mum did, wasnt a pretty sight, and the drive home was even worse..

[Sorted]

Originally Posted by Damo

lowering a car doesn't change the height of a diff ?!? :gren: :the_finge

Maybe he had Flat Tyres as well

As everyone knows that lowering a car only lowers the body closer to the diff not the diff closer to the ground.......

Originally Posted by kyro_02

ripped my front bumper right off at epping maccas

Thats what I don't want to do

[LowEL2XR8]

I wouldnt say it was damaged as such but it does have scrapes underneath, but they are not visible unless under the car.

[Bipolar]

My bumper was already a bit ********* before I fitted SLs and I'm planning to replace it, so using it as a gauge for knowing just how fast I can go over bumps was a good lesson. I found out that some bumps weren't a problem for the bumper, but hit the K-frame on the way down the other side. Did the slightly misjudged uturn thing too and put a nice rip on the underside. On my next one I was thinking about a titanium plate (or similar) to the underside.

[Kenaz]

I've scraped my front bar more than a few times ;)

[sven]

Originally Posted by AdzELXR

nah, not on the little crappy ones, but my cats have scraped on the larger ones a couple of times :P

i scrape on the larger ones at knox all the time.


i've pulled off the right side of my front bar at a shopping centre but so has my brother and he is at 4x4 spec!!

[WRP11]

just watch out for those car parks with those concrete slabs bolted down roughly where your front wheels would stop... and when backing out of driveways, don't bounce the front wheels onto the road... its up to you how you drive it..

[Sorted]

Originally Posted by WRP11

just watch out for those car parks with those concrete slabs bolted down roughly where your front wheels would stop... and when backing out of driveways, don't bounce the front wheels onto the road... its up to you how you drive it..

Yeah those things are killers - I even scrape when my car is just sitting on lows - super lows will lower it another inch and if its another inch lower it will be bye bye front bar :(

Just putting it out there to see what has happened to everyone else - as no one is perfect.....

[Damo]

Originally Posted by niko

was my old ea ghia, had a full car load and couldnt really get a good angle out of those city carparks

it sat lower than superlows all round looked like ultralows + i had a gas tank, it wasn't a boat :P

so i guess you were running 13's on low profile tyres ?

[tick5.0]

Originally Posted by MrFlibbles

I have had my front bar repaired and painted twice now! with the extra lip on the bottom its a pain in the ****

Mine's standard height and i've still done damage, it's bodged atm but a new bar is on the cards soon. I love the lower kit but your damn right when you say that lip is a pain in the ****.

[SVT8]

Actually come to think of it i have done some damage to my tyres because of the car being too low!!. On one of the e-series cruises i had a full car load and the whole time the rear wheel arches were scrapping the inside of my tyres. This is beacuse my tyres are 255 and the rear wheel arches havnt been folded over.

Yeh i also hit my towbar every now and again on steep entries into driveways.

[Bipolar]

Originally Posted by WRP11

just watch out for those car parks with those concrete slabs bolted down roughly where your front wheels would stop... and when backing out of driveways, don't bounce the front wheels onto the road... its up to you how you drive it..

Forgot to mention before, with scraping the K-frame on the way down the bump, I've actually had to brake harder while the wheels are rolling down the other side than when first hitting it. The humps at the local shopping centres are a bastard for that.

[MrFlibbles]

just so you know my front bar is buggered again... might wait till i get back to adelaide to repair it though, these Queensland roads are a joke.

[kyro_02]

Originally Posted by MrFlibbles

just so you know my front bar is buggered again... might wait till i get back to adelaide to repair it though, these Queensland roads are a joke.

lol bad luck there, though i think vic has the worst roads in whole of aus :P

[DEVL-XR]

haha this post means nothing as my car isnt even lowered!! standard tickford spec!!lol!

[EA2BA]

I have my EA on lows and well my front bar is pretty square so sits a fair way out, and I have scrapped the bottom of it heaps if I go in or out of alot of driveways too quick and on the concrete parking things.

would love it on superlows but I doubt I would get in or out of my own driveway for a start.

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by BradensEBxr6

haha this post means nothing as my car isnt even lowered!! standard tickford spec!!lol!

Mine's higher ;)

[BlueXr8]

yep i cant drive on to car ramps and i dont even have a spoiler on the front of mine car just gets stuck lol

[NudgE^SIKBRO]

i have thousands of lowness problems with the EB it scrapes on everything mostly under car stuff exhaust, trans mound etc ive gotta remove the cover off the rear section of my cat coz its nackered from running over speed humps even at like 5kp/h

[RG]

Haven't damaged a bar yet (previous owner did, the undertray is in my shed waiting to be put back on) but I did scrape the underside of the skirt on the passenger side, two days after I got it, I almost cried. The previous owner was obviously a bit of a knob, there is a fair bit of "damn low car with thoughtless driver" damage under it. Nothing major though.