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Old 08-20-2008, 03:32 PM   #1
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Suspension question regarding scraping

i havnt lowered my car yet, just wondering how you get around town going over speed bumps and pulling in driveways and buisness parking lots with put badly damaging the bumpers??

my car is stock and i scrape going in driveways!

how do you guys do it???

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Go in at an angle not head on and go over speed bumps slow.
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Go in at an angle not head on and go over speed bumps slow.
at an angle and when he says slow he means SLOW.
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EXTREMELY SLOW! or you'll end up breaking the flex section on your downpipe like me
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Drive it like a lowered Eclipse, not a truck. Slow and angled is the key indeed.
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angle helps alottt and slowness
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haha no thanks. i like my eclipse.

i thought i was on a porn site from the photos of those chicks' butts on 7's post! lol

extremely slow and at an angle- check!

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