coilovers and speedbumps

[rankins]

just wondering how people cope with the little ones that aqre in the centre of the road mine scrapes no matter how i try and get round it

 

[Sam@NP]

raise the car?

 

[Tony Hunter]

raise the car?

Your a fecking genius Sam.

 

[montana]

do you have a undertray fitted? i had one on my old bravo that had sagged and caught on alot of things! yours is pretty low though!

 

[Sam@NP]

Your a fecking genius Sam.

knows it

 

[Tony Hunter]

 

[JCC]

Is this serious?

 

[Chapster5]

Reverse...

 

[adam172]

go up and over one side (drivers side so the exhaust don't catch) don't go over with the bump in the middle



Or do what I do - try to find another route

 

[Tony Hunter]

I'm out.

 

[rankins]

if i go over them on my drivers side the jacking points scrape is what i mean and all im asking is how others do it besides raising the car back up

 

[Chapster5]

Go over on an angle lol

 

[-Tommy.]

Used to just hold up traffic waiting to drive inbetween them. They're not even the worse ones, those hard plastic ones that are usually in a car park used to ruin my undercarriage.. no way of getting round those except take it like a man.

 

[rankins]

Thanks Tommy I'm just hearing horrendous scraping followed by stares off people

 

[ipodsandguns]

My 182 was pretty low and never scraped on a bump... just go slower. if you can get a tennis ball under nothing should be a problem.

 

[Hutchie]

i take em flat out, cant scrape if your air bourne.

 

[sideways danny]

go faster, get some air. Tried and tested

 

[R56_Ollie]

I have to go at an angle over pretty much everything :/

 

[rankins]

It's only the jacking points it's scraping over it just sounds bad and it's causing a few spikes underneath the car will get some pics in a bit

 

[-Tommy.]

Thanks Tommy I'm just hearing horrendous scraping followed by stares off people

I do miss the 'ouch, gotta hurt' look and lip reading as i used to go over bumps, in a weird kind of way. You'll learn to love the sound of scraping.

 

[Goodj]

use pavements

 

[rankins]

Tried half on half off and still heard scraping lol it is stupidly low but love it and yeah tommy seen them looks last night off a few people the oooo that doesn't sound good

 

[Gouldy]

If you want silly low then put it on air so it can be raised when need be.

Apart from that then Raise it up

 

[Winston]

Use wooden planks.....

 

[Ray Gin]

Take them at an angle, as said.

Underside of my car is full of tarmac, stones, paint from speedbumps and dents where the subframe hits the floor everyday

 

[Gildstar]

if you've got the money then airbags are the perfect option but thats a long shot lol , just take them slowly and go half on half off i seem to find that helps.

 

[rankins]

It does help goin over like that but certain ones you hear loud bangs and scrapes

 

[Ray Gin]

You can also get an airbag/coilover combo too, think it's around 400/500 for the front? Can't remember.

Set the stance with the coilovers and the bags raise the coils for speedbumps, then back down again to the originally set height.

EDIT: £300 ^

 

[Goodj]

just go full-hydraulic.

3-wheel motion FTW

 

[Gaz.]

Avoid them, or man up and take the scrape.

 

[Will.]

I'm on sportlines and scrap on some speed bumps.

 

[sofaboy]

My mk3 was never ever beached on anything, even with custom springs so you shouldnt have a problem, just wince and take the noise.

 

[rankins]

nice one mate, ive got the custom rears on mine