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krzysiu Grand Master

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After my front bar has been scrapped numerous times and still does, i find it a waste of money to fix it and then cry when you stuff it up in the same day. Just not worth it. Only fix it when it practically snapped in half. My driveway is pretty flat, but its really stuffed up. Its not a straight driveway and it curves right at the end and im never sure how close i am to the gutter. Several time ive dropped the car on the gutter, i couldnt give a shit if i cracked it anymore...

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I thought I could leave my car out the front as well... but every night i have these idiots go up and down the street (my street is like a skating ramp, and i'm down the middle).  Some go more than 100 clicks, so I don't really want my car to be in their way.

yeah usually idiots in excels and other crap cars coz they cant show it off like we can so they jst drive stupidly fast in it..... you should jst lay a ripple strip across the st in frona ur house around the time they come past lol.... like to see em speed then.

my cuzns bm dub got written off by sum jerk off flyin at 140 down a small residential st, sum how managed 2 flip his car over hers and land upside down sumwhere down the road..... amazing how stupid people are.

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It was funny how I used to cringe everytime I'd scrape my front bar soon after I got it. A few weeks later and I was used to it, haven't given a sh*t since.

People who hear it scrape at shops or whatever will wince at the noise and pass a sypathetic look but I just raise my eyebrows and shrug at them as if to say "It's expected, I'm over it."

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yeah thats true, i mean when u drive a car that the bodykits like 10cm's off the ground ( i jst assume u guys are all like me lol ), then yeah its expected.... lucky i havnt cracked mine yet, jst keep puttin lil dinks n shit in it, the first week i had it i'd cringe whenever it scraped, now im jst like... * shrug of shoulders *

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I bought my house a year ago and the drive way was sh!t.... so rendered up the low point and added a checker plate over the gutter and I can get in and out of my drive way without a problem! I have a 400r front bar as well!

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hehe, funny someone started this thread, coz i cant even get mine in the driveway, sucks!!!! i have to park on the street or take it to my parents place around the corner and walk back....

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my r32 an stock ride height only just makes it, and scrapes if i don't go in properly :D i love the lowered car look, but it'll never happen while i'm living here.

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My old silvia had a bodykit and that used to scrape on any driveway. My R33 doesnt have a bodykit, it seems to scrape the exhaust on most driveways, the bottom of the FMIC will scrape on serious driveways. Yep, i do the angle trick too, and in general just drive really slow.

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I bought my house a year ago and the drive way was sh!t.... so rendered up the low point and added a checker plate over the gutter and I can get in and out of my drive way without a problem! I have a 400r front bar as well!

Did you have to apply to get the rendering done? I don't want to get in trouble with the council for placing some new structure on the road (hehe, like the ripple strip a few posts ago)

Now that would be a sight!

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Thanks for all the replies guys... I guess that i'm happy to know that i'm not the only one who feels the pain each time i hear bad sounds under my car...

If anyone comes up with a legal and easy way of getting this problem solved, please come forward... i want to learn. My car is less than a week old, i don't want it scratched yet!!!

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Hi

Just like to find out if I'm the only person who has a ****ed up driveway and takes about 10 minutes getting their car in or out?  

If by chance you are/were one of these people, do share your remedies...  even though my 34's front bar will come out sooner or later, it hurts me just the same when I hear any scratch!!!

I think you'd find most people on these forums would be in the same boat as yourself mate. We all cringe when driving into a parking spot that has those concrete stoppers or when we have to go in or out of a driveway. I try to go in or out of a driveway on an angle (if possible) and not do it square on.

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Hi

Just like to find out if I'm the only person who has a ****ed up driveway and takes about 10 minutes getting their car in or out?  

If by chance you are/were one of these people, do share your remedies...  even though my 34's front bar will come out sooner or later, it hurts me just the same when I hear any scratch!!!

yeah my car is a **** to get up a driveway, and then once your halfway up it rocks like a see saw.

needs to attack it at a rather large angle to try aviod loosing the oil cooler, front bar and all the rest

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Its been mentioned but try reversing in! I cant really explain the logic but it does make a difference!

Probably less of an angle/lip hanging off the back.. Only thing is.. don't snag the exhaust..

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I can get up the driveway but not into the garage because the driveway is well steep and just flattens out sharpley at the top, causing the car to stop dead on the exahust/chassy rails about 10-20cm after the front wheels. I have thought of a few ways to fix the problem but none of them are very practicle or cost effective (most of them involve a jackhammer and the lip of the driveway lol)

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