god yesterday i was getting into the club parking lot and i went a bit too fast up a curb and bottomed out, it felt so bad! first time bottoming out too! now the bottom of my bumper looks ugly, but can't be seen unless you're looking under the car...blah.

you guys bottom out really bad?

 

I was with my friend in his prelude once. In this parking lot there was a huge speed bump (about 5 feet wide...the ramp kind) NEway he was going like 30 through the lot and didn't see it...Yanked his Greddy cat-back right off. It was probably one of the most unpleasand noises I've ever heard in a car.

 

damn that sounds really bad! lucikly it was nothing like that for me.

 

Back in the late 80's early 90's I had a Nissan pickup that
I had lowered and souped up a bit. It was about 4" from the
street to the bottom of the body, but it had a crossmember
to the frame that hung about 1/2" lower then that.

So yeah, going into a gas station, where they have those
filler holes in cement where they fill up the big tanks under
the station...well I tore the lid off of one of those, big sparks
and all! I was very lucky the station didn't blow up! LOL

Personally, I feel anyone going through a parking lot at anything
more then 15-20 should be shot, but that's just me.

 

I did once exiting the faculty parking lot, its like a deep trench in-between. I was ____ed!

 

omg this happened to me last night! i was going down a slanted curb and i scrappped =[ a little part of me died inside...

 

i dont want to lower it for this reason.

 

i go to my parents house all the time and their driveway is very steep ... and to add to the ugliness the portion of road that meets it is broken ... so i have to exit the driveway at an angle (ive hit the front on the road a few times) .... and my car is NOT lowered ... i do have the front lip tho .. so that does lower the front by about an inch or so ... i dont wanna lower my car cuz i will hit there ... my parents will be moving in a while so i may lower it after they move ...

 

air ride baby

 

i had a close call today...i was parking....and there was one of those little stone things to keep y our car from rolling incase you didn't park or put on the ebrake....so...as you can imagine...i forgot to park it...and it rolls down ....and i thought my bumper was a gonner...i immediately parked, turned off the car and took a look and thank God i didn't lower the car...i was literally 1 mm away from damage...PHEW

 

Yes, ever since lowering my car, I've bottomed out at times when I thought for sure I wouldn't have. Meh, I don't think anything is ruined... yet.

 

Last week my girl was driving her slammed Acura CL and bottomed out.... I mean nasty. I bought a cheap camber kit for the neuspeed springs and kyb shocks I bought for the ride. Ball joints completely gave way on a hard bump. It was so sad it looked like the car was crippled or something. Anyway bought a top notch camber kit (ingalls) and now the car's all good.

 

my tc isnt lowered but my mom went full speed going up a driveway as i stood there helplessly to watch and hear the bottom scream. it hurted me so much since it was a couple weeks old. i asked her if she knew what happened and she said no. i told her never to go that fast going up a driveway ever again. its gonna be worse once i drop the car.

 

Speaking of those little stone things....I saw a guy a couple months ago in a civic strolling through the parking lot out site of my work. (I hate people that cut across lots) NEway he was coming up on a row of the stone things and he wasn't slowing down. Sure enough he hit it dead on. I think his front end might have gotten airborn. It was rocking side to side and then his back end hit it and popped up about a foot.

Probably one of the funniest things I've seen someone do in a car....

 

this is why I'm only getting TRD springs......Air-Ride is another option....but it's not for my wallet

 

I chunked the bottom of my front lip on the way to Toyotafest on Saturday, didnt really do anything visible, but I know the scratch is there and thats what counts

 

did you bottom out the suspension or just hit bumper?

 

If there was a performance oriented one out for the tc I would greatly consider it b/c of this reason...

 

I ask my girl to get out of the car before I get into my driveway. Otherwise I touch gtound with my fromt bumper. I am overly careful though so no bottom outs for me.

 

no offense but dont tell your girl that because thats almost calling her fat.