Does anyone know where I can find a front lip for my Xb that doesn't scrape? Mine keeps scraping quite a few parking lots that I enter that it already has screwed up my front bumper alignment. I may just remove it unless I can find something that works.

 

Better driving habits are your best bet. My wife, who has never owned a lowered car before, is getting around just fine with a 2" drop. And I doubt you will ever find another front bumper or lip with more ground clearance.

The only thing I could imagine that might work would be a JDM front bumper/lip kit. I don't think it is any higher, but I think it would provide you with slightly better approach angles for roll curbs and the like.

 

There is no aftermarket front lip that is as short as the stock one that I know of. But learning to enter and exit parking lots at an angle will greatly avoid scraping. Also, we have a short car, there is no need to pull all the way into a parking place either, that avoids the scraping also. Hope that helps. Most of us that have never had a lowered car have had to re-learn how to protect the front end.

 

Do you know where I could buy a front lip that pulls back to the wheels at an acute angle instead of straight down? I know the lip isn't that low but because it comes straight down it gets hit buy poorly designed curbs and gutters!

Thanks for your help!

 

You might try contacting http://www.trdsparks.com to see what it would cost you to get the original JDM bB front bumper. I think it requires some modification to fit, but it would be your best bet.

 

I do enter at an angle and park short in spaces but entering some parking lots you would think they were designed for 4x4's

 

I have a kenstyle kit on my car that has put me 1 1/2 inch lower than the stock lip and already dropped, so I am pretty low. I have had to choose whether to go into some driveways or look for better ones or park on the street many times. You also cannot rush into a driveway, the slower and more angle the better, some it seems like you are going into or out of completely sideways. Its alot of patience and calculating sometimes. I even have issues on dips in the street. But don't feel bad, I am on my second front lip, the first one was fiberglass and it cracked twice so I got a urethane one and it seems much more tolerant.

But yes, some places are not lowered car friendly and I choose not to go there.

 

Check this thread out. I was hoping for this lip, but it seems like that ain't gonna happen.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=107527

 

buy one of those jdm parking poles it'll give u better idea where your bumper is

 

solution: raise it back to stock.

 

I'm on TRD Springs so I only have a 1" drop. I only used aftermarket springs because the ride was so hard after installing better endlinks, strut and sway bars. Thanks for the ideas!

I gotta believe someone else out there is tired of scraping their front lip and wants one that is the same height as stock but pulls back instead of straight down.

 

bbist sells a carbon fiber (and maybe fiberglass) lip called the N1. It is styled different than the stock lip but I believe it is not any lower to the ground - i.e. same ground clearance as the stock lip. You may want to look into that.

Mike

 

try a front lip splitter, it'll take the damage away from the oem lip. http://buddyclub2.com/accessories/cf...tter/index.htm

 

I really like the look of that lip but I need one that pulls toward the tires and not out.

 

Tomas posted a pic of just what you want, here-

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...6311&start=150

Unfortunately, it's a pic of a Russian bB...

The front spoiler is probably the least practical aspect of our otherwise excellent urban utility vehicles. Perhaps as time goes by some aftermarket importer will sense there's a market for a part that works well vs one that looks good...

 

Somebody please make this now so I can stop scraping!

 

Scraping is fun. I really enjoy rebuilding my custom front splitters everytime I shatter them on something I shouldnt have tried to drive over with my lip kit and a 3" lowered front end....

 

Anybody know how to get this lip from Russia?

 

Shave the whole stock lip kit, front, sides and rear. Don't use one at all. The lip kit was an option in Japan. Make it be gone and your scraping will be gone. Or raise the car. Or find other ways in. It's your choice the options have been presented.

 

so is there any function to this front lip? or is it only for looks? I agree that it would be better if it was not so low to the ground. We have speed bumps where I work that are a nightmare to drive over - high and wide.