I have an OEM kit and I already scraped twice and my car is on STOCK height. Do any of you have cracked or severely damaged your front lip from scraping, curbing etc.? I am thinking of dropping my car about an inch.

 

Remember, it is all about the angle of attack...

 

& not pulling in to the parking space too far

 

A little OT: but do they make carbon fiber front lips yet?

 

When I had my car shipped from Ottawa, to Vancouver.. When they took it off the flat bed, the scraped up the front lip ..BAD!..it actully bent outwards and tore and where it connects to the fender on the drivers side broke and came right off! .. sock cuckers!

 

ive scratched, curbed, broke, and chipped my front lip so much its pathetic. Most of the damages came from track events and from me hitting 2 blown out tires on the highway...it just looked awful.

Im having it painted right now and fixed...so it should be back to normal by next week...whew!

 

Just glue a big convex mirror to your acura emblem. Aim down and never hit a curb again. Or even better, hire a manservant to ride with you. He could get out and direct you into your parking stall! (works for parellel parking too!)

 

I should have clarified more, the entrance/exit out of our parking lot has a dip that most cars scrape. I take it sooooo slow but still manage to catch some pavement. I am just wondering dropping my car an inch would be too much for it to cause some major damage (cracks, etc. )

 

Again, it doesn't really matter if you are going slow - you need to take that at an angle rather than head-on and you won't scrape...

 

How much did that cost... I'm looking for an option less than - $330.30 + $25 S&H from A&H.

 

Forget the scraping...I want a realtime front lip!

 

Yep, it's all in the angle. Don't approach dips straight on, but rather at an angle, like 30 degrees or so. You'd be amazed how much less often you scrape that way.

 

you should sue for the damages. Developers are responsible to ensure safe, damage free entrance and egress from their buildings. Except, of course, if your talking about your personal driveway at a house. In that case get some ashphault patch and go to work.

 

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You have to be kidding...right?

 

i just hit a deer in my car and it was worked in with the estimate.

 

Check it out ese! i found the answer to your problems!


Type-R Low Low !! ....while your at it, might as well get some 13" triple gold daytons too!... ITR hittin Front-back, Side to Side!

 

I'm in construction, so no I'm not kidding. Same goes for speedbumps that scrape and entrances that are too low. At least in BC Canada thats the way it works.

 

It is probably a hell of a lot cheaper to fire me, rather than for me to cause nuisance regarding the parking lot issue.

 

to whoever asked...some company called "NEO" makes carbon fiber lips for the 94-97...they also make carbon fiber splitters

 

I drag mine every now and then. Depends what angle I attack it at and how fast I am moving...


Jason

 

Links or info?

 

http://www.asylumms.com

They have the CF R lip.

 

Thats for the 94-97. Wish they had one for 98+

 

I've been planning on trying to make one. I'll see if I can make some progress on it this weekend. I just want something simple to mount to the bottom of my front lip so the CF piece gets scraped up instead of my stock lip (well, too late for that, but...)

 

I called Fiber Images, they said they should be making them by the end of the year.