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Originally Posted by tissot
Why???
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Originally Posted by ThreeThirtyEye
Entering a driveway at an angle (one wheel at a time) will increase clearance dramatically. When approaching at an angle, you minimize the chance that you undercarriage has to contact the driveway. And the clearance is improved dramatically.
The length between the front of your car's bumper and the axle is long enough to concern the driver when entering a slope. However, if you allow one wheel to contact the driveway instead of both wheels, you reduce the potential of contacting it. The goal of this method is to prevent the longest section of the front of your car from impacting the angle of the driveway.
Other Tips:
-Reduce speed during the following situations:
a) unfirmiliar roads
b) after long periods of rain fall; you will notice an abundance of potholes
-When parking in a perpendicular space, stop before your tires hit the curb/indicator
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Originally Posted by ahnh77
when you are cruising at regular to fast speed...and you see a bump or pothole on the road...and you know it's too late to stop before you hit it...don't brake...accelerate....braking will cause you to bottom out harder...accelerating will hopefully create enough speed to just "jump" over the pothole or bump...your momentum will prevent your car from completely going down into the pothole....or forcing the car down harder from the up and down of the bump..braking forces the car to squat down harder......
now..if it's huge dip on the ground....pray to all the gods....braking might destroy your front bumper or scrape most of the bottom part of the front bumper..say good bye to any lips or aggressive bumpers...when you brake your front pushes down couple inches..especially on hard braking....if you accelerate...you may clear the front...but bottom out and hit the center/bottom of your car HARD.....
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Originally Posted by brocken
yeah man. If I had to drive on those hilly San Francisco streets I don't think I'd be dropping the car at all.
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Thanks for the port threethirtyeye.
ahnh77, I'm going to be getting a pair of nice rims w/ the car haha, so iono if accelerating would be better, I'd rather get a new bumper than a new rim - economics wse neways haha.
brocken, the hills in sf are what have always made me worried about lowering the car. I was acutally contemplating airbags, not so i an slam the car (though I probably would
) but so i had on the fly adjustbility.
I've been driving around in the new car lately and i feel pretty confident i can avoid most steep hills and bumpy roads, albeit after the rain ill still have to be extra careful.
I know some people here run lowered cars in San Francisco, any advice from you gys?