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Sometimes I really hate the quality of roads!

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Old 06-19-2002, 03:04 PM
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Default Sometimes I really hate the quality of roads!

Once again I'm after your eternal wisdom guys,

I was on a road hitting 55, it was dark, national speed limit road etc, and there was a big bump in the road, not a raise, but a drop, as I was driving I noticed far too late to do any decent reaction, so as I went over this drop when I landed there was a scraping noise , is the bottom of the 'S' well protected? I checked the bodywork, all looks fine, I checked those plastic bits infront of the wheels (as I assume they are the lowest points of the car?) and they also seem fine, think I got away with it? The car drove perfectly after that...... Just wish they fixed the damn roads!!!!! Is it worth getting the car raised and checking certain points?

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Pt.

ps. once again thanks for your support.
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these noises often sound a lot worse than they are...my car was in the air on monday having some work done at the dealership, and after all the scraping i've heard all I could see was some underseal missing...It is well protected under there...I wouldn;t worry.
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It's happened to me a couple of times. When my exhaust was being swapped I had a good look underneath and all was fine. I wouldn't worry about it; it probably was the aero danglies at the front. It always sounds worse than it is. I had loads of underbody danglies on my SAAB 900 and, because the car was lowered, they were always scraping. Scared the bejesus out of my passengers sometimes
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Maybe we should get Ti skid plates fitted on all our dangly bits (as fitted to F1 cars to spectacular effect in the late 80's, early 90's)
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