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12-28-2015, 09:14 AM #1
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Preventing bottoming out
How do exotic car owners deal with the low height of the bumper to the ground doing city driving. Like going into shopping centers with speed bumps and inclined curb entry. Or those concrete blocks in parking lots. I have an M3 and while the car is cool to drive, it's a hassle trying to angle myself at uneven surfaces and still getting an occasional scrap. Something I can't prevent all the time, but I'm not going to let that ruin it for me and leave the car in the garage.
The M3 is still low enough to scratch if I approach any obscure angle on the road. Especially drainage ditches or the sidewalk curbs to enter the main road. Even when stock it doesn't look that low compared to what the modders would do to their M3, but it's still low enough that I have to approach everything at an angle or just accept hearing a bad scratch sound. I've also gotten fucked over by those large concrete parking blocks because I couldn't see them. I have no idea why those things exist, but they should make them lower far sports cars with lower profile.
My dad had an Mercedes E55 AMG before the M3 and that care didn't have any problem with curbs and it was still a sports car. Well, 4 door sports sedan so maybe it doesn't count. The M3 is a 2 door coupe so I guess that's the cause for the lower profile, and it's also a limited edition Lime Rock (1 of 200) so maybe they made it more sporty looking and lowered it.
It sucks to scrap a nice looking car, but at the same time I don't want that to burden me from enjoying my car. Plus nobody cares about the imperfections of the car as much as the owner will, so I don't see why a scratch or dent should bother me. The driving experience is the main priority, looking at it comes second.
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