+1 I would also like to know

 

So assuming this damage happened as a result of going up a driveway, was the fender bend caused by my tire directly pressing up against sheet metal, or is the tire hitting the plastic fender liner, which then indirectly puts pressure on the sheet metal/actual fender? If it's the latter, will heat gunning and pushing back the whole liner be a good solution? Thanks.

 

OUCH!! Hope you can get it back to normal again without putting a huge hole in your pocket.

On a brighter note, this is a great post!

Majority of us like to see the IS as low as possible (on coils) because the stance look so sick. Some even encourage to tuck the tires below the fenders. Some even say, you ain't low enough until you hear metal scraping.

Well now that we've seen the damages that can be done when riding low, are you willing to sacrafice/take a chance with your own car to get a low stance?

 

The fender liner wouldn't be strong enough to bend the fender itself, it had to be the tire itself touching the fender.

 

wow some GT-Fs on a tungsten i guess im not the only one c(: hope you get that fixed soon!

 

Looks like I forgot to mention it in my first post, but just so everyone knows, these pictures were taken AFTER raising my ride height by almost a full centimeter (below is a picture when my car was at its lowest - slight tucking front and rear). I don't know if this damage was caused before or after the height adjustment, obviously I'm hoping it's from before and I never noticed.



I don't think I want to go any higher - the current ride height is supposed to be set RIGHT before the tire tucks, so the top of the tire is on the same plane as the bottom of the fender. I did ask the shop to stiffen my coils to 24/30 so hopefully that helps. I'll also go ahead and roll my fenders, heatgun my liner and be careful about going up driveways. Does everyone agree this is the ideal plan?

 

doesn't anyone know that your not suppose to turn your wheels when angling up/down a dip lol and that is how you avoid crushing your fender being slammed.. there's places where we just can't go sometimes lol

 

I learned this the hard way. I always heard you're supposed to angle into driveways to avoid scraping, but I thought that meant angling the wheels, not the car itself. Oops.

 

Just rent one of these guys and a heat gun, should fix it.

http://www.stylintrucks.com/part.asp...0716&scid=AFFP


how to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqiTfYyaI1A

 

Here mine!



Thats why i went on AIR.

 

hopefully getting this done this weekend. my friend is gonna walk me through it, i'll be sure to take some pics for you guys

 

true true, difficult to even make turns. but gets me out of driving to some places hahah

 

That would be awesome.. Thanks!! I love these forums and you guys are swell

Someday, I hope to come out to some meets and "meet" some of you guys and girls.. I get so much info on what to do and not do to my 2IS ...

 

That sucks Brian, but the beauty of it is, you learn about your car and fix the settings when things like this happen!!

 

That's why I'd went raised mines up 1.5 finger gaps all around, also I'm running stretched tires...