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Old 11-30-04 | 09:51 PM
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When going over bumps on this car what is it that scrapes? tranny?

Just wondering since it does and will happen, what I'm scraping when I go over bumps...

Anything to worry about to a serious manner?

On the Audi A4, you can damage the Oil pan bolt, and if it gets really damaged it's very hard to remove the bolt and change your oil for example..

anything similar on the SC?
Old 11-30-04 | 09:53 PM
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most likely the sway bar bushings
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Do you have stock suspension or is your car lowered? Do you have aftermarket wheels, if so what size? In stock form, SC's does not scrape at all..
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Any possibility it is the exhaust pipe or catylitic convertor? Usually thats what I hear (never in my car cause I have factory suspension, but some other peoples car).
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yeah...i can confirm that...right now my SC4 is stock, and at my school we have a speed bump almost every 20 feet...it's absolutely rediculous...but so far, not a single scrape from underneath! I'm actually quite impressed....
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Unless your exhaust is loose can't can't really scrape anything..
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Originally posted by One HoT SC400
Unless your exhaust is loose can't can't really scrape anything..
W3RD. I never scraped anything until i put my Bomex on.

scrape scrape scrape.......
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Originally posted by O. L. T.
W3RD. I never scraped anything until i put my Bomex on.

scrape scrape scrape.......
boy do i feel you on that..... sucks to have such an overhang, i think i'm chalkin up around 700 just to have my driveway repaved so i can make it into the garage without scraping =/
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6 people in a bone stock 1995 Sc300. Scrapped going up shopping center driveways.
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Originally posted by LexAnt
boy do i feel you on that..... sucks to have such an overhang, i think i'm chalkin up around 700 just to have my driveway repaved so i can make it into the garage without scraping =/
it's about time to re-fiberglass under there, the bottom is getting thin
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O.T.O.H. it could be worse.... My bimmer is 2.5 inches LOWER than my Sc in the front
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Originally posted by OlschoolGs
6 people in a bone stock 1995 Sc300. Scrapped going up shopping center driveways.
My car scrapped over a speed bump with 4 people( including me) in my sc400. My car is stock!!
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i never experience scrapping and drive like a maniac over speed bumps and pot holes. I only experience minor scrapping in the fender wells now since i lowed my car like 2 inches. Perhaps your shocks are dieing?
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Originally posted by siaxazn
i never experience scrapping and drive like a maniac over speed bumps and pot holes. I only experience minor scrapping in the fender wells now since i lowed my car like 2 inches. Perhaps your shocks are dieing?
anyone in CA will know the entrances to shopping centers suck, and my complex in west hollywood has a underground parking and I scrape coming in and out, try to go very slow, since I'm approaching a busy sidewalk too, but it still scrapes coming out and going in.
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How the hell did you fit 6 people in your car?? LOL


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