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craigolfmk4 VAG Resident

Number of posts: 371 Ride: MK4 Golf Registration date: 2009-01-28
 | Subject: The gripes of running your car low... Sun Jun 20 2010, 19:08 | |
| So other than the daily rubbish of having difficulty dealing with speedbumps and other objects that more cars at standard height can deal with quite easily it now appears I have great difficulty in getting the car up some ramps to get underneath to change the oil.
Who else out there faces similar problems? Must be a few i'm guessing.... |
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Cymro VAG Wales Admin

Number of posts: 2187 Ride: MK3 Polo Coupe ZZR1200, Mk2 Golf VR6 Registration date: 2008-03-26
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Sun Jun 20 2010, 22:16 | |
| i cant drive through middle of my town  but theres nothing there anyway. _________________ "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit" McLOVIN - RE: Polo Show 2011 - There was a ginger alert at the gate?? Man that place is well ahead of the times, next they'll be installing gas fittings into the shower heads in the gingers showers...  |
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20v-turbo VAG Legend

Number of posts: 3476 Ride: Audi A3 20v Turbo (BOO) Mk2 golf gti 8v (Mario ITB) Registration date: 2009-11-01
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Sun Jun 20 2010, 23:44 | |
| when i ha d the mk2 i had to plan my route, cudnt go on rams, gt a cats eye shaped dent on the sump, speeedbumps arrghh, had t be carefull when reversing, it was a good snow plow nd grass cutter lool |
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tombombvw Keyboard Warrior

Number of posts: 249 Ride: mk4 golf Registration date: 2010-01-18
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Mon Jun 21 2010, 12:42 | |
| | Cymro wrote: | i cant drive through middle of my town but theres nothing there anyway. |
i can get over that hump...just, if i go realy slowly lol
one problem i get is any humps or bumps in the road, at night the hedges light up with a trail of sparks, i should rely check what it is thats slowly being worn away lol |
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thebreadmaker VAG Whore

Number of posts: 1079 Ride: mk1 golf Registration date: 2008-02-08
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Mon Jun 21 2010, 12:56 | |
| and it ruins your suspension! mounts etc
exhaust scrape is nothing most speedbumps are doable. |
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Guest Guest
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Mon Jun 21 2010, 13:40 | |
| roads aroound bangor are just horrible,potholes galore! camber's a killer and all specially coming off the roundabout by penrhyn castle! |
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Chaz! Keyboard Warrior

Number of posts: 40 Ride: Mk2 Registration date: 2010-07-07
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Thu Jul 08 2010, 21:31 | |
| I scrape my subframe and jacking points on cambered roads, my splitter on everything, and it takes 2 jacks to raise my car, a widowmaker to lift it from the pinchweld, so i can get a trolley jack under the jacking point  |
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REDLooP VAG Wales Admin

Number of posts: 1164 Ride: 1.0 LUPO Low & Slow Registration date: 2008-05-12
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Fri Jul 09 2010, 09:53 | |
| | SubframeScraper wrote: | I scrape my subframe and jacking points on cambered roads, my splitter on everything, and it takes 2 jacks to raise my car, a widowmaker to lift it from the pinchweld, so i can get a trolley jack under the jacking point 
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Ever thought about driving it on to bits of wood.
Makes it so much easier to get a jack under then |
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thebreadmaker VAG Whore

Number of posts: 1079 Ride: mk1 golf Registration date: 2008-02-08
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Fri Jul 09 2010, 12:12 | |
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BigGR5 Scene Mincer

Number of posts: 547 Ride: Mk1 Golf 1.3i, Passat Wagon 20VT Registration date: 2008-04-19
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Fri Jul 09 2010, 18:20 | |
| I hate it when you drive over a dead animal and drag it along the road - bits of dead badger stink when they cook on the exhaust !! lol |
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aircool Keyboard Warrior

Number of posts: 36 Ride: notch, lupo , S1 RS Turbo Registration date: 2010-01-15
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Tue Jul 27 2010, 00:34 | |
| Ive had to make some beam guards on the notch, and they are already wearing thin! looks cool at night though  and my old man managed to maroon it on the curb outside my house a few years back, had to get the jack out to get it moving  |
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Cymro VAG Wales Admin

Number of posts: 2187 Ride: MK3 Polo Coupe ZZR1200, Mk2 Golf VR6 Registration date: 2008-03-26
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Tue Jul 27 2010, 09:40 | |
| unwrapping squirrel from the subframe isnt nice. _________________ "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit" McLOVIN - RE: Polo Show 2011 - There was a ginger alert at the gate?? Man that place is well ahead of the times, next they'll be installing gas fittings into the shower heads in the gingers showers...  |
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20v-turbo VAG Legend

Number of posts: 3476 Ride: Audi A3 20v Turbo (BOO) Mk2 golf gti 8v (Mario ITB) Registration date: 2009-11-01
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Tue Jul 27 2010, 13:57 | |
| | Cymro wrote: | | unwrapping squirrel from the subframe isnt nice. |
i had a polecat wrapped round my cv and drive shaft not pretty |
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Cymro VAG Wales Admin

Number of posts: 2187 Ride: MK3 Polo Coupe ZZR1200, Mk2 Golf VR6 Registration date: 2008-03-26
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Tue Jul 27 2010, 15:08 | |
| ^^^thats beats a squirrel as pole cats are a rare species _________________ "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit" McLOVIN - RE: Polo Show 2011 - There was a ginger alert at the gate?? Man that place is well ahead of the times, next they'll be installing gas fittings into the shower heads in the gingers showers...  |
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20v-turbo VAG Legend

Number of posts: 3476 Ride: Audi A3 20v Turbo (BOO) Mk2 golf gti 8v (Mario ITB) Registration date: 2009-11-01
 | Subject: Re: The gripes of running your car low... Tue Jul 27 2010, 20:05 | |
| | Cymro wrote: | ^^^thats beats a squirrel as pole cats are a rare species |
oh ummmm, shit looool well his fault not mine |
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