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I just purchased a 2012 C63 coupe. My driveway is very steep and the bottom of the car scrapes when going down or coming up. It looks like it's scraping the exhaust pipe on the drivers side (the connector).
Does anyone have experience with lift shocks that can be temporarily raised for this kind of issue? If not, are there other solutions that have worked such as a skid plate installed on the bottom of the vehicle?
You sure it's an exhaust pipe? Is it at the rear? A steep curb I'm guessing ?if so they make curb helpers for that
Have you tried entering and exiting the driveway via an angle, I am lowered and have to do that to avoid my front lip scraping ...
Maybe take a pick of the driveway, and or a pick of the car at the point of scraping park it and take a pic underneath may help with figuring out the right corse of action
Thank you for the responses...I'm sure it's the exhaust (not the tail pipe itself) scraping, about mid-car. I got down and looked at what was scraping as my son drove down and up again. Here is a photo. I need a way to raise the car about 1 inch for just getting over this hump...or I need to take a sledge hammer to the driveway
Also, I tried going at an angle, but as you can see from the pictures, I have to line up the car to get it down the hill, so that's not an option and even when I tried it, it still scraped.
Edit: actually, I assume you are scraping on the part of the driveway to the left of the sidewalk in the pic. For that, I would think you'd have to redo the driveway to reduce the grade. If you plan on driving low cars all the time, it may be worth looking into.
Last edited by m a x i m u s; Nov 28, 2015 at 08:36 PM.
Interesting. I would imagine a small speed bump should do the job. It should slightly raise the chassis up so you can angle it into the ramp without a problem.
From these pics it looks like you scrape your undercarriage on the part where the sidewalk hits the steep part going down into the driveway? Have you tried driving over this section at a 45* angle?
is your car lowered at all? The driveway doesn't look that steep...
All good feedback thank you. I feel the reason the exhaust scrapes is due to the long frame of the car and the fact that the front and rear wheels straddle the hump. I either need to flatten (raise) the part of the driveway where I enter it (on the right in the first photo) to flatten the entry or find a way to temporarily raise the suspension (I think it's possible but for $2-3k).
Interesting. I would imagine a small speed bump should do the job. It should slightly raise the chassis up so you can angle it into the ramp without a problem.
+1, somewhere around here or a little further down depending when exactly you bottom out.
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Originally Posted by Jasonoff
+1, somewhere around here or a little further down depending when exactly you bottom out.
Thats exactly what I was thinking, but I think OP would need something a little bit deeper so the chassis would stay raised until 3/4 of the car passes the hump of the driveway, if he can get something like the bump you posted cut in half and laid parallel with the driveway (wide enough apart to hold both wheels) he should be golden
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