ebay lip, protekt skidplate, or nothing?
 

Due to living on a hill and a f*cked up driveway angle I scrape my front bumper on a daily basis. Finally thinking about maybe doing something, but I'm not sure. My first thought was a CS style lip, but given that it will scrape every day I'm afraid it would end up in my driveway and/or just look sh*tty. Looking at pictures of the Protekt skidplates it looks like where they're mounted is a little far back to do me much good.

So...would a lip just get torn off/would Protekt do any good?

Lift your car an inch?

OP didn't state and hard to tell from pics IF it's lowered.

Fix your driveway?

Pics of the driveway

Irrespective it can still be raised by coils and/or tyre aspect ratio.

There are other options


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Oops, yeah I should have mentioned...it's not lowered and has stock wheels/suspension. The driveway itself is in decent shape, I think it's that the hill is at a fairly steep angle so the driveway itself isn't anywhere near level...no matter how you enter, something will scrape :mad0260:

Try again but with angle, your driveway is flat and i dont see the problem.

Lol obviously there is a problem, didn't you see the picture of under his bumper? He's not scraping the due to improper angle of entry.

his photo is not doing justice, and may look "flat" to you but there must be some incline...

OP, my 2 cents. (like you said) the Protekt's mount too far back to prevent the issue your having.

Id get a cheep lip or splitter/diffuser and see how cheese grated it gets, if it holds up you could get something more substantial.

You're going to scrape with any low car on that driveway. You need driveway ramps.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...amps&FORM=IGRE

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Two suggestions:

1) Mask off the front facing portions of the bumper and rhino-line or similar the under side.
2) Run a slightly larger tire. I personally run 235/45R17's and the added height does wonders. Plus it fills up the wheel wells nicely if you dont plan to lower the car. Speedo/gear ratio will change a bit so just keep that in mind.

Or google for "lift spacers brz"

That was google street view lol. The ones down below might give a better idea.

I may wind up doing that...if it gets torn off I'd only be out ~$60 or $70 or whatever.

Those I like...that would probably let me run a lip that might normally get chewed up or torn off. As long as nobody walked off with them...gonna check those out.

I'll check that stuff out as well.

I just bought new tires a month ago...don't think that will fly with my wife, but maybe next time. Wouldn't mind filling it out a bit :bonk:

Good ideas here, thanks guys.
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Ugh Bing....Also they more than likely will get stolen. It's better to make a cheap wood ramp and Rino line the underside of the lip.

It's just an example, he could make them out of anything cheap or buy something nice and bring it in at night, relax haha. btw.... Bing has the best image search tools online by kind of a wide margin. Best tool for the job beats brand loyalty every time, that's why I bought a FR-S.

Holy crap!
I would be doomed.
Would have to move.


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Where along the driveway are you scraping?
And are you entering at an angle of at least 45 degrees?
From what I see, you can easily go up from the left side and park on the right.
I have to enter my driveway and exit the same way to avoid scraping. I just make a quick u-turn every time I need to go to the other direction.
If you aren't 3 wheeling, your technique is probably wrong.

I'm used to it by now, except people routinely blow through the stop sign at the top which is only two houses up...will probably get t-boned eventually :thumbdown:

I've tried various angles/approaches...I think exactly once there was no scrapes but I haven't been able to do it again, lol. Unfortunately it's a duplex and the right side is the neighbors.

I need to go out at like 2:00AM and go in and out a bunch or something...hard to do during normal hours 'cause we're right over the blind side of the hill and people frequently ignore the stop sign.

Think I'll get my wife to stand in the driveway and mark where I'm hitting with some chalk, might give me an idea of a better angle that'd be somewhat consistent.

anything "substantial" that you could add could have the negative benefit of damaging the driveway, which is even worse. I agree with the spray on truck bed liner. And maybe a camera for the road if people run the stop sign that much, that way if someone does hit you there will be proof.

That's a good idea. Could put one inside above the garage door and get power from the ceiling where the opener does...just drill a small hole for the lens.

How wide is the sidewalk by your driveway? Might be able to pull onto sidewalk, then back in? That's how I have to get my FRS in the shop at work.


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It's actually almost 10 feet wide, and that would totally work except that there is a metal box full of Comcast wires in exactly the wrong place.

Even when I'm not a Comcast customer they still find a way to screw me, lol.

Hmm, hmm. Maybe we have here first test mouse to try out & review these? :)

hehe...10mm, I could do that

It was half a joke. Lift spacers probably are cheaper/simpler way to do it, if just rising ground clearance is the goal. They usually are of different height, 1/4", 1/2", 1", 1.5" .. bit i guess >1" there might issues similar to overlowering to appear, adding need to fix changed suspension geometry, relocate diff and like that ..

Meh, I say leave it. Think of it as an exercise in "letting go."

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I have the same issue.

Driveway ramps - most of them are for rounded curbs, in my particular driveway entry that's not applicable, I'm on my phone so it's hard to tell exactly but it doesn't seem like that's a good fit for you either. Apart from that, there are also the issues of them being stolen as well as the City - you may get fined for having them as they can obstruct the street sweeping and/or neighbors may complain.

You have a BRZ, so do I and I have the STI lip with the under lip extension that has saved the bumper and the lip more times than I can count. It's a wear item, so after what seems like just about a year and a half or so if use, I now have to replace the extension again, but in my opinion it's totally worth it to (unfortunately) still scrape every day but know that apart from the extension the car is fine.

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I forgot to mention that draining during rains and debris collecting on them are other issues driveway ramps contend with.

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Yeah, after doing a little research that seems to be the case here. We get a good amount of water going downhill when it rains, plus a god-awful eucalyptus tree that sheds leaves and branches non-stop. Bummer, that was my wife's vote lol...the left front on her sedan scrapes as bad or worse than I do somehow.

Same here. Wife's Mazda3. Our tree is a Chinese elm though (sheds like a MF) and we're slanted the opposite way. Same type of wall on the left side. I've been giving it some thought after scraping on our driveway for the last year. $50 or so isn't much for the extension but it also wears the headlight tabs. If I install the quick disconnects I won't worry about that particular issue and the extension as a continual wear item may become less bothersome. The only downside is the double sided 3M tape which I think would need removal prior to installation of a new one.

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Damn... I don't think anyone could handle that driveway unscathed... How often do you have to replace your brake pads?

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Don't know yet, lol.