Grr stupid curbs

[xwd]

I'm still trying to get used to driving the BRZ which is a much much lower car than I'm used to driving at this point. My other two cars are a Forester XT and Jeep Wrangler...

Went too far into a space with a curb and ran the front bumper up over it, ended up dislodging one of the plastic clips and putting some scratches on the underside of the bumper. Thankfully it didn't just crunch straight in... Nobody to blame but myself was too busy talking to my passenger and not paying attention to the depth of the spot.

[BioRage]

I go up all curbs and bumps very slow, even on my Fozzy.

On the bright side, sounds like no major damage.

On the other bright side, it's always an excuse to get a body kit

[sbxjap]

you gotta get use to driving at angles too... speed bumps, ramps, driveways, curbs in parking lots, little islands in parking lots... I learned my lesson with my Civic and the body kits....

[wallace03]

i already drive a low car, and ive master the dimensions of it. i usually will get an inch away from where i need to be. now i gotta master the dimensions of the BRZ and be one with the car

[#87]

Yea , try practicing in a lot. When I first started driving I was scared to hit stuff, I drove around the parking lot getting close to things, then get out and see how much space there actually was. As for ground clearance, better safe than sorry stop well before or drive around things, take driveways at an angle

[Laika]

I don't think you need to be all that careful about speed bumps at all, you can take them head on just go at a low speed. At least that's how I feel based on PA speed bumps.

The Japanese are very unique people. For them, owning a car is more of a privilege than for us Americans due to issues with space. This usually means that owning more than 1 car is next to impossible. For this reason, most affordable Japanese cars are designed pretty practically. Part of this shows in the clearance of the front bumper. Most of us might think there is too much clearance but this greatly decreases your risk of damaging the front bumper cover over roads you/the Japanese may see on a daily drive. More of this shows in the ride height. There's a lot of wheel gap and Subaru could have effectively made the center of gravity another two inches lower by cutting down the wheel gap but they didn't so it would be possible to live with this car on a daily basis. It's a ~$25,000 car this kind of means that for most owners it will be their only car so it needs to be daily drivable. Now a $90,000 NSX can be more ridiculous because it comes with the assumption the owner is not so worried about daily drivability.

How offtopic did I just go?

Nevertheless, I need to post a picture of my driveway at some point. Most owners would cringe at the thought of having get up it but I've been able to do it without any scraping. Although I did keep hearing a NASTY sound that turned out to just be the inside wheel spinning very briefly

[sbxjap]

lol, my Civic doesn't look it, but it scraps the exhaust when I go over speed bumps wrong.... so the carefulness just carries over to the BRZ...

The BRZ/FRS is actually pretty high considering it's styling... the speed bumps and driveways I couldn't do with my Civic are done-in with the BRZ... some driveways I still rather not tempt though...

also, living in the city, the car will naturally get scraps, dents, etc... so don't let it run your ride. When you get a body kit or get it lowered, that's when you wanna be extra careful.... the shattering of fiberglass is NOT a pretty sound....

[DeepHunta]

oh for real! I am super carefull on curbs now. Bumps not so much since I haven't lowered the BRZ yet.

I don't worry about these things on my legacy 2.5gt.