Do you worry about scratches under the front bumper?

[SubieNate]

Putting something on wet sounds like a pain just to protect the car for one day.

Who cares if it's ugly, it's on the track. If you have time to think, "Man, that blue tape is ugly" while driving hard on a track, I hear Schumacher is looking for an understudy.

Nathan

[Sutty]

Originally Posted by Liquidsnake

I have one, but its not visible; but it drives me crazy. Am I being OCD? Should I just let it go, or cover it up when I get home? I have touch up paint.

I feel your pain. My wife was driving my car the other week whilst her Veloster turbo was getting paint protection, tinting etc. She managed to drop it off the driveway too fast and there are multiple scratches under the bumper, up until that point the car was perfect, and I'd been driving it for about 6 weeks.

It kills me that every time I wash the car and come to wipe off under the bumper that I can feel these scratches . I know it's minor and not something that would really detract from resale value etc. but knowing that it is done really pisses me off.

I have forgiven the wife, though it's going to cost her when we go to Japan at Xmas and visit the Toyota garage at Shibuya, Tokyo. TRD goodies galore

[brocktwalker]

Does anyone know a good way to repair this scraping of the under bumper or is it not worth it?

[86_ZN6]

Originally Posted by brocktwalker

Does anyone know a good way to repair this scraping of the under bumper or is it not worth it?

cover it up with vinyl

[Dispect]

Or plasti dip

[Spd229]

Hah...I kinda cared for a while. Then a road gator hit it within three hours of having the car coated with Wolf's hard body. Normally I'd avoid those, but this one was ever so slightly thrown at me lol.

So now that it's pretty gnarled with nice long, wrapping scratches I'm rather meh about it all. Fortunately the scratches are just deep and thin though, so they aren't super apparent from a distance. Sure I'd facepalm if I scrubbed again, but I figured in a few years if I really want I can just get it touched up; since I don't plan on selling, I don't think anyone has a reason to knock my car just because it doesn't have factory paint. Hell, by that point maybe I'll want a nice yellow (competition yellow mica perhaps).

I can understand the mindset of wanting to keep the car looking new, that makes some people just as happy as flogging it to no end.

Don't think you can have both though, and if you can, maybe you just vinyl wrapped the car.

I do think I might plasti-dip the underside though, just to hide all the scratches at some point. So I can just ignore em.

[Zhangy]

I believe 80% of the frs without front lip has scratches below their fender. that's what you get for having a low car

[Jfheisenberg]

No...

[sallgoodman123]

I used to, but after the 10th scratch you kind of just start to care a little bit less.

[G-awesome]

Neva! lol It seems absolutely pointless to worry. No one will ever notice and it's the bottom of your car. It's bound to get scraped, gunked, or dirtied half to hell.

My former BRZ's underside of the front bumper looked like it was attacked by a million cats. If in doubt about parking curbs, just stop a tad farther. Our cars are not that long compared to an average car.

[mannie]

Took me a day...one fracking day. Pulled up to work parking was by a sidewalk, was barely near it and the inertia from shifting to park a put several one inch scratches some which took off paint, right under the front lip. Gotta bend over to see but yeah first low car, gotta learn sometime.

[notout86]

I have said it before and will repeat. The front lip should raise at any speed under say 10kmph and drop down for aerodynamic reasons for the rest of the time. It could be as simple and inexpensive as having the air flow making it happen against springs or more expensively by electric motor or hydraulics. Heaps of cars could benefit.

[frs1986]

Hi group in my case yes i do worry about scratches under the front bumber but. Try something to protect it

[tracerit]

I bought a front lip to avoid scrapes on the bumper but it only made things worse as it just further protruded something for my driveway to scrape against. I'm thinking about taking it off as I actually prefer the look of the car without it but after drilling those holes... :/