How many times have you scraped your VRs front bumper?

[Kent-VRS]

Thought I’d try an alternative route to work this morning and ended up going down an old cobbled street. I was taking it easy as it was quite rough and I’ve scraped the front bumper on my Octy VRs countless times (had a complete re-sprayed once already), just as I thought “I used to fly down here in my old Sierra"..... Crunch.....
No real damage, just yet another scrape on the underside of the front bumper.
I love my VRs but I’m starting to think that the VRs isn’t particularly well suited to the rubbish roads around here in Devon. I think it’ll be an Octy II Scout for my next car please.

So am I the only one....?

How many times have other fellow Briskodians done this (VRs or Not).....?

How do pimped Saxo’s manage being 3mm of the ground.....?

[Goochie]

I regularly scrape mine - the the point that I just dont care any more

I think Saxo's and alike must have smaller overhangs.

[Kent-VRS]

Like you Goochie.. I'm getting to the point where it's just another scrape.

[Goochie]

The worst occasions are when you know you're going to have to scrape it again on the way out/home from a carpark.

[ag.morley]

The Fabia Bumper is Quite low also, in Two an a Half years, Never been scrapped, Speed bumps.......10 mph. [ sorry to butt in ]

[Carl VRS]

Never, nor has the girlfriend...yet!

[tfboy]

Never the front bumper. The wheels on the other hand.....

[mattbeef]

Wheels are fine but im a 10mph kind of guy if i know im going/likely to scrape the front.

Caught it a couple of time now but its the underside so im not too fussed really

[fatty5000]

the day i bought mine i was aware that its low after reading up about it on here
pulled out the dealers which has a crap driveway ans it scraped like fook
since then i've had a few here and there none of which can be seen unless you crouch down to look i am getting to the point where it's just another scrape now though
although when my old man drives the car sometimes he is warned about wheels bumper screwing it when cold etc
as foe my wife do you really think i would let someone who hears it when she hits a bollard but keeps on driving cos she thought it would be ok drive my car
(hercar looks like someone has done a ram raid in it)

[Zetec-S]

Mines awful now when you feel under the bumper edge it is scraped all over, although most of this is down to the previous owner.

It also has two pieces of paint missing on the vary edge, both down to times when SWMBO was driving!! Not too bad and you have to really know they are there to see them, still annoying though.

Anybody know an easy way to touch these up?

[mannyo]

Wheels on my old vRS where like new, however the underside of the front bumper was wrecked.

[KenONeill]

Don't have a vRS, but I think I've caught the front valance plate a couple of times on one particular cattle grid on single carriageway trunk road.

[VRSPhil]

Just the once for me. I try to avoid parking too close up to kerbs/driving on rough ground etc because I don't really want to smash/bend the bumper but scrapes on the underside of it don't really bother me, you only see them when you're under it

[Stuart_J]

If its the same as the Ordinary Octy bumper they appear to sag in the middle. Ive scraped mine loads of times after the car was lowered.
There are 2 tricks I know of
Put an extra self tapper in the middle & screw the trailing edge up to the members above
or as on mine we got a very light angle, about 10mm x 10mm x 1.5 thick & pop rivited that along the inside edge of the trailing edge of the bumper & that stopped the middle sagging.

[RobClubley]

It's MUCH worse now. Bloody New Zealand gutters!

[Octygone]

Hi Rob
Your up Late/early .............(delete as required)

All my Vrs did was scrape the road /sleeping policemen/ peoples drives etc.etc

[fatty5000]

i got one like rob's top picture but you can't really see it after looking today mine aint too bad only 2 big ones

[Ant.]

I've scraped mine three times since I've had it. They've all happened in multi-story car parks where its difficult to avoid it. I grit my teeth and tense up every time I have to go down a ramp. Its a horrible feeling knowing you're going to scrape and there's nothing you can do about it.

Going OT a bit, scraping alloys make a horrible noise! Kerbed my near side wheels a while ago trying to let an ambulance squeeze past. Ouch. Luckily getting them refurbished soon.

[fatty5000]

the grinning technique it's like swerving your body to one side when its a bit tight to pass another car

they both seem to work though !!!!!!

[starch]

Unfortunatly there is a horrible gutter that runs across the end of my drive, so unless i hit it right most mornings, but its black already so not obious til u feel it. gunna get some cold tar or someting try and stop it.