Ouch... Curb Rash Under Front Bumper!
07-22-09, 04:54 AM
#16
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Okay, so I was parking my car and was not aware that I was so close to the curb and ended up running into it scraping the underside of my front bumper a good amount. The curb was maybe a little less than .5'' higher than the bumper and you can see the scrape marks on the front/edge of the bumper when looking at it eye to eye. What makes it worse is that the curb was painted white, and now I have white gashes and scratches on my bumper. Luckily the curb wasnt much higher and I didnt crack, directly run into it head on, or really mess up my bumper.
Have you guys done this to your IS's? What did you do to fix it (re-painting, touch up paint, wetsand & buff) or did you just leave it alone? Im thinking of possibly buying the lip kit now that I have cosmetically damaged my bumper, but would this cover up the bottom part of the bumper where I scraped it up?
Have you guys done this to your IS's? What did you do to fix it (re-painting, touch up paint, wetsand & buff) or did you just leave it alone? Im thinking of possibly buying the lip kit now that I have cosmetically damaged my bumper, but would this cover up the bottom part of the bumper where I scraped it up?
same here
07-22-09, 09:31 AM
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not too long ago i got curb rash, but it was underneath. even though you can't see it, i thought about getting a gfx lip, but it looks like the 09 is two pieces and doesn't cover the center (where the rash is)?
i recently got over it after seeing my friends' g35's and IS because mine looked mint compared to theirs lol. they're girls so they probably don't even care like how i do haha
i recently got over it after seeing my friends' g35's and IS because mine looked mint compared to theirs lol. they're girls so they probably don't even care like how i do haha
07-22-09, 10:05 AM
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I scraped mine the first day I got the car. Ooops! Used to driving a Mazda MPV minivan where I could just run over those concrete blocks. I'm not too worried, like other people said, you're bound to do it sooner or later.
07-22-09, 10:08 AM
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the bottom of my lip is scraped six ways to sunday, and i'm not even that low. i just glop on some touch-up paint over the scrapes and call it a day. nobody can see it unless they tilt their head down anyway. in a weird sense, a scraped lip is kinda like a badge of honor
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