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Old Sep 14, 2005
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Scrape Front End

Hi anybody ever scrape their front end when parking...I scrape the parking block. What is scraping the block? When I look underneath it looks fine.
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Old Sep 14, 2005
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how do you know that you "scrape the block" if you dont even know what "sraping the block" is??

i wish i could help ya
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the Black rubber thing (sorry i dont know the technical term for this) that is underneath the front bumper. If you look beneath the front bumper, you see four or five rubber clips or clamps that will bend down or up if you scrape beneath your front bumper.
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oh yeah. hmm i wonder why its called a block? i removed mine when i had my front lip installed, it looked odd.
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I mean I scraped the parking block (the cement block that prevents your car from hitting the parking lot wall). But I am not sure what part of my car scraped it...it almost sounded like metal scraping against the cement or some kind of hard plastic...the only metal I see underneath the front bumper are two towing metal loops (is that what you call them?).
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rubber strip under bumper or some kind of plastic piece
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its the rubber front under spoiler or the bottom plastic or the very bottom of the bumper thats it
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Man i did it twice, and it F#CUKED my fron bumper up, its not really that noticeable unless you wash the car, but still it pisses me off!!!
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How did it mess up your bumper?
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scrapped the paint off the bottom of it. You can kinda make it out if you stand in fron of my car like ten feet away, its that bad. Its also from drving in the snow, and hitting built up snow in the road.
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I scrape my front lip everyday, i could careless
No big deal.
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i demolished that plastic air dam plastic thing underneath the front end. i hit a ice chunk and it broke off.
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haha my car is red...under my front bumper is all black. ive scraped the **** out of it. whatever tho, its not a 70,000$ car
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when my paint is damaged my soul is damaged, it hurts my bones!!!
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Originally Posted by jackburton
when my paint is damaged my soul is damaged, it hurts my bones!!!
Need a hug my friend?
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i've done that once, altho I can't really scrape, more like bump, cause my car is low and I have a lip.
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Originally Posted by jackburton
when my paint is damaged my soul is damaged, it hurts my bones!!!

You wanna talk about hurting your soul? Try backing up into a piece of ice just high enough to hit your back bumper scraping the corner up AND putting a crack in your rear fender. Oh, did I mention I did this the day after I got my car?
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Damn...
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Originally Posted by civicvtec1ps
I scrape my front lip everyday, i could careless
No big deal.
"i could care less" dont people mean to say- "I COULDNT care less"?

i mean- if you "could" care less, that would mean that you actually do care, because there is apparently less caring that you COULD be doing.

I "couldnt" care less is the way to go. this way- you let em know that you care SO little that its not possible that you could care any less.

im bored guys, sorry!
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My front lip is all fux0red from hitting those concrete things and from going to fast over driveways with dips in them. I am actually missing a rather large piece from under neath. A metal bracket came off the last time and it was still attached to a 4 inch piece of plastic.

oh well
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I park my car like 2 feet away from the thing. It's a small car, so there is no reason to pull up that far.
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man my front bumper has gone to hell...it has more scratches than anything...all over the sides, under it is a mess, on top where the grill goes is all scratched up...also my driveway at my house is so damn steep that even tho its at stock ride height it still scrapes
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im glad i have a ton of polish and wax on my bumper. but it sounds nasty scrapping on my the frame or exhaust of all things.
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