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#50
I never thought I would say it, but you need to lower your car. like right now.
I'm personally not lowering mine. A) I don't want to be like everyone else. B) I've already scraped the bumper on some old skool curbs in my grandma's hometown. Not doing that again. At least right now its far under where it's not visible unless you look for it. C) I've already had to fix a VW Bug's brake line with my favorite shoelaces to keep the line from dragging on the highway after my friend ran over something and it ripped it from it's brackets. It the ride had been higher (and if my friend was a better driver) it wouldn't have happened. It was a pain in the **** to get home after that.
Sometimes being high is a good thing. That being said, lowered looks nice, but it's not a requirement looks wise.
#52
Originally Posted by ocrida
kinda sounds like you dont know how to drive and u have bad luck?
My scrape I got the first week I got the xB, and I was used to the clearance of the junker I owned before it. The curbs are often much higher in old midwest towns, to keep people out of the drainage that would accumulate in the streets when the streets were made of brick. Combination of the two = scrape.
Those are my personal reasons I wouldn't lower it. But the point is, not every one should feel the need to do it just because everyone else does it or says it should be done. It takes away from some of the originality that goes with these cars if everyone does the same thing. I get annoyed that every Scion event I go to, some "helpful" young man suggests that I should lower my car or says it looks too stock. It looks fine the way it is, thanks. Lowering isn't for everybody.
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