has anyone else had "issues" with getting a BIT to close to parking curb things and bumping your bumper into them... If I do it one more time i will lose it.

if anyone has insight on how to avoid this other than the obvious, please share.

I gouged my bumper (thank god it's underneath) into one of these stupid inventions yesterday, put me in a super fantastic mood for mothers day.

also shoud i worry about the paint peeling?? or did honda engineers realize that this could be an issue for idiots like myself.

thanks guys, btw i'm new in case you couldn't tell,
John

 

I don't look at the underside of my chin spoiler anymore...
Obviously parking block designers don't much care about us low-slung car drivers. You approach them slowly and eventually figure out exactly where your front end is If there's a car positioned next to you sometimes you can get an idea from the reflection in that car... Otherwise it's trial and error, I'm afriad.

Even after five years I sometimes bump something when pulling into the garage... but there's only soft stuff in front of where I park

Good luck with it.

 

With 214 miles on the odometer I pulled out onto the street near my sister's house as slowly as humanly possible and scaped the bottom of the spoiler.

The next day I went to have an invisible bra (ventureshield) put on, when I went to the shop, the guy said 'no problem', he gave it a light wet sand and a spray touch up. The 'scuff' is gone and it is impossible to seewhere it occured. A week later he installed the bra.

The best part is the guy did it for free, he finally got his shop re-opened from the pair of hurricanes that got us last year, and he was happy to have some work. The invisible bra was pricey so he still came out ahead.

good luck, the black they used matched perfectly, you shouldn't feel too bad, it'll clean up fine.

 

i still hit mine every once in awhile...
worse than that though, i drove a friend's 2006 aston martin vanquish s
last week- it is lower than our cars (and priced closer to $300k!)
scraped it twice going in and out of a shopping center parking lot.
he told me that he does the same thing all the time!

you can fix yours if it shows or bothers you enough...
the main thing is to try to avoid doing it again- but i know that its not easy to avoid!

 

This precious thing from Coastal Metals has saved my front bumper numerous times when parking close to those concrete dividers.

 

can you give us a link to it?
interesting solution, but i would probably just scrape it too!!

 

If there is a 4-door car next to you, park even with the rear door.
If it's a 2-door next to you, park even with where a rear door would be.
That should keep you from sticking too far out of the stall in the back or
from hitting a curb in the front.

Another idea is to back in whenever possible, especially if it's a stall
where two cars pull in facing eachother like this: ---> <--- . I've seen
SUV's and trucks pull in too far and bump some little car in front fo them
because they couldn't see over their hood enough and guessed wrong on how
much room they had. If you back into those stalls they can see the taller rear
end of your car much easier and hopefully won't hit it.

 

Hers's tje Coastal Metals site

http://app.infopia.com/Shop/Control/...9812/SFV/14050

The guard works great protecting the lip paint but the guard does get bent in the process, tradeoff.

 

Better to scrape a $110 lip than an entire front bumper is what I think. The bottom of my coastal lip is HEAVILY scraped, but that's fine so long as it's not the car itself.

And as thetz99 pointed out, you can bend the lip if you go a bit crazy and slam into the dividers.