[California98Civic]

Originally Posted by pletby

Side skirts made contact with their first offensive speed bump last night. They seem to have flexed out of the way just fine. Funny thing is I went over that bump at an angle the first time and never made contact, but on the way out of the lot I took it head on and wow the noise. Thought I wrecked them.

Skirts will come off tomorrow after work as well as front air dam in preparation for Wednesday's autobody visit. I'll be driving a rental under auto loss of use insurance for hopefully less than a week. Maybe I can tape stuff to it while I have it!

I find that taking speedbumps on an angle changes the car's travel on the suspension so as to prevent scraping of my side skirts. If i have to go headon, radically reducing the speed accomplishes the same thing. The fact that you cleared the speedbump once indicates you have enough clearance. You just need to prevent bottoming-out, so to speak.

You could also identify where the scraping is happening by looking at them, and trim just in that area.