Ugh! Geez! Help! While driving my 6 day old TTR, I entered a steep driveway (not @excessive speed)
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Ugh! Geez! Help! While driving my 6 day old TTR, I entered a steep driveway (not @excessive speed)
when all of a sudden I heard a horrible crunching sound...Something about the angle of my approach made the car "bottom out" up front...
The good news is...there is no visible damage to my car...
The bad news is...that I know there are scratches under the front of the car..and well IT REALLY REALLY UPSET ME!!!!!
Folks, is this a common thing? Is there something that can be down about to avoid this? Should I be doing something to repair the underside scratches? Most are light..but in two spots, I got down to what appears to be black fiberglass or plastic...
Gosh, I cant tell you how upset this made me..Thanks for letting me vent..Any advice appreciated...And DARN I wasnt even being careless!!!!!!! I am so upset!!!!
The good news is...there is no visible damage to my car...
The bad news is...that I know there are scratches under the front of the car..and well IT REALLY REALLY UPSET ME!!!!!
Folks, is this a common thing? Is there something that can be down about to avoid this? Should I be doing something to repair the underside scratches? Most are light..but in two spots, I got down to what appears to be black fiberglass or plastic...
Gosh, I cant tell you how upset this made me..Thanks for letting me vent..Any advice appreciated...And DARN I wasnt even being careless!!!!!!! I am so upset!!!!
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Scratches under a car seem to be pretty common...
Basically, unless you never drive your TT its going to get scratched or chipped by rocks on the highway, bird poo, curbs, careless people in parking lots etc. I frieked about every minor tiny scratch for a long time after I got my TT until I realized I would go crazy if I worried about every little tiny thing. Now, I still don't take it to car washes and protect it the best I can, but since I drive it everyday there is no way to keep it "perfect". I wouldn't worry about the scratches under the car. Can you see them without putting your face on the pavement? No? Then neither can anyone else. No one even notices the touched up scratch on my side view mirror, and it still drives me crazy.
btw, I too have scratches under my car (in the front). My guess is that it was from a pothole.
btw, I too have scratches under my car (in the front). My guess is that it was from a pothole.
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My A4 would scrape going in and out of the driveway, but not the TTC...
It is a unnerving experience and I, too, found that a slanted approach is best. My 2000 A4 had the sport package (lowered suspension) and would scrape going in or out. Just bottom scrapes not visible from anywhere but under the car, but I've heard of hapless folks taking out their oil pan. No problems with the TT. Maybe it isn't as low, or just doesn't have as much of an overhang as the A4.
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Dave
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Re: Ugh! Geez! Help! While driving my 6 day old TTR, I entered a steep driveway (not @excessive spe
I've bottomed a number of times, and I'm sure my underside is scratched. You can't see it, and I really don't especially care. ****T happens, and now you have your first scratch out of the way.
In fact, here's a story along those lines. My detailer did the work on McDonalds' majority owner Joan Kroc's new Jaguar years ago. He said he was there when the salesman handed Kroc the keys to her shiny new Jag.
Kroc took the key, walked back to the rear quarter panel, and using the key, intentionally put a pretty good scratch in the paint. She then said, "There, now I won't have to worry about getting my first scratch!"
In fact, here's a story along those lines. My detailer did the work on McDonalds' majority owner Joan Kroc's new Jaguar years ago. He said he was there when the salesman handed Kroc the keys to her shiny new Jag.
Kroc took the key, walked back to the rear quarter panel, and using the key, intentionally put a pretty good scratch in the paint. She then said, "There, now I won't have to worry about getting my first scratch!"
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Wait till you grind a wheel on a curb or pull too far over a barking block with rebar sticking up
You wish you were back to this day when you merely bottomed out the front end. Only a flesh wound!!! (Hmmm..let's see if PGTT reads this...SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM)
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I've done...more than once I hate to admit. I got Novus Plastic Polish and polished
out the scratches as best I could. That whole front piece is plastic. It made me feel better to smooth them out a bit. But, as much as we want our babies to stay perfect, it is still a car and things will happen.