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Title: lowered car failing
Post by: search on 30 October 2012, 13:23

hey can someone advise me please, my car is as low as i can get it on coilovers but after getting stuck on a speedbump i seem to have bent a metal bar that goes from drivers side to passenger side where the mid silencer is, can i mallet this back in to place? or is it structural damage?

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: search on 30 October 2012, 13:41

Photo if it help!! see the middle part hanging down it didn't used to be that low used to tuck up towards the bottom of the car.... (http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k34/xsjado-man/14370_10151275987675491_683604837_n.jpg)

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: Wayne on 30 October 2012, 13:44

Just straighten as required.

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: Len on 30 October 2012, 14:57

On my car that particular plate was discarded years ago!

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: search on 30 October 2012, 15:47

thanks guys, tried to bend it back no luck, so ill take it off when I can.

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: kempie on 30 October 2012, 21:05

That's little c*nt nugget drove me insane
Bin the fu ker

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: CJA321 on 30 October 2012, 21:10

Yeah mine got the bin too  :grin:

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: murraymint on 30 October 2012, 21:14

That bracket thing saved my life when my exhaust desired to split in half half way to Wales. So mine stays

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: tweed on 30 October 2012, 21:16

I do regular checks on my cars  :rolleyes:


Mine was off first time it got jacked

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: VW BUSH on 30 October 2012, 22:04

Quote from: murraymint on 30 October 2012, 21:14

That bracket thing saved my life when my exhaust desired to split in half half way to Wales. So mine stays

This.

The bar stops your exhaust from flipping the car if it breaks.....

Mine stays too

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 30 October 2012, 22:51

Yep,  i don't really fancy my exhaust spearing the road either to be honest.  It stays where VW decided to put it.

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: Bellend on 30 October 2012, 23:19

Got a modified bracket in my old MK3. New flat bar in there and barely hangs down at all.

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: Wayne on 31 October 2012, 00:02

Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 30 October 2012, 22:51

Yep,  i don't really fancy my exhaust spearing the road either to be honest.  It stays where VW decided to put it.

Spot on, it is fitted for a reason :smiley:

Title: Re: lowered car failing
Post by: search on 31 October 2012, 14:56

well mine isn't very safe even hitting cat eyes i found out over taking someone. the car just bounced. maybe i should reverse up a speed bump put it back in place LOL.