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Old 09-08-2019, 10:58 AM
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Done this thousands of times at this point and wanted to see what it looked like as the neighbors always seem impressed.

BTW - The sound you hear in the beginning is the front lip (the black plastic, not the facia) scraping. That's just a fact of life without FAL.

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I'm great at tractor tipping...
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You don't Need to know where you're "going", You just need to know where you've 'been"!!!


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Gotta say, I was a little disappointed in the slowdown entering the carport. If you had maintained the same speed all the way in, now that would be impressive.
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Originally Posted by Al.Fresco
Gotta say, I was a little disappointed in the slowdown entering the carport. If you had maintained the same speed all the way in, now that would be impressive.
Sometimes I get that right
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Nice, I love backing up since I may be better at it than going forward! My wife on the other hand cannot back up well if her life depended on it. We were eating out not long ago and from our window seat I saw a woman do a high speed back into a spot that was so impressive I stepped outside and gave her a thumbs-up.
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Originally Posted by Bob Z.
We were eating out not long ago and from our window seat I saw a woman do a high speed back into a spot that was so impressive I stepped outside and gave her a thumbs-up.
That was Bruce Jenner... er...a....Caitlyn
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Originally Posted by Bob Z.
Nice, I love backing up since I may be better at it than going forward! My wife on the other hand cannot back up well if her life depended on it. We were eating out not long ago and from our window seat I saw a woman do a high speed back into a spot that was so impressive I stepped outside and gave her a thumbs-up.
My wife backs down our driveway like a boss (she doesn't like backing up it). She's even backed down service trucks when guys sheepishly give up on trying to get down themselves.
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Originally Posted by Jay-S
Done this thousands of times at this point and wanted to see what it looked like as the neighbors always seem impressed.

BTW - The sound you hear in the beginning is the front lip (the black plastic, not the facia) scraping. That's just a fact of life without FAL.

Backing Up
Very impressive and the car looks great! These cars look amazing from every angle! 👌
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Now show us how you exit the driveway. I've got a similar pitch to an underground garage that I'm afraid to take b/c it'll scrape something for sure.
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Originally Posted by chowdah
Now show us how you exit the driveway. I've got a similar pitch to an underground garage that I'm afraid to take b/c it'll scrape something for sure.
I've stopped trying to do anything special although slower is better. It just scrapes at the bottom and sounds horrible. People walking past wince. Luckily it's just that black plastic piece underneath and not anything painted. For about the first year, there are shredded plastic strings hanging down from that thing. I think it looks hilarious but I'm sure some people are horrified.
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You would go even slower if you were me since my front spoiler lip is painted, which I think looks much better but it takes a lot of care to not "F" it up.


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