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I'm looking for a few specific measurements that are not part of the vehicle specs. Modifying my driveway and trying to see if an S with the GTS/Sport front bumper will clear the incline. I have the wheelbase and length, but I need the following measurements if anyone could grab them for me.
Center of front wheel to the furthest point out on the sport front bumper (one GTS and sport design uses)
Center of rear wheel to the furthest point (I assume exhaust tips)
Ground to lowest rear point with PASM (not as critical as the above measurements.
The only real measurement you need is the angle degrees from the ground in front of your tires to the bottom front (or sides) of the front bumper. That will tell you how many degrees the driveway can be before scraping, and you can measure from the tires to the sides too to figure out what angle you need to drive up. Then just measure your actual driveway to see if it'll clear or not. Obviously a very angled approach will allow you to climb up a higher degree of incline but some people don't have that luxury of getting up their driveway sideways unless its multiple cars wide.
I have a lowered 4S with the SportDesign/GTS bumper. When they were redoing all of our driveway aprons this year (replacing drainage pipes that were laid, I had to get with the engineer of the township and request a non-standard angle for my drive. Neighbors were all redone at their same 10-11* and that was too steep for my car. They were able to redo it at the similar 3-4* I already had it at and it's perfect without worrying about approach angle. I'm sure 5-6* would be worry free too with stock height.