question for the people with steep driveways

[nissanguy13]

I just moved into my new house and realized that my driveway is steep/tall as hell. My hatch is dropped quite a bit so my exhaust scrapes on the curb, and my front bumper at the bottom of the driveway before I go in the garage. I know I can't do anything about the bumper scraping, but what do you guys do/use to get your car in your driveway so it doesn't scrape. I was thinking about sandbags or boards, but I'm pretty sure that the neighbors will complain if I leave anything in the gutter. So I need to figure out something small and portable so I can throw it in the garage after I go in/out of it. I know it's kind of a stupid question, but I am curious what other people use to fix the problem.

[240drifter1]

I have to go in at an angle, helps alittle but my front lip still scrapes.

[lflkajfj12123]

park parallel to your drive way

cut it all the way and back into your driveway

front bumper might scrape slightly but its inevitable on lowered cars man up

good luck

[hustlervibes]

Angle it in or pull out some boards to drive over. It's a pain in the ass with the boards though.

[Phlip]

Angle in the driveway, into the front yard, then back into the driveway, angle out the same way... Only the ENTRANCE to my driveway is steep enough for me to scrape.

[ThatGuy]

Angle, deal with scraping, or pay to have new concrete/asphalt poured.

[Phlip]

^^^ Not legal where I am, Barry, I live 50 feet from a manhole and across the street from the largest of my city's watershed... I cannot alter that end of my driveway without permission.

[ThatGuy]

Fair enough PHLIP. There are still the "angle" and "deal with scraping" choices though. :D

[Phlip]

Been doing it 17 months now

[krayzbigmac]

I just put a flat cardboard box in the area my exhaust scrapes. It just glides along the cardboard.

[flip3d]

Plywood or 2x4s.

[brndck]

this is my solution for my exhaust. if i'm not careful i still scrape the diffuser, but at least my exhaust is pretty protected. and i think it makes me look tough and will help me score with the ladies too. my front lip is urethane so i'm less concerned about that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0004-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0002-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0001-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0003-3.jpg

[DisEpyon]

^
have any more pics of the diffuser? if you dont mind showing.

[status:one]

I would change up the driveway... i love my car too much to change anything on the car :P

[ThatGuy]

brndck, you should mount those all the way around the tips. :rawk:

[Phlip]

I would change up the driveway... i love my car too much to change anything on the car :P
But what about...
^^^ Not legal where I am, Barry, I live 50 feet from a manhole and across the street from the largest of my city's watershed... I cannot alter that end of my driveway without permission.

Sheeeeeed, is YOUR money long enough to fight with the 3rd largest city in your state?
Fuck that, I will carry it as I have been, park on the street or park in my grandmother's driveway, only 4 houses away, lol.

[turbo_dreams]

this is my solution for my exhaust. if i'm not careful i still scrape the diffuser, but at least my exhaust is pretty protected. and i think it makes me look tough and will help me score with the ladies too. my front lip is urethane so i'm less concerned about that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0004-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0002-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0001-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/DSC_0003-3.jpg


i still don't get how exactly that help, does it grind the tips and push the exhuast up? what are they exactly?

^
have any more pics of the diffuser? if you dont mind showing.

X2

[BLKS13]

i still don't get how exactly that help, does it grind the tips and push the exhuast up? what are they exactly?



X2

You fail, did you read his post?

+reps for the spikes

[S14DB]

But what about...


Sheeeeeed, is YOUR money long enough to fight with the 3rd largest city in your state?
Fuck that, I will carry it as I have been, park on the street or park in my grandmother's driveway, only 4 houses away, lol.

Pour at night. What they don't know...

[TheTimanator]

haha, when I boght my house that was one of the things I told my realtor and I made sure that my driveway was level.

[nissanguy13]

I'm renting right now and the landlord is anal as hell, so pouring concrete won't work. (the landlord is so anal he actually made photo copies of the hangers we could and couldn't use in the walls for picture frames etc. and made us sign it lol)

Card board idea isn't bad. For some reason here they don't lower the curbs for each driveway, so it's a round curb about 5 inches high. I'll take pictures of it tomorrow. Most of you will probably get a good laugh out of it.

I'll try the angle idea next. I've been driving my truck instead of my car all week because I don't want to take it out of the garage and scrape the hell out of it. It hits around the cat and I've made two huge scrape marks in the concrete already.

[da1ndonly]

go in at as much of an angle as possible. Before i would have to basically go in just as parallel as the side walk until we got the driveway fixed now i just basically turn the car a bit. I dont think the city can tell you anything for fixing your own driveway unless your also gonna have the city part wich is right from the sidewalk and back done ... Good luck with that.

[Phlip]

Pour at night. What they don't know...

... they will find out when they come to collect my trash on Friday.
There is no way around them inspecting my shit, seriously.

[Andrew Bohan]

go borrow an accord or something and see if it scrapes. if it does, you might be able to get the city to redo the entrance to the driveway.

they probably wouldn't do it for a lowered 240, so you need find a "normal" car to try it with.

my neighborhood was built in the mid 50s when everyone had cars so high you could do an oil change without a jack, and most of the driveways are super steep. there are a few here and there that have been redone much shallower, and judging from the color of the pavement, within the last 10-15 years.

[hustlervibes]

I'm renting right now and the landlord is anal as hell, so pouring concrete won't work. (the landlord is so anal he actually made photo copies of the hangers we could and couldn't use in the walls for picture frames etc. and made us sign it lol)

Card board idea isn't bad. For some reason here they don't lower the curbs for each driveway, so it's a round curb about 5 inches high. I'll take pictures of it tomorrow. Most of you will probably get a good laugh out of it.

I'll try the angle idea next. I've been driving my truck instead of my car all week because I don't want to take it out of the garage and scrape the hell out of it. It hits around the cat and I've made two huge scrape marks in the concrete already.

There is a parking lot like that around here in Pasadena. I didn't know how people parked there until I saw cars just drive off the curb. It's ridiculous.

I don't know what to do in your situation except to build some ramps. Maybe ramps + cardboard? That cardboard idea sounds good, I just wonder if you would just end up tearing a hole through it?

[brndck]

brndck, you should mount those all the way around the tips. :rawk:
i thought about it, but there were already holes drilled for when you put the silencer in so i just used those. i'd way rather have the spikes get dragged around and thrashed than the exhaust tips.

i still don't get how exactly that help, does it grind the tips and push the exhuast up? what are they exactly?
X2

see above. they're just metal spikes. you can get em at stores where they sell punk rock studs and shit like that.

^
have any more pics of the diffuser? if you dont mind showing.

yes i have more pix, but they're in the pix thread. i'm not gonna clutter this thread up with pix of something unrelated. sry. so here's a link to a photobucket album with pix.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/brndck/my%20240sx%20pix/

[ayuaddict]

angle, stop, turn wheel as not to pop your bead possibly on the small step of the driveway and pull in slowly.

everywhere i go.

[CKAMC]

pull in reverse at an angle and keep the angle or make the angle wider after your rear wheels pass then straighten out once your fronts clear

I know it sounds like a lot of work but its worked for me with my cousin's impala when I couldnt find the controls to his air ride

[coww-cho!!!!!]

i have a driveway that goes up hill but before i get into the driveway theres a a 1.5ft wide speed bump before it and pretty much goes along the whole street so theres no way around. when i was backing out of driveway i would have to go at a mad angle and wait for the big scrape/drop right after i went over the speed bump so to resolve this i packed some dirt between the the bump and driveway to make a smooth ramp some people that have a crazy slope in driveway use mini skate ramps

[Firestorm]

just this once i am so glad that i live in germany... the curb to my driveway is about 1 1/2 inches and the driveway is completely level ;)

but given your situation i would get some 2x4s or something to get over the curb and into your garage.

[xplicit240]

i know how you feel man. my drive way entrance goes up first. then it decends. so when i go over the apex of the drive way scrape scrape scrape on my mid pipe. and if someone parks too close to the entrance of my drive way i cant even angle out. solution was raise the car a lil. got bigger tires. becuz just like PHLIP my town wont let me alter my drive way cuz of township laws. i would need to have the city come in and do it for me.

[JRas]

I go up an angle, one wheel ends up coming off the ground than it's pushed back onto the ground. That's when I do the signature one wheel burn-out :P

When I back out I go straight back and cut a hard angle at the finish and slowly go down the rounded curb.

gl, wish my driveway was flat

[axiomatik]

lol, i'm reminded of this post:

I posted this a while back, those other ones are chopped here are the originals

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/gambit25/raisedneighborhood1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/gambit25/raisedneighborhood2.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/gambit25/raisedneighborhood3.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/gambit25/raisedneighborhood4.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/gambit25/raisedneighborhood5.jpg

Not even a stock s-chassis will make it up that thing...

from this thread (http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=183684)

[sbc]

Hasn't anyone heard of curb ramps?

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/3143/ramp5smalljd1.jpg

The picture is shit so you cant really see but they do have a pipe through the middle so that water and whatnot can flow through it.

The only thing you have to worry about is people might steal them.

[JRas]

Hasn't anyone heard of curb ramps?

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/3143/ramp5smalljd1.jpg

The picture is shit so you cant really see but they do have a pipe through the middle so that water and whatnot can flow through it.

The only thing you have to worry about is people might steal them.

those are sick, more info please

[nissanguy13]

those are sick, more info please

thats a really good idea, I've never heard of those. I'll have to google it and see what I can find.

Damn I thought my driveway was bad, but that one steep ass one takes the cake. I think I would have to pass on that house just because of the driveway.

[whereda40at]

the best way would be to back your car in slowly and at an angle and man up

[da1ndonly]

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/3143/ramp5smalljd1.jpg


damn those would get stolen quick around where i live. Once we left a broom next to the door witch is like twelve feet in from the sidewalk and it got stolen pretty quick... imagine something like that. Good thing i got dogs now.

[SimpleSexy180]

lol, i break zipties everytime i go up my driveway.

rear bumper.

[axiomatik]

there's more info on those curb ramps in the thread I linked in my last post. IIRC, they can be abchored to the concrete to prevent theft.

[nissanguy13]

I haven't had a chance to take pics of the driveway. The curb thing is cool, except I rather scrape a little than pay $70 + shipping. Since the thing is like 4 ft long and 40lbs it's probably a little expensive to ship. I'll get one later after I get my house in order and traveling/moving bills paid off. Going in sideways is working for the most part. I scrape every once in a while but not bad. When I wrote this I didn't even think to try to go in sideways. It was one of those nights where I was trying to get the house unpacked and everything was going wrong and my brain was just too fried to try to think of alternatives.

Thanks for all the input guys.

[superduner]

HIDRAULIKS!!!!!!!!!! haha lmao. jk. yeah id definetly go with a few 2x4's small. and easyly thrown in the trunk of your car :)

[Matej]

Move to a more 240-friendly house haha.

[nissanguy13]

I would if I could trust me. I'm in an old mining town in the hills, and there isn't a big selection of nice houses.