hotrain69 Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 so annoying, usually so careful but today for reason am just having a bad day. driving to pub for lunch, saw a speed bump which looked relatively high but thought can do it slowly. went up slowly and front bumper scrape noise was incredibly painful but worse was to follow when the zed clunked on the bump. either the underside of the car or the tail bit of the exhaust. if it's the underside i'm really worried about it denting something like the exhaust pipes!!!!! haven't heard anything at the moment so hoping it's ok. car is due a service in may so will ask them to check things out. is anything likely to have been damaged? Quote
Pimm Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 I have scraped mine twice, going very slowly over speed bumps. I would not worry yourself to much. As long as nothing has fell off though then happy days Quote
Chris`I Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Usual clunks are the flexi-joints on the y-pipe or the resonator on the exhaust. My guess would be flexipipe. Ask Adrian about that One knock should be fine though, I've done it a few times myself. Quote
martinmac Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 To be honest its a noise I have got used to. I scrape the underside quite often. To date I have been pretty lucky apart from smashing a cat whilst hooning around Scotland. Quote
Adriank Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 I used to scrape my Y pipe 1-3 times a day, wore through the braiding and snapped the pipes in the end! Are you going to have the old Nismo pipe chris? Quote
hotrain69 Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 that's making me feel alot better. usually so careful so this first time was definitely a shock to me. but seems like since there's no noise now and no bits falling off i'll be ok. was going to look on the bright side by the fact that it could've been perfect excuse to get new exhaust Quote
sl114 Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 I have a problem with speed bumps, surly they should be designed so that you can go over them at the speed limit for that road...for example a 30mph road with speed bumps should allow you to go 30mph over them safely and comfortably and not 10mph Quote
Chris`I Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Are you going to have the old Nismo pipe chris? Gonna see what its like. Hopefully it can be fixed cheaply Need to ring Tom tonight to arrange tyres etc. Quote
Ian Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 To be honest its a noise I have got used to. I scrape the underside quite often. To date I have been pretty lucky apart from smashing a cat whilst hooning around Scotland. +1 Ive currently got a majorly scraped underside lip, my undertray is hanging off, my y-pipe has a huge dent in it, the gasket between the mid pipe & back box is blowing a bit & my back box hits most speed bumps Quote
dcash5 Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 To be honest its a noise I have got used to. I scrape the underside quite often. To date I have been pretty lucky apart from smashing a cat whilst hooning around Scotland. I hope a catalytic convertor and not the animal otherwise that sounds very bruital! Quote
BulletMagnet Posted April 17, 2009 Posted April 17, 2009 To be honest its a noise I have got used to. I scrape the underside quite often. To date I have been pretty lucky apart from smashing a cat whilst hooning around Scotland. I hope a catalytic convertor and not the animal otherwise that sounds very bruital! My mate caught a cat in mid jump and it was hanging onto the front grill of his car, when he stopped, it jumped off and ran away. Quote
MattMe Posted April 17, 2009 Posted April 17, 2009 I have a problem with speed bumps, surly they should be designed so that you can go over them at the speed limit for that road...for example a 30mph road with speed bumps should allow you to go 30mph over them safely and comfortably and not 10mph Totally agree. Only problem being if you're in a big repmobile you'll not notice speed bumps at 40mph (so I've been told!) an in the 350z it doesn't really matter what speed you're doing it's going to hurt. The best thing they could do would be makes the bumps so they are flush with the road and have them raise up if a car is going over 30... Sounds expensive but I think we all pay enough tax to cover a few million of them. Quote
jpaero Posted April 17, 2009 Posted April 17, 2009 speed bumps are "suppose" to be only put there to make you slow down to the speed limit. They say they are made so you can go over them at the speed limit. The legal limit for a speed bump is 10cm (3inches), any above this is illegal. I can tell you that where i live and up the town there isn't one that is less than or meets the 10cm height, all above and by a good bit. I cant even drive around the town, have to park outside the town and walk in. Nightmare! Quote
jerry3167 Posted April 17, 2009 Posted April 17, 2009 Sounds like you need a Nissan Qashqai, or a quad bike Quote
stuuts Posted April 18, 2009 Posted April 18, 2009 the speedbumps are massive up here in scotland, and in so many awkward places, they should be dug up. my girlfrend was driving my skyline to lunch, with me in the passanger seat, and attempted a speedbump and her normal pace in for her car (fiat punto) and snapped my bumper in half. gutted Quote
sunset350z Posted April 18, 2009 Posted April 18, 2009 No wonder there's been an increase in sales for large 4x4's over the years I say get rid of all speed bumps and replace with rumble strips, or better signs that make you think before breaking the speed limit!!! Quote
Stew Posted April 18, 2009 Posted April 18, 2009 When I lived in Siberia they often had mega smashed up cars (no pics but the actual cars) next to warnings about speed. That was a good deterant. Quote
Cara Posted April 18, 2009 Posted April 18, 2009 I know how you feel, but it sounds like you should be okay. We have speed bumps in the streets around us, and they're a pain in the ar$e. They are the twin hump type ones, and there are always parked cars on one side of the street making it impossible to go through the middle of them, and straddling one causes a fair amount of scraping of the exhaust. So we have to do a kinda half-on-half-off swerve manouevre at about 2mph Quote
Indyzed Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 To be honest its a noise I have got used to. I scrape the underside quite often. To date I have been pretty lucky apart from smashing a cat whilst hooning around Scotland. I hope a catalytic convertor and not the animal otherwise that sounds very bruital! My mate caught a cat in mid jump and it was hanging onto the front grill of his car, when he stopped, it jumped off and ran away. If I don't slowly back down my driveway every morning I scrape the front lip of my Zed. Once in a while I'll be in a hurry and remember too late. That scraping/crunching sound is awful. My neighbor has the same issue but his cars are rubbish. I think he tries to rip his front clip off. Quote
Komier Posted April 20, 2009 Posted April 20, 2009 I have taken the paint off the bottom of my front bumper pulling into tesco petrol station this weekend. It's a horrible noise, i nearly shat meself. That combined with the stone chips is starting to really bug me. My front bumper looks like it has some weird disease =( Quote
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