Author Topic: You Know Your Low When..... (Read 2365 times)

kirin · « **on:** February 16, 2006, 09:52:29 PM »

You can't get your beetle on your buddies four post rotary hoist due to bottoming out your floor pan!

Any other low stories or incidents?

Chris · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:02:06 PM »

this is my best or worst?!

you know your low when you leave your entire exhaust system from the header back in the lot of a gas station.

kirin · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:07:37 PM »

Thats pretty good. I've left some good marks or chalk from leaving the mascot industrial center on 76th!

reefreshd_jive · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:12:38 PM »

1. Chris (1976bus) can tell you about the trip down to everett when everytime i changed lanes my beam would take out all the road reflectors. Also about the sparks that came from every dip, and bridge deck!

2. James Buchan, and Rustybus I scrape on both of there driveways.

3. Hitting the dyno at aircare.

4. Almost getting stuck coming off the ferries from horseshoe bay.

5. Having the exhaust some off from the j-tubes when going over certain large speed bumps

6. Not being able to clear a dead possum or something, leaving fur and innerds on the adjuster bolt! not to mention there was a cop behind me at that time! then when at the show entering the non adjustable lowest car, and won. sorry Johnny Main! he came in a close second.

7. Blowing a 135 tire on King George Hwy, and have the passenger front end grinding on the road

the list goes on! cant wait for my 63 to be done, the front end will sit lower, and with a tranny raise can get the back right down there!

Chris · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:21:21 PM »

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this is my best or worst?!

you know your low when you leave your entire exhaust system from the header back in the lot of a gas station.

by the way this happened in my old old honda years and years ago

Billyisgr8 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:32:46 PM »

I was stopped by the police going down the freeway when I was 18, I had made some sparks on a bump. I had to take my truck off the road because the frame was lower than the height of the rims from pavement . My truck after the vehicle inspection had to have 3\" of lift put back into it to make it legal. It was still low after being legal though. I was much more happy driving it after the raise since I got more suspension travel back, and I didn't have to worry about bottoming out driving down 16th ave to work. It is amazing I remember at the time knowing where every bump and hole was in the road to work all the way to Richmond from Abbotsford.

When the truck was low I coudn't get into the driveway at my girlfriends house. The curb was a pathetic little bump up, Those where the days... canopy lid flipped up, a 18\" 15\" and a 12\" sub in the back listening to boom music cruizing the strip with my football budies.

Jeeze I was married with 1 on the way within 2 years, and then real life started, ...reality check ... traded the truck in for a 4 door automatic K-car.

Enjoy this while you can Kirin.

Kevin

ehos · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:59:11 PM »

My split can't get over any speed bumps.
I had to break out the tools and raise it up. (No exhaust tips on it either...)

HeliMike · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2006, 12:10:26 AM »

low is when you peel your floorboard open driving off the albion ferry and having your battery short out on the seat crossbar - followed by a bunch of little \"mushroom clouds\" that erupt under your dash as you short every circuit in your crappy-ass car.

low is not being able to fit your foot under the stock pee-shooters (I HAVE PIC'S - TRUST ME).

low is clipping road-markers off with the beam adjuster bolts. (james can agree with this one)

Ever tried going down hwy 10 eastbound in the right lane @ 176? If you feel the front of your car \"lift\" all of a sudden then you can say you're low. Same goes for eastbound right-lane over 186 - suicide in a lowered VW.

Low is burning off the sidewalls on a set of 205/60's on your crappy swingaxle beetle in a few days. Thanks Kal-tire Cloverdale for fixin' me up.

Should I go on?

thrasherbill · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2006, 12:36:32 AM »

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low is clipping road-markers off with the beam adjuster bolts. (james can agree with this one)

To any of you who ride low enough to scrape reflectors off the high way I say

This is what happens when you are the car behind some one riding low enough to scrape off reflectors:

ThrasheR

Stevie · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2006, 09:29:11 AM »

haha i have some good ones

i got high centered at Beamriders and had to get out and push my car off the bump..

driving to the GCVWS last year goin over the bridge and bending my lower adjuster bolt

picked up a white plastic shopping bag that was laying almost flat on the road and transported it from abbotsford to cultis lake and back..

and currently i need 5' 2x4's to get into my garage as ramps for a 1\" incline..

it is great to be low but once i get my 20's the smallest tire i can get is a 225/30R20 with a total height of 25.6\" so they may rub on the top of my fenders

so i got to be careful

66beetle · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2006, 10:49:33 AM »

I love pushin' pop cans around parking lots.

OUTKAST · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2006, 04:18:23 PM »

I did get stuck on the ferries with my 67 beetle ,went on high tide couldn,t get of low tide high centered took 2 workers to lift back end up :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

el_flechador · « **Reply #12 on:** February 17, 2006, 11:02:45 PM »

Ok i got the winner
my 72 came to a grinding on the camber of a road my buddy lived in , the adjuster bolt somehow got stuck into the whole of aman hole cover in the road and the car wouldnt move at all foewards or backwards, even when 4 of us tried levering the car up and then jacking it up it was still stuck , in the end i had to give my buddy little sean 30 quid to fix it,,for his 30 quid he dressed in garbage bags descended another man hole down into the sewer and crawled a fair distance until he came up to where my car was stuck and bashed the bolt out from below with a sledge hammer. needless to say he emerged a short while later covered in sh*T complaining he had got bitten by a rat.... :ph34r: respect to the little man i say.

Russ · « **Reply #13 on:** February 17, 2006, 11:12:57 PM »

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Ok i got the winner
my 72 came to a grinding on the camber of a road my buddy lived in , the adjuster bolt somehow got stuck into the whole of aman hole cover in the road and the car wouldnt move at all foewards or backwards, even when 4 of us tried levering the car up and then jacking it up it was still stuck , in the end i had to give my buddy little sean 30 quid to fix it,,for his 30 quid he dressed in garbage bags descended another man hole down into the sewer and crawled a fair distance until he came up to where my car was stuck and bashed the bolt out from below with a sledge hammer. needless to say he emerged a short while later covered in sh*T complaining he had got bitten by a rat.... :ph34r: respect to the little man i say.

i don't know what a quids worth but it damn well ain't enough

Bruce · « **Reply #14 on:** February 17, 2006, 11:42:30 PM »

I straddled a beer can on a freeway on ramp in Phoenix and pushed it up to speed for half a mile. Pulled over then backed up to see that can. That was in the days before dropped spindles. All beam with 195/50/15 tires.

A couple of years ago in Mexico, I had so much weight in the front that it brought the car down so far that the tie rod got caught up with the combustion air intake tube of the Eberspacher gas heater. Good thing I was on the side of the road and not moving since the wheel was stuck at full lock.

kirin · « **Reply #15 on:** February 18, 2006, 10:42:28 AM »

New one.
You scrape your ANSA when you launch your car.

Author Topic: You Know Your Low When..... (Read 2365 times)

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