Front lower part of FTO (Scratches)

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Front lower part of FTO (Scratches)

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Known fact: The front lower part of FTO is prone to scratching

Is there ways to improve/avoid those scratches(apart from removing the front guard :D )?

I was thinking of cutting out the wire mesh,bend it and glue it on to the front lower section. Any suggestions/ingenious ideas?

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Re: Front lower part of FTO (Scratches)

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godspeedcapri wrote:Known fact: The front lower part of FTO is prone to scratching

are you talking about underneath the front bar when parking too close to a curb or concrete parking space divider? :?

here's a tip ---> try parking a little further away ;)


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Yeah under my front bar is really bad with scratches from before I bought it, I think from not taking gutters at the right angle. One of these days I'll sand it back and re paint it or use a trick I've seen some lowered bodykitted cars use. They blend some metal (tin or alloy sheet cut to the right size) to the underside of the front bar and side skirts with fibre-glass. You can't see it because it is underneath but it stops the scratches on the bodykit. Maybe kevlar or something might be just as good as well, I'm still to look into it.
Though I've only sctrached it myself once since I've had the car at a really nasty driveway that I couldn't get any angle on, I don't use that driveway anymore suffice to say.
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Post by godspeedcapri »

Yeah. Underneath the Front bar.

Metal sheet or Black Wire mesh so far seems to be a good idea.
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Miss Hoover, I glued my head to my shoulder :roll:
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