How LOW is it?

Gazi · 01-09-2011, 08:42 AM

So I am due for my Msport E92 soon... my gf's drive is a slope up off the pavement. Im a little concern with touching the front when I go visit. How low is the front?

What is the best way to approach it? Slow of course... but would it help at an angle or straight up? Go slow and get someone to look out for me for the first time?

hmi1750 · 01-09-2011, 09:23 AM

It all depends on the angles really. I think you need 13 degrees and you will scrape! Go at an angle might help. Park on the street?

Vid · 01-09-2011, 09:45 AM

Change your girlfriend if it is troublesome?

Always best to get someone to watch you first time I would advise. Previous cars I've had I've had have been lowered, and I've had to get people to watch my front in certain places to avoid tears.

Hope it works out.

doughboy · 01-09-2011, 10:25 AM

If the drive has been built to correct specs then as your car is UK type approved it should be fine.

Part of the type approval for the UK is things like minimum height and ramp angles etc, this enables speed bumps and car park ramps etc to be built without trashing eveyones cars!!

Thats why no standard car will catch a correctly built speed bump for example.

zltm089 · 01-09-2011, 10:27 AM

I always approach any speed bump or slope at a 45 degree angle....

ed335d · 01-09-2011, 10:58 AM

Back up?

toxicnerve · 01-09-2011, 12:12 PM

The underside of my front bumper has taken a couple of scrapes when I've misjudged and incline on the odd driveway. I only did it twice, now I take it real slow or (as previously mentioned) at an angle.

zltm089 · 01-09-2011, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ed335d

Back up?

sideways! ;-)

kaishang · 01-09-2011, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ed335d

Back up?

Does she do that?

Gazi · 01-09-2011, 03:22 PM

What is the theory of going up it side ways/at an angle?

willhollin · 01-09-2011, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Gazi

What is the theory of going up it side ways/at an angle?

I don't think you can get it all in if you go at it from an angle.

Sandwich_Dan · 01-09-2011, 07:11 PM

It may be low but the front overhang is tiny compared to most cars so it's surprising what you can get away with. The biggest concern is parking spaces that are nose onto the kerb, that's something you don't want to misjudge.

m1bjr · 01-10-2011, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Sandwich_Dan

It may be low but the front overhang is tiny compared to most .

IKWYM.

You are lucky, my wife has put on a few pounds over Xmas.

MEGA · 01-11-2011, 04:42 AM

LOL at the tangential replies in this thread...

So, I've scraped the front of mine to crap! Getting her repaired and resprayed in a few months!

Em135eye · 01-11-2011, 06:17 AM

Too low for my driveway! The E90 M Sport loan car I had scraped the bottom pretty badly. A Sainsburys truck also got wedged at the bottom - took three hours to get it free!

SE just makes it but it's still pretty close - I wince every time I turn up our driveway - extremely hard left onto a 1 in 3 hill. The Landy needs a shuffle to make it.

acerboo · 01-11-2011, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Gazi

So I am due for my Msport E92 soon... my gf's drive is a slope up off the pavement. Im a little concern with touching the front when I go visit. How low is the front?

What is the best way to approach it? Slow of course... but would it help at an angle or straight up? Go slow and get someone to look out for me for the first time?

are you asking about sex or parking the car?

Gazi · 01-12-2011, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by acerboo

are you asking about sex or parking the car?

haha... I was thinking someone might say that... no problem on the sex part just parking the car!

I checked it out today coming down from the drive head first.. v slow in my polo sport...clearance is roughly 2 inches! dont think the msport will have much of a chance to clear it!

keve92335d · 01-12-2011, 08:33 AM

as a couple of people have said, I would recommend going in backwards, if I have to park in a space with a curb or on a steep drive I always go backwards first, much safer than damaging the front end

Gazi · 01-12-2011, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by kevuwk

as a couple of people have said, I would recommend going in backwards, if I have to park in a space with a curb or on a steep drive I always go backwards first, much safer than damaging the front end

how is that different to going up head first? as i need to come down and the front will be faced with the same angle.

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doughboy Major General 1545 Rep 8,970 Posts Drives: 2018 M2 Comp 6MT Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: UK iTrader: (2)	If the drive has been built to correct specs then as your car is UK type approved it should be fine. Part of the type approval for the UK is things like minimum height and ramp angles etc, this enables speed bumps and car park ramps etc to be built without trashing eveyones cars!! Thats why no standard car will catch a correctly built speed bump for example.
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toxicnerve Colonel 97 Rep 2,834 Posts Drives: E92 335d M-Sport Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: UK iTrader: (2)	The underside of my front bumper has taken a couple of scrapes when I've misjudged and incline on the odd driveway. I only did it twice, now I take it real slow or (as previously mentioned) at an angle.
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Sandwich_Dan Enlisted Member 2 Rep 42 Posts Drives: Ex-E92 335i Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: London iTrader: (0)	It may be low but the front overhang is tiny compared to most cars so it's surprising what you can get away with. The biggest concern is parking spaces that are nose onto the kerb, that's something you don't want to misjudge.
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keve92335d New Member 1 Rep 27 Posts Drives: 335d e92 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: lancashire iTrader: (0)	as a couple of people have said, I would recommend going in backwards, if I have to park in a space with a curb or on a steep drive I always go backwards first, much safer than damaging the front end
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