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can you enter the driveway on the angle? if not home depot is the only answer you can buy probably plastic hard plastic sheets, plywood? maybe...
 
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only thing that will help ur front end brother is a 996 C4S front lip. The only thing that helps my rear end is going up and down my drive at a 45 degree angle
 
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Look into Bridjit

I just moved into a new house with a gutter curb into the driveway on which my Audi rubs and my Porsche would certainly rub if I tried it. I just ordered a Bridjit curb ramp (http://www.bridjit.com/) and am waiting to get it. Kind of spendy but it seems to be a good solution.
 
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Our local council will be fixing our driveway outside and inside our property I have placed two 1220 x 1220 x 6mm tread plates at the entrance of my garage.
So it looks like I can now lower my car when I get my coil overs.



 

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Our local council will be fixing our driveway outside and inside our property I have placed two 1220 x 1220 x 6mm tread plates at the entrance of my garage.
So it looks like I can now lower my car when I get my coil overs.
good on ya jim! the wood and plates look like something i'd have jerry rigged lol.

"your local council" is FIXING your driveway curb area!? what are ya some kind of kommissar or something?

hell, all they'll do out here is sweep for boulders daily ( doesn't seem to help me though lol
 
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Originally Posted by '02996ttx50
good on ya jim! the wood and plates look like something i'd have jerry rigged lol.

"your local council" is FIXING your driveway curb area!? what are ya some kind of kommissar or something?

hell, all they'll do out here is sweep for boulders daily ( doesn't seem to help me though lol
Yep jerry rigged by the expert...lol... the timber planks where an initial attempt before the tread plates, I thought I'd leave them there for extra support but hey I did screw them together.

Council gets way too much money if you ask me but even I was surprised when they said they'd sort it out for me... no questions asked.
As a matter of fact they sent some out the very next day to map it out, how good is that.
 
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incredible!! here it would be in committee for years and require 42 permits.
 
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incredible!! here it would be in committee for years and require 42 permits.
I'm guessing there must be an election not too far away, they're usually very helpful around election times and then it all changes.
 
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I'm guessing there must be an election not too far away, they're usually very helpful around election times and then it all changes.
well, i can say here in cali we have some kind of pseudo-communofascistic amalgam that really doesn't see fixing other peoples driveways as politically expedient lol.

oh, but there will be a tax but they DO keep the roads in shape as this is all federally controlled land in spite of there obviously being local politicos. the feds dont "fix" your driveway i guess is my point

soon to come! a tax per mile for driving in addition to the gas tax. i promise. watch. testing in oregon first

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...eage/27676973/

next up! cars that DON'T let YOU drive! but i digress, ...from your soon to be improved egress LOL
 
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I have a 2x4 at the edge of my garage entrance as there's a lip, I have one at th edge of the speed bump my lift has too. Last night pulling in I gave it a touch too much gas getting the rear wheels over the garage lip and the front over the speed bump.... I felt a little wiggle and heard an odd noise as the car hopped into the garage.... I got out to find I'd shot about 15ft by 3ft worth of "racedeck" out into my driveway! I had to pull the car back out and remove a ton of crap to clear the area well enough to reinstall the decking. Hot as hell too, man I was pissed! I may have to rig the entrance a little better to make entrance a little smoother. Oh, HATE Racedeck and will never ever have it again, epoxy all the way!
 
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speed bumps are anathema to me. hate them passionately.
 
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Originally Posted by '02996ttx50
well, i can say here in cali we have some kind of pseudo-communofascistic amalgam that really doesn't see fixing other peoples driveways as politically expedient lol.

oh, but there will be a tax but they DO keep the roads in shape as this is all federally controlled land in spite of there obviously being local politicos. the feds dont "fix" your driveway i guess is my point

soon to come! a tax per mile for driving in addition to the gas tax. i promise. watch. testing in oregon first

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...eage/27676973/

next up! cars that DON'T let YOU drive! but i digress, ...from your soon to be improved egress LOL
I'm still quite surprised them doing it, if you dont ask you dont get.
Mileage tax, times are changing very quickly unfortunately......I'm sure this change will be very beneficial to the politicos.
 
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still cant believe you asked and *they*? obliged. good for you man.
 


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