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Old 09-01-2014, 08:01 AM
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What's the lowest mm and the average mm from road level you can go and still safely get over speedbumps, driveways etc
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Old 09-01-2014, 03:28 PM
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How long is a piece of string.

Low as you dare really.
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Too low! lol I'm always catching it, think it's about 70-80mm off the floor (I did measure it but was a while ago), complete stop at any speed bump and creep over making sure I creep off too.

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I believe the road hump regs state a speed hump cannot be higher than 75mm and have a gradient not steeper than 1 in 8. However speed hump construction is not my field of expertise.
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Thanks guys, looks like trial and error then
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Mine is about 4-5" off floor n it's fine over bumps pal.
Old 12-01-2014, 12:25 AM
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Used to have an Espace front splitter. Stupidly low, was about a fag packet off the floor, scuffed on everything, but was like rubber, so didn't do any harm...
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i found that my 3 door at 4 inch off the ground went over speedbumps without even thinking about it
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300mm where i live, or the height of a fat rabbit or pheasent,lol
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My saff has a Laguna splitter on it and its not possible to get your foot under it, it's probably about 60-70mm from the ground. It does scrape on just about every speed hump and drive way but as its made of flexi rubber it doesn't harm it my old rs500 splitter on the other hand needed repairing every other week and ended up as just filler lol hence why I fitted the Laguna one
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My one is quite low but saying that it does clear speed bumps, the bumps that go all the way across the road I have to attack them at a 45 degree angle other wise the exhuast fouls them, the ones that are like little platform bus friendly ones that don't stretch across the road I have to go as close to the nearside as possible and crawl over them, bottom line I avoid roads that contain bumps like the plague. The other thing that kills fibre glass splitters is when the ground in uneven, I'm lucky as my drive way is flat




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