speed ramps are a pain but to be honsest the big table top ones arent that bad and the pillow ones if you position yourself in between the two arent too bad and nearly pulling the bumper off or dragging the subframe,box sections of the chassis,exhaust etc doesn't really bother me as I can deal with that as I'm used to the sound it's the ones that are pretty high but are only about 12" wide and them rubber ones that are the same cos as you drop over them they really grip the chassis and nearly end up beached and when it nearly does you look a bit silly in a busy car park more or less doing a burnout to drag yourself off it lol

Wierd, My mk1 rs on standard doesn't catch anywhere, then again I've always been aware of the low sump, so don't brake anywhere near humps.

Belive me I do a lot of speed humps in a weeks work !!

Front bumper on the other hand ........ Takes a pasting regularly, hence no splitter for me !!

Its not my sump i have problems with its my lower brace and subframe that scrap on speed bumps

Ditto. My vRS is standard ride height (for a vRS). Took my lower brace off recently ( as grounding on speed humps) and have bent the subframe where the o/s bolt holds the brace

Edited 16 July, 201213 yr by goonybird

There are laws and regs about the size and gradients of speed humps. IIRC, one council was reported to have been making illegal ones for years, and had to replace them all.

If your car has been damaged by an illegal speed hump, you have a good case for restitution.

Careful with mudflaps and speed bumps.

Mine always used to catch on the rubber strip speed bumps, and began to distort the wing flanges due to the vertical impacts.

So before the mudflaps did any more damage I removed them all, and now I never scrape on anything.

Although I did scuff the outer corner of the front bumper the other day, much to my rage! The front overhang is insane on the Mk1 RS! Not a good offroad vehicle....

i second a 5-10mm lowering with a 10 to 15% increase in stiffness. anything else means pinch marks everytime you approach them speed bumps. opinions welcome on how to achieve this.

no splitter here either.

confirmation that these speed calming measures must comply with regulation

I can only go over speed bumps by driving over both sides of road to attack both in one go, else i would ground out, which i did dropping someone off and i could not be bothered to detour. Multi story car parks is occasionally used as last resort and made a little easier now splitter removed. With that on i had no chance..

the full length speed bump are not too bad actually but still need taking slow as the rebound drop with catch you out.

Still much prefer the car lowered than STD height and i say still worth the hassle

Mines normal height but with 5 people aboard and luggage the tow bar sometimes bangs the bumps on the way down if I'm going fast, sacred the life out of me when I first did it! lol

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