Today's DIY Project

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2cam16

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'06 5, '04 WRB WRX

• Sep 24, 2006

• #1

So the front of our 5 seems to hit a few driveways (even more than our Odyssey did but that had H&R springs) therefore we have some scuffs on the front-end of a 2 month old car.
Idea hits me this morning. I had some left over garage door rubber trim. Test fitted it over the said area under the bumper and it was a good fit. Got some heavy duty 3M mounting tape and some Loctite adhesive and voila ! :
Front End View

Left Side

Left Side at an Agle

Right Underside

Took all of 30 mins. Let's see how it holds up. If it does, GREAT! If not, back to the drawing board.

 

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CitizenPro

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2017 Shelby GT350

• Sep 24, 2006

• #2

Depending on how well the adhesive is, id say it'll scrap completely off.......and why 3 threads?

 

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2cam16

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'06 5, '04 WRB WRX

• Sep 26, 2006

• #3

CitizenPro said:

Depending on how well the adhesive is, id say it'll scrape completely off.......and why 3 threads?

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Oooppsss! So it posted 3 threads ? My bad. Looks like the site was running slow yesterday and I pressed submit a few times. (ughdance)

 

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monsta

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06 5 Touring, 07 Sport

• Sep 26, 2006

• #4

Great idea! Wished I woulda known about it before I scraped the heck out of that lower edge! (bang) Guess I can still do it and it will hide my mishap. Great post!

 

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ladygrey

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2006 Mazda5 Touring MT, Carbon Grey

• Sep 26, 2006

• #5

My edge is trashed. My husband can not remember to not pull up so far. Last week he scraped a curb so bad it pulled my fog light out of place (thankfully it was less than $50 to fix).

I figure he'd probably just scrape this off too.

 

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monsta

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06 5 Touring, 07 Sport

• Sep 28, 2006

• #6

I'll never understand why people block out their plate number when posting pics of thier cars in the internet...don't people see it when you're driving anyway?

 

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mazdaFIVEmike

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2006 Mazda 5 GT 5spd

• Sep 29, 2006

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monsta said:

I'll never understand why people block out their plate number when posting pics of thier cars in the internet...don't people see it when you're driving anyway?

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Good Point! Not sure I have an answer - at least not one that makes sense.

 

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Kid Red

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Mazda 5

• Sep 29, 2006

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monsta said:

I'll never understand why people block out their plate number when posting pics of thier cars in the internet...don't people see it when you're driving anyway?

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Hundreds of people on the internet don't see you driving away, because they are on the internet sitting behind a computer in another town, city, state or even country. However, they could easily find out where you live with the license plate number.

 

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InFeXIoN

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2011 Mazdaspeed 3

• Sep 29, 2006

• #9

and possibly use it for other reasons.

 

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monsta

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06 5 Touring, 07 Sport

• Sep 30, 2006

• #10

Like?
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I could find out where someone lives with thier IP address...probably...I think...

Maybe it's just me. I never saw the harm. Anybody can come over my house if they want! Now if they aren't freindly but if they have a German Shepard & a Pit Bull to contend with. If they get past them my cat is a real asshole. (yes) Meeeeeeeeeeeeeow! Pthhhhhht!

 

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tviera

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07 CX-9 Goodness

• Sep 30, 2006

• #11

They could track you down and drive railroad spike through your shoulders, pinning you to the wall. Then they could do thing, horrible things, to your family.

 

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Prodigy

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'02 protege LX, (3, yes 3) '99 protege ES', '90 Miata, '89 240sx

• Sep 30, 2006

• #12

Or... someone in some other place sees your car, your mods, etc...
They'll simply look up the plate # + jack the car.

 

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monsta

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06 5 Touring, 07 Sport

• Sep 30, 2006

• #13

Where can you go to search someone's plate # and get their address??

I have an anti-railroad spike jacket...actually everyone in my family has one. (evil)

 

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Prodigy

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'02 protege LX, (3, yes 3) '99 protege ES', '90 Miata, '89 240sx

• Sep 30, 2006

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monsta said:

Where can you go to search someone's plate # and get their address??

I have an anti-railroad spike jacket...actually everyone in my family has one. (evil)

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By going to anyone who knows anyone that works in the insurance and/or police department industry + doesn't care about losing their job.

It's easy as hell to for someone to trace the info so just don't promote your plates all over the place.