Bottomed out over speed bump

[USAFPILOT]

So I go to Ellington JRB with he viper for the first time in over 3 months, and upon exiting for lunch, I notice the security forces installed one of those ridiculous speed bumps that will pop your tires if you go backwards over it, and its blocking the only exit. Sheesh...so I go over it slow as I could but apparently with enough speed that the suspension compressed and I felt the car bottom out on the bump...hating myself a little, I continued on and park in an adjacent lot and check under the car to see if anything is amiss. It looked to me that everything under there is perfectly flat and the important stuff is above the frame. I noticed nothing alarming and continued on. I did have to return to base and on the next trip over the damned bump I used the race shock settings and it didn't contact. So maybe the race setting is also a good speed bump setting :)

I guess my question is whether or not anything bad could have happened from that. So far nothing is leaking and the car feels as great as always, hoping it is "no harm, no foul" etc.

[Fatboy 18]

Happens to me all the time in my Gen II in the UK, bottom line is they want everyone to use public transport no matter where you live and more and more traffic calming measures are being put in place. its Horrid when you hear that noise of the car bottoming out. I do have a couple of bumps in the pan under the car :( I even got stuck exiting the Eurotunnel train one year, the gearbox protector shield bolts have clear evidence of being flattened out! that is normally the lowest part of the car once you roll off the road hump.

[USAFPILOT]

Mine only contacted for an instant in a vertical emotion as the suspension compressed, no dragging.

[Jack B]

On my car, the front lip of the belly pan faces down, making it about an inch lower than the flat of the pan. See if that lip is bent.

[mackzilla]

Mine only contacted for an instant in a vertical emotion as the suspension compressed, no dragging.

Oh you're fine than man! I've seen some people almost seesaw on the bumps here in the Midwest.

[USAFPILOT]

Found it interesting that in the freeway at about 90 my nose scraped the ground on some undulating pavement. Seems like the street setting is too soft, compressed down all the way and then scrape. I went to race mode again and no more problems.

So how often are y’all repainting the lower portion of the nose? Seems like I could use some kind of armor plating along the bottom this week.

[swexlin]

Found it interesting that in the freeway at about 90 my nose scraped the ground on some undulating pavement. Seems like the street setting is too soft, compressed down all the way and then scrape. I went to race mode again and no more problems.

So how often are y’all repainting the lower portion of the nose? Seems like I could use some kind of armor plating along the bottom this week.

My car has the little front air dams in the front, it is those that hit, so far.. But it does make a scary sound@