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C5 Help => C5 Faults & Solutions => Topic started by: Luke S on 08, January, 2013 - 20:07:32

Title: Under side of the C5
Post by: Luke S on 08, January, 2013 - 20:07:32
Hi all

I use my C5 quite a lot and I have to take it out through the garden. Some places get quite narrow just enough to get the C5 through but I sometimes for get about the under side of the C5 and it some times scratches the bottom of the C5, would a metal plate do the trick :-\
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: coverman on 10, January, 2013 - 10:59:45
Metal plate, more weight.
Why not lift the C5 to clear the obstructions.?
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: KarlG on 10, January, 2013 - 13:38:22
Or remove the obstructions.  ::) ::)
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: danny7147 on 10, January, 2013 - 15:43:32
An aluminium plate wouldn't really add much weight...  ???
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: KarlG on 10, January, 2013 - 15:59:00
Just the expense, and lowering the ground clearance yet more. I still think that removing the obstruction is the best bet, only Luke has not mentioned what the source of the problem is, is it high, sharp, can it be moved, etc. Or even better, don't forget to aviod the problem.
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: Luke S on 10, January, 2013 - 16:15:55
Quote from: KarlG on  10, January, 2013  - 15:59:00
Just the expense, and lowering the ground clearance yet more. I still think that removing the obstruction is the best bet, only Luke has not mentioned what the source of the problem is, is it high, sharp, can it be moved, etc. Or even better, don't forget to aviod the problem.

I should have said that down the end of my garden there is a hole/dip then sticking out from that is a paving slab so I'll see if my dad can fill it in with soil also on a corner of my path is another dip where I have been using my go-kart before I got the C5
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: Karl on 11, January, 2013 - 10:00:46
somewhere , maybe on the old c5alive forum I think, is a piccie of a c5 where someone has attached some of the thin flat plastic in-fill trim that double glazing firms use . The trim was added to the underside quite discreetly and sort of acts as skids to stop the bottom of the bodyshell suffering damage.

quite clever I thought  :)
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: C5 ENTHUSIAST + RESTORER on 11, January, 2013 - 17:50:07
Hi Karl I think the is what you mean....

(http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af46/jordan8_2009/C5underneath.jpg)


(http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af46/jordan8_2009/C5underneathJPG2.jpg)
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: Luke S on 11, January, 2013 - 18:16:54
That's like what I am looking for
Title: Re: Under side of the C5
Post by: Karl on 11, January, 2013 - 19:11:41
yep - thats the piccie  8)