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WARNING: "I was bored, so this is a pretty long thread"........SORRY! :nana:

Well..........the inevitable finally happened to me. :o I had my stereo turned up so loud, that you could say it had me somewhat distracted. As I was pulling into the smoke shop a fews days ago, there were about 6 guys standing right outside the front entrance just chill'n and what not, when all of them turned to look where the pounding was coming from. :D

As I pulled into the front parking spot, one of the guy's walked up to my passenger side window and bent over as if to say something..........and that's when it happened :eek: :eek: :eek: I hit the yellow curb stop in front of me. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Obviously with the tunes up and the bass pounding, I didn't feel a thing. And then with this guy walking up to talk to me, my mind wasn't even where it should have been. So I get out of the car (after rolling up the windows and setting the alarm) and walk around the front end, when outta the corner of my eye, I see that the bottom of my front ground piece is pushed under the car about 4 inches, and the top of it is seperated from the car about 2 inches.

In a panic, I run back around and try to open my door, (forgetting that I just set the alarm :banghead: ) so the sirens are blareing, the horn is honking, the lights are flashing, and all these guys are laughing their heads off. OOOHHHH, I was so pissed off........but I finally got it opened up and backed away from the curb.

I run back around to the front, and to my complete amazement, it looked as if I hadn't really done anything to it. It was sitting down about 1/4 of an inch from where it was mounted, but I just grabbed it and pushed it back into place against the bumper. I guess the thing that shocked me the most, was that the paint didn't hardly receive a scratch,....it didn't even spiderweb it anywhere. :eek: I'll I can say is; "My buddy definitely knows how to mix his Flex-Additive to the paint, cause there's no way that should have been able to bend that much without at least spider-webbing.

About the only thing I had to do to it, was by the next day, the double-sided tape that holds it on, caught too much air while seperated from the bumper, so it started falling off on the drivers side. It was a simple fix though, I just bought a roll of 1/2 inch 3M molding tape and re-taped the drivers side, just until we do the flames. At that time, we'll pull the whole thing off and re-mount it from scratch. I can tell you one thing......after that happened, I won't be making the same mistake again. :rolleyes:

Here's a few pictures of it that first night, and then the next day when I fixed it...........I got so lucky I can't believe it. The last one is a close-up of where I hit the curb, but you can barely see a scratch at the bottom......and that's only a few inches away. Once it's wet-sanded for the flames, it will dissappear.