[Rockster]

One reason to leave them on is they act to let the leading spoiler lip ride up and onto something the spoiler might otherwise come into contact with.

While I try to stop just short to avoid running the spoiler over the in this case the sidewalk I'm not always successful. The car is so large/wide my usual technique of using the outside mirror housing and the sidewalk to know how far to pull the car in is not always available to me.

 

[Rockster]

Makes no sense to me. So your tiny bumper guard may have helped with the tiny area they cover, but what about that HUGE area between my red arrows that also rode up on the sidewalk? DOH!

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That huge area is raised a bit because of the thickness of the guards. Thus that huge area makes no contact with in this case the sidewalk surface.

 

[Rockster]

I see plenty of bumpers really beaten up that don’t have those on. Only solution is a new spoiler and taking your bumper off risking scratching something else in the process.

Can’t win either way.....

I decided to leave mine on the Wide Bodies... doesn’t bother me in the least.( Took them off my 2015 Hellcat after delivery... and didn’t have them on my Chargers now slightly F’ed up bumper LOL)

Just call me “Yella”

Been going back and forth on having the splitter guards removed from my Hellcat Challenger. But the other day leaving home the left hand corner of the splitter scraped on the pavement. Had I turned right the right hand corner would have scraped on the pavement. And this scraping happens exiting/entering other driveways too.

I think I'll leave the splitter guards on. While they may be intended just for shipping they keep the rather looking delicate corners of the splitter from getting shredded.

Oh, at a dealer last Saturday talking to a SA about these guards, about having them removed next time I bring the car in. He said there's a guy who owns two Hellcats and this guy has been searching for a set of guards to install. The SA says apparently these can't be ordered all he can do is if an owner has the guards removed and doesn't want them to save them for someone who does want them. The guy with the two Hellcats got the guards he wanted, but he had to wait.

 

[Rockster]

That is a terrible habit to get into. Always back into parking spots like that or avoid altogether. Those yellow protectors are not gonna help your front end if you smack that cement, you'll have some major damage. Seen a guy go over a bump stop then when he backed off it pulled the front bumper cover loose and did major damage.

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Backing into my parking space means my driver door is right up against a support post. Since I never have to access the passenger door while parked -- if I have a passenger I back the car out and then let her get in -- it makes sense for me to park nose first with the passenger side pretty close to the post to give the driver door plenty of room to open so I can get in and out of the car without a struggle.

It appears the car's nose is at a height that is just above "normal" curb height at least where I park my car at home.

Another reason for not backing in my Hellcat is my car spaces are just feet away from where from a row of apartments where my neighbors live and the Hellcat is very noisy at start up and I don't want to cause the neighbors any grief if I can help it. If I backed the Hellcat in come time to start the engine the neighbors would get the full blast of noise from the Hellcat exhaust.

Now my JCW gets backed in its space, which has the passenger side of the car next to the support post. Fortunately this car is much quieter upon engine start and I don't have any worry about disturbing the neighbors.

Some lots do not have curbs so I'll just pull into a (rather distant) space and often pull forward into the other space then put the transmission in reverse and use the back up camera to make sure the back end is all inside the space. Then when it is time to leave I can just pull forward and out.

In other lots if I there are curbs or stones at the front of the parking spaces I chose a parking space that I can see the curb line and use the mirror bottoms to position the car to avoid pulling in too far. Believe it or not I'm pretty good at this. My previous car had a very low front air dam (and it cost $400+ to replace) and when I parked the car often the air dam was just inches away from the curb. I put a lot of miles on that car and the air dam was just fine. (It did get replaced early on when I let someone drive the car who was not as aware of the low hanging air dam.)

Or if the lot has plenty of room I'll back into a parking space.