I was thinking the other way about protecting the bottom of lips and bumpers from the unavoidable steep driveways that litter the urban lanscapes nowadays. At first I was trying to think of a way to mount a peice of metalon the bottom of the bumper, but that would be fairly difficult. Then I thought, what about using pickup truck bed liner on the bottom of the bumper. Wouldnt that protect it from being scraped into oblivion? I have a black car so any old black lining would work and not stick out like a sore thumb. But also, from my understanding rhino linings and a possibly a few other companies will color match your car, so all the people out there with lighter color cars like sonic yellow, wrb, aspen white and such would have an option that would match pretty well. I figure on a white car, white bed liner on the bottom of a bumper would look better than a bunch of black scrapes, or any car with a fiberglass bumper could use some protection. What do you guys think?

 

i've got some scrapes on the front my of stock lip, but they're far enough under the car that you can't really see them unless you're really close to the ground. if i was going to try and do soemthing about it, i'd use titanium strips bolted into the lip. that way, you get sparks when you hit driveways. rally cars use the same sort of thing on their skid plates.

 

I think you would be having to go pretty damned fast to get sparks, and therfor would have to bottom out out at probably over 10 miles an hour. Possible on coilovers if you try . The main reason i was thinking about this is for people with fiberglass bumpers especially, because its possible to rub the fiberglass off to the point where theres a hole in the bumper