Petkan

Having suffered the same on numerous occasions I have come up with two
ideas:
First: keep a piece of sheet plastic, metal, carton whatever in your trunk.
When you see what you are in - don't panic - slide the sheet under the
bumper cover and gently reverse.
Second (I have not done it yet but if my wife does it again I will) install
couple of small castor at the back bottom rim of the cover.
The key problem is that due to its angle the cover "bites" into the curb. If
you just push by hand while somebody gently reverses- there would be no
harm.
Good luck
Plamen, Toronto
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"Spider" <beelzebubba@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> warp2_shadow@yahoo.com (C.R. Krieger) wrote in message
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> > Tony Shimi <tshimi@mitre.org> wrote in message
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> > > It happened to me two weeks after I got the car (99 A6 Q); it totally
> > > destroyed the cover and I paid for a new one / installation on my own.
I
> > > learned to stay away from any curb / curb stoppers.
> > >
> > > As to the sport sedan point; I've always had one; 5 series and 2002
BMWs, VW
> > > Passat, 900S SAAB, even Sunbeam Alpine (non-sedan), ... and they never
did
> > > this before.
> >
> > Well, none of those is quite as low in the front, so you lucked out.
> > Y'see, Tony, you missed the flamewars in here from a year or so ago
> > over Audi's 'defectively designed' bumpers that caught on curbs when
> > you drove backwards over them. JPF and I were two of the chief
> > fanners of said flames, pointing out that if one doesn't drive over
> > said curbs, one doesn't tear off the bumper cover.
>
> [sheepishly raises hand]
>
> Yeah, I was in there too. I was going to stay out of this one, and
> I'm not actually gonna make any comment on "parking by feel," but I
> don't think a flamewar is really necessary at this point.
>
> Who knows - maybe the judge will throw the thing out, and it won't
> cost us *more* to buy a new Audi in the future because of it...
>
> Spider