Don't know whether I should be concerned but I keep scraping the black plastic thing under the front end of car every time I go in and out of my driveway? I notice what ever that thing is, that it bends but the bottom of it is all messed up?

Even if you're not lowered (I am) you'll have lots of problems like this! I've leanred that there are some driveways and speed bumps that I just can NOT go over, and have to find a way around. It's a pain in the behind, but it's part of driving these cars. I scrape badly going into my garage, so I built this (and you can see the scrape action, too!):

http://www.nmia.com/~esp/newweb/pics/z06/smallGrear8x6.jpg

There are stiffener's and such that you can put under the air dam, and also a cool little wheel set up that I'm thinking about trying, that supposedly stops most of the damage!

Here you go http://www.customcorvetteaccessories.com/thefattdaddy.html

Mine scraps also, I was told that black plastic piece is airdam to force air up to cool engine.

don't worry about that, that is just a flap that will bend and you won't hurt it let alone see it.

don't worry about that, that is just a flap that will bend and you won't hurt it let alone see it.

:iagree: mine looks like a cheese grader was taken over it few dozen times.

I like the Wheels added to the little metal "deflectors" under the front bumper. The only thing you can do is to take the bump or dip at an angle if you can...

I pulled that plastic piece off till someone told me it was used to force air up to cool engine so I put it back on and just ignore the scraping noise.

This article came from Car and Driver mag:


Take, for example, the area below the front fascia. There's a black air dam that runs across the bottom of the nose. Its job is to reduce the amount of air that flows under the car. It's roughly three-and-a-half inches off the road, and this will sound funny, but DESIGNERS KNOW IT WILL SCRAPE THE SURFACE when, for example, dipping into a parking lot. IT IS MEANT TO HIT THE GROUND, though, and it won't be damaged when it does. (The C5 had a similar piece, but now Hill says the C6's makes less noise when it contacts the road.) The devil's in the details—there are curves at each end of the air dam. The radius of these curves was carefully designed so that air coming off the dam stays close to the body to minimize drag-inducing turbulence.

The center piece is also hinged and has return springs... You should see what happens to mine when I drive up on my rhino ramps... U G L Y !!