u/ForsakenRhubarbPie

Hi all, and thanks for your help on this - pulling into my driveway the first time (it has a big slope downwards to pull in), I believe I scraped the undercarriage, near the middle of the car.

The scrapes are in these grey-ish panels in the middle of the car. I've felt the scrape, and the panel feels like plastic (I can pull off a scraped piece and it is gummy).

ChatGPT says these are aluminum underbody components that cover heatshielding for the exhaust, so I am concerned (even through that doesn't make sense, why would the exhaust be in the middle of the car).

I've taken a video of the scrapes, attached here: https://imgur.com/a/cOTPV0s

Can you let me know if this is a big deal?

Photo below is from dealer, pre-purchase.

https://preview.redd.it/cp4pdbfi6czg1.png?width=801&format=png&auto=webp&s=a60e3fc190df75c9646b09d98265936b69260285

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u/ForsakenRhubarbPie — 10 days ago