[speedsatya]

Originally Posted by Rehaan

Ok,

Let me just get something straight here. When you look at a quoted ground clearance figure in a magazine or wherever it does NOT accurately indcate how likely it is that your car will bottom out on a speedbump.
For example, it is possible that a car with a GC150mm will not touch a speedbreaker that another car with GC170mm touches!

Why? - well, GC is measured between the lowest hanging point of the car to the ground. The lowest point usually tends to be the bottom of the differential (or the exhaust system.)
Now, keep in mind that the differential is directly between two drven wheels, which means hitting the differential on a speedbreaker is an almost impossible task.

So since that is eliminated, what are we left with as a point of reference for GC? Nothing.

Usually when a car hits on a breaker, it hits somewhere between the front and rear wheels. This is where measurements should be taken for "speedbreaker ground clearance" imo!!

Its illinformed to assume that a octavia is more likely to hit a breaker than an esteem (134mm vs 160mm), because all that is likely to mean is that an octavia's lowest point is 26mm lower than the esteem's lowest point.
Now since Rtech says he has not had major problems with the octi bottoming out, i cant help but to assume that it has just one really low (134mm) point, and the rest reasonably higher.

cya
R

ps - GTO, C-class is apparently 130mm, any problems? (although i think it is overall a lower car, hence would still be a bit of a problem)

,hey rehaan ,
that was terrific.ur explanation was spot-on.hehe i always used to wonder about these cars with 130mm Gc do not have problems ,while my zen with 165mm GC scraped everything that is raised along the road.