# Did I damage my undercarriage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** audi, a5\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/did-i-damage-my-undercarriage/70689 "2012-01-30T03:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![81071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/f05b48/32.png) [@81071](https://community.cartalk.com/u/81071)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/did-i-damage-my-undercarriage/70689/7 "2012-01-30T05:46:43Z")
Thanks, everyone for your comments! I am checking everything as carefully as I can. I haven’t noticed any change in driving performance. The one thing i am not worried about is the tires since the spike was at about the center of the car. I will continue to watch the display to see if fluids go down unusually. As one of you mentioned, I will keep smelling for gas. My next service is already scheduled for April. My appointment is at the dealership. The day it happened I was so upset. The people at work told me the same things as some of you did: that shield probably protected the car and the scratch I heard was the spike bending. I did not hear the scratching under the middle area of the car, it was more to the front. I hope I did get lucky. Thanks to all of you for taking the time to answer my question. I’ve been kicking myself for the past week for being so stupid! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/did-i-damage-my-undercarriage/70689)._