worried about lowering

adummy · Post by **adummy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:10 am

im seriously toying with buying the famous coilover lowering springs but i am worried about my tyres rubbing the inner arch

put my steering on full lock today and saw that there was only about a 2-3mm gap between the tyre and arch

im going to get some low pro tyres when i can afford it and some spacers so this should help

anybody else had this problem or got their polo lowered and thier tyres are rubbing the arches?

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:15 am

My tyres rub at high speeds and big bumps and im down to the floor.

I have my old SE alloys on now which are 6 inch wide and dont scrub at all. How wide are your wheels?

If you put spacers on you wont be able to go as low

Im down to the floor and i dont have any issues!

adummy · Post by **adummy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:27 am

wideness are 6.5 on 15 inch wheels

i take it you have low profiles?

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:28 am

adummy wrote:wideness are 6.5 on 15 inch wheels

Youll be fine mate

Drop it on its arse

Make sure your fogs arent on if its not foggy tho

adummy · Post by **adummy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:35 am

lol

thanks for the heads up

will have ma polo down within august and post some pics when its done

thanx for the help

Adam

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:36 am

Good man!

Just deck it to the floor mate!

Its the only way of doing it

I have no probs with speed bumps even with the splitter

Its all good fun

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:11 pm

Yeh you can slam it on 15X6.5s,

What's the ET of the alloys? Or if you don't know, what alloys are they?

And what size tyres do you have? You want to be looking at 195/45/15s

CymruPolo · Post by **CymruPolo** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:03 pm

The good thing is if you get coilovers and you're having alot of trouble, you can just adjust them to what you're happy with

adummy · Post by **adummy** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:01 pm

Tim_GTi wrote:Yeh you can slam it on 15X6.5s,

What's the ET of the alloys? Or if you don't know, what alloys are they?

And what size tyres do you have? You want to be looking at 195/45/15s

they are dezent motion wheels and tyres are 195/50/15

but im gonna change em for some 45 soon

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:51 pm

Yeh do it,

BIG RHYS · Post by **BIG RHYS** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:55 am

I slammed my car with coilovers not long ago on 15" by 6.5 on 195.50 only really had rubbing wen i hit corners abit fast

... u should be fine but if u want 2 be totally safe get the 195.45. and now i got mine on 16" by 7J's on 195.45 and there is no rubbing at all a little wen there got a full car...

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:43 am

Wont your speedo by slightly out if you running 45s on 16" wheel ?

Thought the best profile to get was 40

But yea just slam it

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:10 am

Nah rhys you run 16/195/40s now don't you?

BIG RHYS · Post by **BIG RHYS** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:45 pm

woops got mixed up i am stupid some times

.... i am on 195.40s