Lowering, but not too much

avfcnutter · Post by **avfcnutter** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:19 am

i know everyone rates coilovers, but im only looking to lower my 1.4 mpi a little bit, are coilovers the righ thing for doing this also?

xcore · Post by **xcore** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:09 am

if your going to lower onl a small amount coilovers are abit of a waste

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:13 am

I swear theres like 4 topics on this atm!

How much is a little bit?

You can buy -30mm springs from ebay that will lower your car a little bit, but hardly noticable by anyone but yourself really.

Brad. · Post by **Brad.** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:34 am

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... hp?t=39123
Read that man,
You can also buy Eibach springs that lower it like 40-50mm.

chrischap2003 · Post by **chrischap2003** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:25 pm

Coils arealways going to be a betterset up than just springs, however low you gooo...

plus WHEN you change your mind, you can lower it more

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:31 pm

This has already been spoken about in another thread......

But if you go lower than -30mm springs on your standard dampers, it will ruin them over time.

Plus its a belly ache fitting springs, where as coilovers are a straight swap

xcore · Post by **xcore** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:24 pm

^ coilovers are just as time consuming to fit as shocks and springs, as the only difference is you may have to compress the spring to put the strut back together.

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:48 pm

Coilovers are far quicker to fit than lowering springs as you have to take apart the original strut etc

1der · Post by **1der** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:04 pm

go for coilovers. then you can hace your car sitting how you like it

xcore · Post by **xcore** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:32 pm

3LL1077 wrote:Coilovers are far quicker to fit than lowering springs as you have to take apart the original strut etc

you do anyway to get the topmounts for the coilovers??

Edit: i see what your saying as some people buy new topmounts but if you dont its pretty much the same amount of time

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:44 pm

You really should buy new top mounts, saves replacing them later on