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Hello, ordered some coilovers from philj. Great service!

Will be getting them fitted on Wednesday, any advice on what else to tell my mechanic?
Iv just noticed some people are changing drop links to 2003 mondeo ones. Will it be worth me ordering and fitting them at the same time too?

Not really sure how many mm I want it going down, basically want it lowered, but not slammed! There's lots of speed ramps around my way, don't want the car getting stuck! Lol

Or are the shorter droplinks only suggested for when the car is completely slammed?!

Ps, those of you that have coilovers fitted, any issues getting down gradients/up speed ramps etc?

Someone advised me to 'take speed bumps at an angle' whilst another person said I don't need to worry on a polo because its a small car the distance between the front tyre and bumper is quite short so there's no issues.

As you can probably tell, I'm new to lowering!

(It's a 1.4 TDI 9n3 by the way!)

Cheers!

You shouldn't need the shortened droplinks unless you are going really low. I didn't need them on mine and there's quite a lot of clearance to the driveshaft, (see my pics for how low mine is). I've only had a few scrapes and that's usually with people in the car

Managed to get the coilovers fitted in the end. Family member owns a garage so he sorted it for me.
Fitted em, it was making a noise, ordered the 03 mondeo drop links, fitted them, and jobs a good en. No scraping noise now lol