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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: sabz on 13 July 2010, 16:27
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hi everyone, i wanted to see if anyone here has the same problem or issue with their golfs. i have a 1.6 mk4 golf and recently put on 17inch santa monica alloys on. after i put them on i realised that there was a big gap between the wheels and the arches and it made it look kinda stupid and not very nice. so i thought id buy some lowerings springs and make it look more neat. and so i did buy them, i bought (PI Spring Kit Sportpack VW Golf Mk4 Gti, V5, 1.9Tdi 150 1J 1998-2004 Lowers 35mm) (80-283) which states it isnt obviously for a 1.6. but i had no idea until i did some research. and now i hav a real problem with driving over speed humps because its seems to scrape something underneath every single time, and now its become so anoying im really regretting putting them on, i can barely go over 10mph over speed hump, the ride comfort has gone so bad that i have to find routes that dont have speed humps. i wanted to know if there was a big difference between the springs that i have on currently and the springs that i shouldv had(1.6.etc) and is there anything i can do to make this problem go away or somehow make it slighly better. thank you guys for taking your time to read this.
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You have the wrong springs fitted which will not be helping.
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I thought that the 1.9 woulf be "lighter" than a 2.3, gti etc... so that you would not the 35mm drop? might be wrong....
get a photo up, how wide are your tyres?
I had 255's on the rear of my celica, great for corners, horrid for anything else, pot holes, speed bumps etc.....