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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: allsmiles on 02 August 2012, 18:49
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hi folks, since my golf isnt on the road yet id thought i have a play with the coilovers so today i wound it down to the lowest it could go, as i was getting close to the lowest setting i noticed that the spring in the coilover had become loose, is this normal? i would think when the car was off the jacks the weight of the vehicle would compress the spring so the spring wouldnt be loose anymore
cheers and heres a quick pic
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a181/alexdrivesa5/P1040557.jpg)
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As long as you don't come across any tall ants or fag papers you should be fine.. :grin:
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I still see some arch gap :lipsrsealed:
Cars looking good though i do like the purples :cool:
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You usually have thinner helper springs to take up the slack but if its right low it can still move about. The main concern with having it really low is the drivesafts hitting the chassis legs when you go over bumps. I can't put my AP's right down because of this issue and don't want to notch the chassis. Brought them down another 1cm today lol, thats as far as I can go but can only just get my finger between the arch and the wheel, and I have wee fingers :smiley:
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I still see some arch gap :lipsrsealed:
Cars looking good though i do like the purples :cool:
lol theres plenty of arch gap! my mate stretched some 165/40/16 onto the 8j front rims
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Looks bang on though, you got/get any more pics for us? :cool:
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Nice!!! My front coilovers are all the way down, it'll be fine, gonna remove the helper springs next time i'm fiddling with it...my engine is on hockey pucks, that helps (alot), used to smash of everything!!!
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Nice!!! My front coilovers are all the way down, it'll be fine, gonna remove the helper springs next time i'm fiddling with it...my engine is on hockey pucks, that helps (alot), used to smash of everything!!!
do you puck each mount? I desperately need to do this :grin:
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Looks bang on though, you got/get any more pics for us? :cool:
heres another one i just took before battery died
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a181/alexdrivesa5/P1040558.jpg)
need lower profile tyres on the back tho, but need the rear arches rolled so it can sit lower
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I give you a month before you ruin your wheels :shocked:
It wouldn't take much of a pothole to buckle one of those lips :undecided:
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Nice!!! My front coilovers are all the way down, it'll be fine, gonna remove the helper springs next time i'm fiddling with it...my engine is on hockey pucks, that helps (alot), used to smash of everything!!!
do you puck each mount? I desperately need to do this :grin:
Yes mate, I did them all...
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Looks as low as mine.
I have just put 195/40/16 Tyres on my 8" wide front rims that has lowered the front an extra 10mm and I now hit my subframe on the road all the time :sad: had to drive to wells at 40/50. Did get 40mpg with a high lift cam though
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Looks as low as mine.
hit my subframe on the road all the time :sad:
'Good noise that is...'
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Jeez, do you guys all live on a sheet of glass..... :grin:
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Do you low guys take the front wheel arch liner out as mine rubs when cornering hard.
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Do you low guys take the front wheel arch liner out as mine rubs when cornering hard.
They soon wear through :grin:
Nice!!! My front coilovers are all the way down, it'll be fine, gonna remove the helper springs next time i'm fiddling with it...my engine is on hockey pucks, that helps (alot), used to smash of everything!!!
do you puck each mount? I desperately need to do this :grin:
Yes mate, I did them all...
Cheers mate, ill get some ordered :wink:
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Looks as low as mine.
I have just put 195/40/16 Tyres on my 8" wide front rims that has lowered the front an extra 10mm and I now hit my subframe on the road all the time :sad: had to drive to wells at 40/50. Did get 40mpg with a high lift cam though
my black mk2 was that low at the front my subframe was always hitting something even on a slitely wobly road you would hear scrap then a bang that scares the fcuk out of you specialy if you doing 80 :grin:
i had to take the vr front splitter off and put gti one on as the vr one would be scraping the road :grin:
bottom of my subframe was bar metal if you looked under the car. :grin:
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If the springs are loose you can now fail the mot.
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tweed is yours as low as mine or was it juniors?
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tweed is yours as low as mine or was it juniors?
Mine and his are about the same
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i love this photo of mine :)
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/M70REL/223375_10150164062697741_509702740_7066428_3253531_n.jpg)
just found this photo...
this is how i got a few extra lows..
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/M70REL/IMAG0315.jpg)
instead of 195 45 on a 7j, 165 40, wasnt fun to drive
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Got mine right down to! and my down pipe loves to scrape the ground now and then. off to wales today about a 4 hour drive time to put them to the test!