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Offline DarnPB

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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #10 on: 18 March 2009, 16:13 »
Hw much do you weigh? :laugh: :lipsrsealed:
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #11 on: 18 March 2009, 16:26 »
lol 10 stone, but the two previous owners weren't the smallest people :P
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #12 on: 28 March 2009, 21:10 »
Dont complain some of the baseball caps on here pay extra money to have their golfs sagging like an Austion 1000 with no hydra gas....
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #13 on: 28 March 2009, 22:58 »
Quote from: damien.wrl on 28 March 2009, 21:10
Dont complain some of the baseball caps on here pay extra money to have their golfs sagging like an Austion 1000 with no hydra gas....

On one side?
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Offline Steve_B

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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #14 on: 29 March 2009, 11:37 »
Have you checked the shocks? Look for signs of leaking, when my front ones went the car definately set lower.
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #15 on: 29 March 2009, 11:45 »
Shocks don't bear any weight - you can push them down with your hand.
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Offline maplesyrup

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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #16 on: 29 March 2009, 19:33 »
Check the rear top spring retainers.

If the drivers side one is rusted out it could make the car sit up to an inch lower as the spring will be resting on the body instead.

Like the other guy's have said though I would look at the springs as there's not much else that could be wrong, particularly if it's at the front and you have recently fitted new top mounts etc.
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side?
« Reply #17 on: 29 March 2009, 23:12 »
What's the condition of the springs like?

After two years of salt and filth a cheap-assed lowering kit might be suffering from coil-bind and rotten springs.  Cheap metal rots fast.  You might even have a snapped spring somewhere in the mix.  Take 'em off and check 'em over is the only real way of sorting it. 
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side? UPDATE
« Reply #18 on: 30 March 2009, 15:44 »
Quote from: Llewellyn on 30 March 2009, 15:32

I never should have sold the grey one :(

Guess what i said to Nick yesterday at spring festival!
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Re: Why would my golf be sagging on the drivers side? UPDATE
« Reply #19 on: 30 March 2009, 16:18 »
take both front shocks off and lay them on the ground side by side, if there is a spring issue it should immediately be obvious.  if not, fit them back on but swap em over, if the problem remains you know its not the shocks/springs/top mounts causing it.

get under the car and check the wishbones, are they angled roughly the same?
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