How do you tell how low your car is?

[the.little.fox]

you could just measure the distance from the top of the arch to the centre of the wheel, then it makes no difference the size of the wheels or tyres.....

compare the measurement you make with that of a non lowered car..

[...joe]

you could just measure the distance from the top of the arch to the centre of the wheel, then it makes no difference the size of the wheels or tyres.....

compare the measurement you make with that of a non lowered car..

this is the exact way you tell how low your car is, i'm not sure what the standard ride height using that method is but thats how you calculate it.

[Deefadog]

Will measure it tomorrow!

Cheers

can someone with standard ride do theirs so i can compare please?

cheers

[jase555]

Mine are 185/60/14's if it helps

[workhorse '90 8v]

I have a standard ride, but it's in for its mot i'll measure it later for you (if it comes back )

[Organisys]

Dont forget springs 'sag' a bit with age, so a standard ride height car could bit a fair bit lower than the golf was from the factory. The rears seem to go especially.

[Judderi]

you could just measure the distance from the top of the arch to the centre of the wheel, then it makes no difference the size of the wheels or tyres.....

compare the measurement you make with that of a non lowered car..

this is the exact way you tell how low your car is, i'm not sure what the standard ride height using that method is but thats how you calculate it.

Ah but what if you have different arches? i.e trim/no trim/g60 ?   

[Deefadog]

 

Thanks guyz, will do the measurment after work

[...joe]

here we go.....

the 8 valves measure at 340mm from the bottom of the metal arch to the centre of the wheel.
the 16 valves measure 330mm.
and carb models run at 360mm.

most manufacturers use the measurement drop calculated from the carb model so a 40mm drop for a 16v is actually a 20mm drop on that car, as the measurement is 40mm from 360mm.

make sense?

so to measure you're cars drop, measure the distance from the centre of your wheels to the bottom of the metal arch, compare it to either the carb model or to find out how much lower than standard compare it to the measurement of 330mm for a standard 16v.

[Deefadog]

Cheers Joe!

Mine measures 230mm from the centre to the bottom of the plastic trim (i obviously can't get to the metal)

so call it 5mm for the plastic....

Compared to a stadard 16V mine has been lowered 95mm (seems very low)?

And to the standard carb 75mm

Cheers, finally i know how much she has been dropped