Lowering springs - am I missing something here.
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The lowering springs are much heavier duty steel than the originals but they are significantly shorter. No idea what drop they are meant to give but looks a lot.
So I get the originals will compress a lot more also but I am not sure this is going to work.
Need to take the coil overs off anyway so will fit one of these set ups. May be a trial fit of one lowered set on on side of the front and standard set on the other. Drop it back on the floor and look at the difference. Upside is I will only have to strip the front corners a total of 3 times not 4.
Anyhow what do you think before I put my half baked plan into action.
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Lowering springs - am I missing something here.
scottmk1 said
There is no way those springs are for a mk1 Golf, they are so short that the dampers will be almost fully compressed and sitting on the bump stops before you even go the weight of the car on them.
I thought that just making sure I am not going nuts. I haven’t changed springs for about 20 years.
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Even if they were mk1 springs I wouldn't recommend fitting lowering springs onto standard shocks anyway
It'll handle horribly and then the shocks will probably give up and leak soon after fitting
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