Lift kit for T5 4 Motion - supplier?

[Murphenzo]

I wouldn't personally. You'd want to find out what that will do to the spring rate.

There's a few good reasons all of the kits out there have a max lift of 30mm.....it's the limit of how far you can go while keeping good suspension geometry and also retaining some negative travel (can be an issue if I get a bit too enthusiastic off road). It's also the limit of the angle that the rear CVs will take, and that's with the diff spacers that the Seikel kit comes with.

If you do go for the options of resetting the springs, you'll just need to be very careful they haven't gone too far.

[johannvisser]

Thank you for the advice. Will do my homework before I do anything

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[Sunny43.5]

Worth a look maybe , a mate of mine is a bit of an off road lover and sent me this the other day T5 Transporter | Air Ride Suspension Airride

[Big Bug]

MAD, we had to cut our trip really short and come home unfortunately. I was very happy with the suspension, we didn't do much gravel road driving but overall I'm pleased with how it went.

Bruce CQ



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[mudkrab]

hi guys, i just red over this whole post, and im keen to get a sekeil kit for my van. My van is a FWD but i mostly use it for dirt road driving and town driving, i do put a lot of weight in the back. my issue and i noted one of you said the kit was not too good on corrugations? im trying to get my van to absorb the corrugations a bit more than the stock suspension. im wondering how this sekeil desert hd kit would fare compared to stock suspension. or would there be a better option?

Currently if i sit on 110km/h or more the corrugations are not noticed, but anything less say 80km/h and the van shakes to bits

[Murphenzo]

On a related note, I figured this would be the right place to share the latest off road outing in my T5. Most of my off roading so far has been on the beach (which it loves) and basic dirt roads. Last weekend we headed out out to the Sundown National Park, about 3.5 hrs drive from Brisbane on the QLD/NSW border. Once you get to the gates you have 17km of rough, rocky, steep fire roads to get to the camp site.....which takes about 2.5 hours. It's slow going.

If I had of known what was out there I would have never brought the van, but I'm glad I did, because it f****** owned it! Getting down into the reedy creek camp site was seriously steep and had me pretty worried about getting out again. I figured with a few proper 4x4s in the group we'd get it out one way or another, so I gave it a shot.

Well, I wouldn't want to push it any further but it made it in and out of the place just fine. I had to hit some of the steeper climbs with a bit more speed that ideal to keep the engine on boost (no low range and all), but aside from that it was just fine. Ample traction, plenty of power and plenty of clearance. It survived 100% undamaged with no rock strikes under the car at all. I'm very very impressed!

As you imagine it got plenty funny looks and heaps of people coming up to check it out. You don't get soft roaders out in this park. It's all proper 4WDs.

As always, the pictures don't do justice to how steep any of this is. I mean it's nothing ridiculous. Any proper 4WD would crawl up this stuff in low range, but well, this van just shouldn't be able to do this so well!

These next two photos are pretty typical of a lot of the access road:




This is a screen cap from the video diving up out of reedy creek. This was probably one of the steepest sections.

[Murphenzo]

I have the "Desert" (not HD) kit in mine and I reckon it's about as smooth as the stock suspension. I generally run my All-Terrains pretty hard for road driving to try and keep the wear even.....and like that it really doesn't like corrugations. I don't think it'd be any different with stock suspension.

Generally when I am doing any decent distances off road I run them at lower pressures and they smooth out the corrugations nicely.

[Sunny43.5]

Wow that's almost as rough as the trails I ride on my dirt bike , that is pretty impressive for a van . We came close to an off road excursion a couple of years back when we attempted to do the Condamine Gorge '14 River Crossing road , because ours has been "Lowered " the water crossings were deemed a disaster waiting to happen for us so we chickened out plus having our two kids in wheel chairs in the back was not a good idea in case of damage water intrusion etc.

[Murphenzo]

Wow that's almost as rough as the trails I ride on my dirt bike , that is pretty impressive for a van . We came close to an off road excursion a couple of years back when we attempted to do the Condamine Gorge '14 River Crossing road , because ours has been "Lowered " the water crossings were deemed a disaster waiting to happen for us so we chickened out plus having our two kids in wheel chairs in the back was not a good idea in case of damage water intrusion etc.

Haha! It's funny you mention that, because I drove home via condamine river road and all 14 of its river crossings! I definitely wouldn't have done that in a stock height van.....way too much risk of getting water in the diffs/gearbox/interior.

I watched a few others go through the first one before I decided to commit and do it. In the end none of them were deeper than about 300mm, which is right on the limit for a stock height van (according to the factory).

It's a really nice drive through there though, well worth doing. I was tempted to camp in there for an extra night, but the whole place was pretty packed out being the easter long weekend.

[Sunny43.5]

Just as well you didn't camp the place has pretty gnarly snakes , we stopped a few hundred metres further back before the first eastern crossing and almost stepped on a large red belly black on the way down to the river .PS not stock height it,s been lowered 40mm so even worse for us .