Polo GTI royal treatment..

[MissVuks]

thanks guys

Yes, yes, i do love my car!! I don't understand those who neglect their cars after spending so much $$. My cousin has a black 07 golf gti, he came over today. It was DIRTY as, wheres the love??

[jayjay]

by that same notion, my car should be much much dirtier... shiny polo btw

[Preen59]

thanks guys

Yes, yes, i do love my car!! I don't understand those who neglect their cars after spending so much $$. My cousin has a black 07 golf gti, he came over today. It was DIRTY as, wheres the love??

Black is a terrible colour for dirt. Shows up so easily.

Your car looks good. It would look great just an inch lower. Too low and you'd lose drivability, but i think an inch would fill the arches and look nice.

Nice shots by the way. I wish i could take pictures like that..

[MissVuks]

Preen i wouldn't even know where to start or what to choose when it comes to lowering the polo..

Thats something I'm a bit scared to venture towards.. LOL its a big decision, considerable investment..

The pics are slowly getting better i think LOL well i hope they are

[Preen59]

Preen i wouldn't even know where to start or what to choose when it comes to lowering the polo..

Thats something I'm a bit scared to venture towards.. LOL its a big decision, considerable investment..

The pics are slowly getting better i think LOL well i hope they are

I'm just talking about a set of springs. Eibach are quite good, H&R, KW, all good brands. I know everyone says "coilovers, coilovers", but you can get a good set of lowering springs for quite a reasonable price, and most well known brands are very good.

I'm sure for what you want, they would be fine. Usually most after market springs are a little firmer, although with the Polo GTI, they are probably about the same ride quality, as it is reasonably firm in standard form.

[MissVuks]

See thats where i was confused - do you do coilovers or springs??

Obviously there is a big difference in $$ - whats the usual price for a good set of springs or coilovers??

[Preen59]

See thats where i was confused - do you do coilovers or springs??

Obviously there is a big difference in $$ - whats the usual price for a good set of springs or coilovers??

You'd be crazy to get coilovers to be honest. A set of good springs would be fine.

See, a height adjustable coilover set is a spring and damper set, with the function to set the spring to a height you want for the ride height you want. In this case, you replace the whole shock (damper) and spring setup.

Whereas a set of springs is well, a set of springs. So you simply remove your standard springs and replace them with your new spring set.

A set of springs will cost you usually less than 400 dollars, whereas a set of adjustable coilovers will cost you over 1000 dollars.

More to come, just give me a sec..

[MissVuks]

Champion.. keep it coming

[Preen59]

OK...

Now, everything on a car is a compromise between numerous things. Suspension (which funnily enough fits in the "everything" category) is no different.

Suspension engineers have to deal with a number of problems, but we'll keep it simple. Basically (and i'm keeping it REALLY simple here), the better you want something to handle the rougher it will ride. Adj. coilovers are usually designed with handling in mind more so than ride quality.

So, unless you want your car to handle much better, you want to be able to go really low or you want the ability to adjust your ride height at will, coilovers are a waste of time and money, when there are perfectly good spring packages available. You would probably also find that your car would be rough to ride in and it just wouldn't be as nice to drive day to day if you purchased coilovers.

If i was in your shoes, i'd go for a nice set of springs. You seem like you want something versatile and i'm assuming you use your car every day, so i think around a 25mm drop would be nice. All you want is to centre the wheel in the arch, which will make the lines of the car flow much better, if you get me.

Does that make sense?

[MissVuks]

Make sense - Yeah i want it maybe a tad lower (for aesthetics) - but comfort is important..

I just get memories of my brothers old 626 when he lowered it.. His ride was so bumpy, it was actually irritating being a passenger in his car..

Springs are the cheaper option, I'm not going to race my car so handling isn't high on the agenda.. Its fine for the way i drive LOL which isn't like a maniac..

What about a RSB?? How much of an improvement to handling do they add??