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Are you sure that is 60 mm lower on the front? Mine rubs on the wheel arches and it's 25 mm lower (in the front) on gaz coilies.
I wouldn't go lower than 40 mm in the front as there will be a lot of stress on the drive shafts
I'm running 1,5 degree negative on the front (camber bolts) and 1mm...
80% of occasions the CC works fine but sometimes it's reversing the controls of the buttons.
For example if I press "R" the speed increases or if press "+" the cruise control disengages, or any other combinations like those mentioned
Has this ever happened to anyone as I tried to do a search...
any expert opinion on this? I'm not leaving mine to idle unless there's a thick layer of ice on the screen and need the heat to get it off
so leave it idle for 1 min or not?
you could also have a bent rod, I had this on my firs set of std shocks. front left side had about 1 degree negative because of that. camber bolts won't tilt the shock that much
After some days of tiny adjustments to my gaz kit I decided to share my thoughts on what I found out.
First of all I fitted the suspension myself, took me an entire day to get the std one out and fit the coilies, so a good advice would be to have some buddy ready to give a hand.
I also took...
not that low I'm afraid. After fitting my GAZ coilovers I have discovered that even if lowering say 30 mm you'll be left with very little suspension trevel (about 20 mm max travel).
if you want to go lower than that you'll have to shorten the bump stops, at least that's how I did it and I'm not...
of course it's relevant! that way I can see the available travel, then when back on the ground I can determine the amount of travel left ;)
Any way, I emailed GAZ and they advised to cut in half the bump stops.
As the car is about 25 mm lower than std on the front atm I could look under the arch...
you might wanna check if you're hitting the bump stops, I know that those apex springs lower the car a few good cm, so you loose suspension travel aswell
if you want to get the wheels stick out more you have 2 options:
spacers
or
a wheel with a smaller offset. For example a clio 182 wheel is 16" in diameter and 7" wide with an offset of 45 (ET 45 that is). a clio 172 cup has an offset of ET 38, so this wheel will stick 7 mm out more.
The car in...
many in this thread have far greater experience with coilovers than poor me, could some of you guys take a look here http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?603059-What-s-your-ride-height-GAZ-GHA-owners and perhaps tell me what's wrong?
thx!
ok this is a pain in the arse puzzle
I went to the garage and lifted the car on axle stands to get a clear view of the suspension. I will share a link towards an album containing the pictures along with description to every pic.
So,
before lifting the car I measured the distance between the...
meanwhile I found a old note of mine, in which the std ride height was written.
So it looks like I lowered the front 30 mm only..
Given the fact that now I have about 20 mm of travel left how on earth others go much lower? as it looks like the maximum lowering is 50 mm- sort of saying because...