Ride Height

[skattrd]

The back of my Jetta appears to be higher than it should be, see bad pic, those are 16″ wheels as well.

I’ve checked the shocks and springs all round and they’re all good (rear shocks are virtually new). The car drives and handles ok and I was contemplating putting some larger springs on the front (+ 40mm) to bring it up to the same sort of level as the rear. What do you reckon?

[Chris S]

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skattrd

I have a dream for the car. I don’t know if/when it’ll happen but I’d love a G60 Jetta countryish

[] Well the back end is certainly there! []

[VR6SyncroMark2]

LOL put some bigger wheels on it and it could pass as a monster truck. (is it possible the rear shocks are new and dont belong on this car??)

Rob

[Chris S]

Thats what happens when you fit standard Golf/Jetta rear shocks,
as with these 40mm lower than standard 2wd rear shocks fitted on my Syncro (and now on the back of LD50’s GTI 16v) []

[skattrd]

If thats what standard shocks do then I would assume thats what the previous owner fitted …
Do you reckon it’ll be ok if I put + 40mm springs on the front with the back as it is then?

And it was the state of the rear end that got me thinking about going country stylee []

[Chris S]

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Originally posted by skattrd

If thats what standard shocks do then I would assume thats what the previous owner fitted …
Do you reckon it’ll be ok if I put + 40mm springs on the front with the back as it is then?

And it was the state of the rear end that got me thinking about going country stylee []

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I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work [] oops I stand corrected (see next post)

[no such user]

you may find you run into alignment issues at the front and also it’ll top out the shocks and tear them out of the top mounts if you drive it on rough roads. Been there, done that.

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