How low to go mk2

ameet · Post by **ameet** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:50 am

hi guys, bought my first car mk2 polo 1986 with only 23,000 with a full vw service history. anyways i want to go as low as i can, now i have seen pictures of mk2s lowered 70 on 13s but they dont seem that low so if i had 13s and dropped it 90 will it scrap hardcore with 3 people in the car?
Cheers

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:19 pm

any lower with 3 up and you might have some trouble. they can go lower though, thats for sure. i've heard of people dropping at least 100mm i think.

xcore · Post by **xcore** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:44 pm

80mm springs

Josh_polo · Post by **Josh_polo** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:16 pm

Ive heard of them going 110mm

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:00 am

Worth bearing in mind if you carry any passengers and plan to fit alloys at any point, the square rear arches rub like crazy on breadvans. I didn't even lower mine and I had problems when I fitted a set of 13" alloys from a mk1 golf, tyres any wider than 165 section cause big problems, and I bet even 165s would be tricky with anything below a 60-80mm drop. Not such a problem if you don't ever carry back seat passengers, but you sound like you do! I ended up taking a hacksaw to the insides of my rear arches, did a really nasty job, I wasn't proud of that.. anyway, even then I had to go from 185/60s to 175/65s in order to carry passengers and that was on full height suspension.