Lowering Springs

LoveTheVAG · Post by **LoveTheVAG** » Fri May 03, 2013 2:22 pm

Hi everyone,

Looking at buying some lowering springs for my Polo. I was thinking 25mm front/40mm rear. Couple of questions:

1. How easy are they to fit? Could someone give me a few tips please?

2. If you have lowering springs on your car, could you show me a pic of how low yours looks? Would be a great help

Cheers

H

C17LJR · Post by **C17LJR** » Fri May 03, 2013 5:25 pm

Springs are really quite easy to fit, there's plenty diys out there.

I just fitted the H&R 35/55mm kit to the wife's car at the weekend. Pics in the thread here

http://www.uk-polos.net/view ... 56&t=59217

Joe9n3 · Post by **Joe9n3** » Fri May 03, 2013 10:15 pm

Rears are a piece of cake! done mine in 20 mins boths sides because it is literally 1 bolt:
Jack up in the middle of the rear beam
Place axle stands both sides
Lower till the car is on both aswell as jack
undo/remove bolt at the bottom of the shock both sides
lower jack but not fully till springs come loose
reverse steps with new springs

Front took about an hour per side as they are a B*TCH to get out and in!
and the manual spring compressors i used take an age

will post pics tomorrow of mine with 25/40 on

C17LJR · Post by **C17LJR** » Fri May 03, 2013 10:44 pm

I had a real issue with my drivers side front, ended up undoing the wishbone from the subframe to get the strut out the hub

LoveTheVAG · Post by **LoveTheVAG** » Sat May 04, 2013 1:03 pm

Cheers lads that's really helpful! I will have to see how confident me and my mate are feeling about pretending to be mechanics haha

Would be good to see the pics with the 25/40's on - what brand did you get?

B1N9S · Post by **B1N9S** » Sun May 05, 2013 6:10 am

I have H&R 25/40's on my car. No pics at the moment. But the car looks 100% better, so go for it. I have DIY'd springs before and to be honest, they are reasonably easy, but can also be a real pain in the arrse. I was feeling flush so paid a local garage 100 notes to do it for me, as the car was only 6 months old at the time !

All I will say, is make sure you have ALL the tools you need before starting.

B1N9S · Post by **B1N9S** » Sun May 05, 2013 6:17 am

Here you go. I will try and get some better pics, but the missis is about to leave for work !!!

Lucaio · Post by **Lucaio** » Sun May 05, 2013 10:41 am

Quick question (sorry to hijack the thread), looking to get some H&R springs and want to fit them myself. I don't really want to be paying £100+ to get some bloke in the garage to do it.
I was wondering if there are any specialist tools I need? I know I will need a spring compressor but any particular one? Would this one be OK?

B1N9S · Post by **B1N9S** » Sun May 05, 2013 11:45 am

Those look fine mate, but to be honest, I have never used a set of clamps to remove the springs on any of my previous cars and never had a problem.

Only things I can think of are jack, axle stands, offset ring spanner, hexagonal key, other than that, just the usual set of decent spanners, sockets. Don't have sizes sorry mate, I haven't done the 6R.

Good luck with it though.

Lucaio · Post by **Lucaio** » Sun May 05, 2013 11:52 am

Cheers mate, hopefully I won't bugger up my car

LoveTheVAG · Post by **LoveTheVAG** » Sun May 05, 2013 3:03 pm

Thanks for the pics - your car's looking really good! I get the feeling I will end up paying a garage to do it as I don't wanna bugger the car up :p

Doctorn · Post by **Doctorn** » Mon May 06, 2013 11:54 am

Hi, I got these H&R 25/40 springs installed for a couple of weeks ago
here you got some picture.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

LoveTheVAG · Post by **LoveTheVAG** » Mon May 06, 2013 6:00 pm

Looking good, how much is it lowered by?

Doctorn · Post by **Doctorn** » Mon May 06, 2013 6:02 pm

LoveTheVAG wrote:Looking good, how much is it lowered by?

If u asked me, mine is lowered 25/40mm with H&R springs

franko247g · Post by **franko247g** » Mon May 06, 2013 7:34 pm

You've just sold me on the 25/40 H&R springs

cheers for the pics!

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