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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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

BEFORE:


AFTER:

Looking good, how much is it lowered by?

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

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

You've just sold me on the 25/40 H&R springs cheers for the pics!