Lowering by how much?

Hi, I am thinking of dropping the golf whith these alloys on

http://www.motor-world.co.uk/show_prod.php?prod_id=18455

but i dont know how much i would be able to lower it with the origional suspention on?

Thanks in advance

James

as there a pretty standard rim,i reckon u can go pretty fookin low without too many issues,just go careful with ya sump!!lol

thanks alot mate a just wasnt sure dont know what to have done first am guessting id be better getting the rims then loweing it, im not much of a mechanic lol oh and since your managment can you answer me a question offtopic please, i am wanting a visor strip putting on my car and cant figure out what writing to put on it, would i be ok putting vwwold.co.uk on it?

Thanks again

go for it mate,if u just want a strip,i have some vwwold stickers left,£1 each so not too bad! what size rims u got now? if u are getting those exact rims then i reckon u could drop it upto 80mm wihout issues,but get a couple of the more experienced mechanically minded off here o confirm that!

I'd say it'll go down 80mm without issues just depends of the offset (ET) of the wheels. My old BBS wheels were 6.5jx14 and ET45 with 185/60/14 tyres and rubbed a bit near 80mm down. I now run Golf GTI steels and GTI teardrops which are 6jX14 ET38 with 195/45/14 tyres and they just tuck under the standard arch, the only rubbing I've had is the sump, subframe and chassis rails on the floor if it gets a little uneven minly cause I dropped it so low and have raised it since! If the rub there's a few people about who can roll your arches etc to clear. I think with 15s you should be ok. Hope this helps! Ask Jamie F on here If he is still selling his coilovers as they are nearly new!

you aint gonna get 80mm on that tyre size, my old mk2 was lowered 80mm on 195/45/15s and i still had to roll the rear arches.

SLIM VR wrote:

go for it mate,if u just want a strip,i have some vwwold stickers left,£1 each so not too bad! what size rims u got now? if u are getting those exact rims then i reckon u could drop it upto 80mm wihout issues,but get a couple of the more experienced mechanically minded off here o confirm that!

Thanks, Im wanting a sun strip for the top of the windscreen so its going to be fairly big to fit the top, Like the one on the lads from skeggy! Thanks for the go ahead though i will get it made up at the weekend! n thanks for the advice everyone so what would you say about 60mm all round? to be on the safe side?

Thanks

60mm is a safe i reckon!