I want to go lower...

MrSix

MrSix

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Every time I look at my car I want to make it sit just a bit lower...then I'd be totally happy with how it looks...

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I've not got spare cash to do it at the mo, plus I don't want to spend money on coilovers so lowering springs would be the way forward. Then I've got to problem of extra stress on the dampers so they'd need replacing and blah blah :(
 
You did notice that it HAS been lowered in the big pic and that the little pic in the corner is as it is now.
 
Jez said:
It looks as though it is missing equipment from the front? Big black plastic bits?

Also the rims look quite small?
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They're vents, the one on the side nearest the camera is where my cold air feed runs from. All mk4 golfs except the R32 have them.

The rims are 16" and they're nice and light, any bigger and handling and performance would start to be compromised.
 
You have thought Penski, with how much he harps on about how peoples cars are on stilts...but he doesn't even drive. So who knows?
 
Booner! said:
And mine are too big :P



So you sprayed them? looks funky... but I would be embarrassed doing it to my Golf especially with my small brakes showing through the wheels! :D
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Painted them with caliper paint, just gives it a bit more detail :)
 
Booner! said:
Did you take the wheels off and brakes apart?.... not that I am considering it... *whistles* :p
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Why not, you don't need to have AP Racing 6 pots to warrant different coloured brakes. You'd do well to ignore half of the high horsed, snobby shart that gets posted here and just do what you want.
For example I have a 'base spec', 'over priced', 'wallowy barge' of a car with 'godawful wheels' that I look at when it's just been cleaned and think - yeah, I like that a lot :) and I don't give a rats arse what anybody else thinks because it's not their car, so they can take a long hike off a short cliff if they don't like it.

To paint the calipers I just did it while they were on the car, whipped the wheel off and painted carefully.

P.S - The four wheels, with almost new 205/55/16 Michelin Pilot Sport II's cost me £70 and weigh about a third of the weight of my standard 185 width 15" steelies.
 
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[TW]Fox;11236950 said:
Work part time at Uni but amassed savings when I was working full time as well.
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Lies.

He blew his student loan on it and got his mum to make him sarnies for uni instead.
 
Gaijin said:
:confused: Have I missed something here? If it came between having crap tyres or not driving at all, I'd have crap tyres all day long. Just because they are crap does not mean they will try to kill you at every available corner/junction. Just take it into consideration and drive carefully.

If they were really that bad then they wouldn't be legal.

I guess I should have sorn'd my 306 because the brakes weren't even half as good as my VTI then.



Lifes great when you still live at home ;) You can afford great tyres and everything. Living away from home is expensive on a stupendous scale.



As much as I hate a lot of the photos of tripe Penski posts on here, just because he doesn't drive at the moment doesn't mean he isn't entitled to his opinions on car styling.



Further to the above, he does drive, his car is SORN'd at the moment and he stopped driving temporarily to get other elements of his life in order. I can't imagine not having a car, but I do understand what he has done.



Agreed, I don't have any fancy Brembo or AP setup, and my calipers are stock. They are pretty good brakes and the calipers look better painted than road-crud dark grey .

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Even when dirty, flaky and with a colour that doesn't complement the wheels, they look better than stock. They are overdue a repaint but I don't know what colour will complement the Rays goodness (*fap*)
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I want your car Gaijin :(
 
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