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umarulez
9th May 2007, 21:58
my local garage quoted me £100 to fit springs and lower torsion bar. He said he will lower it by counting the no. of threads on each side and make equal.

I dont think this is the right method.

What are the disadvantages of this method? im going 40mm low
CampDavid
9th May 2007, 22:03
Advantage: It's easy

Disadvantage: It'll fuck your beam right up

Avoid
Apz1
9th May 2007, 22:05
whats your beam?
CampDavid
9th May 2007, 22:12
rear beam, it's your rear axel basically
Simpson_Sax
9th May 2007, 22:12
Well i got mine lowered the other way but it seems to rattle on massive pot holes and cobels, not sure why?
CampDavid
9th May 2007, 22:12
(I know it's not technically an axel, but you know what I mean)
CampDavid
9th May 2007, 22:13
Well i got mine lowered the other way but it seems to rattle on massive pot holes and cobels, not sure why?


Knackered bearings, mounts, too low, shit dampers, not uprated the torsion bars etc etc
Apz1
9th May 2007, 22:21
y would it knacker it though... is it not precise enough?
boz
9th May 2007, 23:51
defo not the right way to do it mate. I dont know why garages fuck about doing it that way. Its just as easy to do it the right way lol.

SIMPSON_SAX: have a look at the sticky thread from williamsvts, sounds like you need to pull the rear arb in a bit, you sometimes get a nice like clinking bottles when it not pulled fully in. its easy enough to fix ;)
boz
9th May 2007, 23:52
manic motors are shit hot at doing the torsion bar and lowering your car. only take them a couple of hours, £40 to drop the rear and £40 to drop the front. Just a shame they are to far away for you lol
Apz1
10th May 2007, 17:42
why exactly is it the wrong way to do it though?
saxygjk
10th May 2007, 18:27
where is manic motors ??
Steve
10th May 2007, 19:46
where is manic motors ??

NE near sunderland, east boldon www.manicmotors.net gets people from all over uk there, did mine took 1 and a half hours!
umarulez
10th May 2007, 23:59
right i want to make the garage do it the correct way. What do i need to make sure they- pull both torsion bars out from each side?

And if the beam does fuck up, so what is wrong with that?
riggsy
11th May 2007, 00:02
Yeah make sure they pull them out, set the ride height then stick them back in.

When it has been done the wrong way, it can put alot of stress on everything causuing things to fail.

I bought my saxo already lowered and think it has been done the wrong way so that needs sorting, DOH.
liam_page
13th May 2007, 23:07
my saxo was lowered my removing the whole arb, and then smacking the rear arms off lifting them up a knotch and then refitting it all. is that the wrong way? wats wrong with this? i have had no problems yet, it was done about 2weeks ago.
Luke_vts
14th May 2007, 15:49
its been covered enough times. Use the search button first:

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74924