lowering..

This is an easy one. You want it lowered, but want to still have reasonable use of the carrying capacity. Pallet of engineering brick slid right in through the tailgate will soon have it lower than a particularly devious snake's 'nads.

I'll get me coat......

:-)

hydrulics? :)

Hacksaw? :-)

Tim..

I'm not at all convinced you'd get any actual benefit from lowering it. Handling wise, I mean.

Front, yes, low and twitchy front might be tighter and more responsive, but it is an estate. Also, a slack back axle is usually good handling on a RWD. As yours is a 4x4 I would worry about dropping the front too much.

If you want to have more stablity at high speed, lowering the chassis / body makes sense, this isn't your current problem? More control at normal speeds on rough roads / hard cornering, you want harder springs, they don't have to lower the car at all. The self-levelling ones gave you the ability to load huge quantities of Beer in the boot without it sagging under the weight. A good feature in an estate.

I like low :)

Those links might not work, blame Ronny :)

What you need is lower height but harder springs. Kills two birds with one stone. And your kidneys every time you go over a bump.

Fraser

In news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Fraser Johnston decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Heh, indeed it does, but it also destroys ride quality. The Koni set up on the G plate 4x4 was a good compromise, I might enquire as to whether BBR do springs for the estate. The suspension set up on Ye Olde Cossie was mainly BBR and it worked well.. Phone call to 'em tomorrow methinks..

now take pics of your fat ass outta the car :)

Suspension is all about compromise. Easy solution is to have a comfy car and a race car. ; )

Fraser