Oooh...the guilt..

retrothis

I'm new to modifying cars, infact I havent done anything to my car yet appart from getting lower profile tires onto my stock 15" non-alloy wheels and "the norht face" sticker on the boot lid.
But today I ordered a koni STR-T kit from the UK....and the guilt is killing me..I keep thinking that those 400 euro could have been better spent on the first borne (which i have) or herself. (BTW not going to do the swap myself, so the job will cost another 300 :eek:, but they will also install rear lower control arm bushings from Audi TT)..
So for all you hard core modders...does it get easyer, or should I got to church?


03 VW TDI est (PD100).

Atomic Pineapple

your screwed now, kiss goodbye to your financial security forever and welcome to the modification scene

p-nut

Why are you installing lower control arm bushings from a TT? What difference will that make?

Changing suspension isn't hard at all, give it a bash yourself, whats the worst that could happen. I'm not a mechanic but i've fitted coilovers/shocks/lowering springs to 3 of my previous cars, and will be doing it to my current car when the weather gets better

tossy

I think he means lower control arm bushings from a TT roadster the are stiffer.

Welcome to the world of spending loads of money no your car that you will never see again

The first on which i spend a shed load of money was a 100pd golf

Midnight_EG

Unless you have a spring compressor good luck, aul spring in the forehead doesn't look great these days

tossy

retrothis wrote: »

BTW not going to do the swap myself,

:rolleyes:

colm_mcm

What's the point in getting lower profile tyres on standard wheels?

retrothis

Cheers for all the replies lads.
Yes the TT bushings are firmer, solid rubber/plastic/whatever...the ones on the golf have holes in the rubber to make them more pliable.
These supposed to make the steering more responsive.
Tossy can you remember what mods did you do on your golf?

retrothis

colm_mcm wrote: »

What's the point in getting lower profile tyres on standard wheels?

The tire wall is lower thus less deflection in the corners, so its more responsive... however the speedo becomes slightly inaccurate then. Tells you that your going faster than you actually are (0.5-2 km/h a rough guess)

colm_mcm

In that case, you'd be better off upgrading to 16 or 17 inch wheels with a lower profile. low profile 15's will just look completely wrong, like they're off a Polo or something smaller. not a look you wanna go for.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

colm_mcm wrote: »

In that case, you'd be better off upgrading to 16 or 17 inch wheels with a lower profile. low profile 15's will just look completely wrong, like they're off a Polo or something smaller. not a look you wanna go for.

I had 15's on my civic with low profile tyres and it didn't look at all out of place

colm_mcm

Bryn wrote: »

I had 15's on my civic with low profile tyres and it didn't look at all out of place

This is on a Passat that comes standard with high profile tyres on 15 inch wheels.

I had 15's with 195/50/15 wheels on my old Fiats and they looked huge as the arches were so small. A Passat is a big car with big wheel arches.

Also OP, bear in mind if you're lowering the car and also fitting smaller tyres, it's gonna be very low - what happens when you load the back up?

tossy

A civic is a smaller car than a golf 15" steel wheels with low profile tyres on a golf would look funny to me.

retrothis off the top of my head i did the following

18" BBS wheels
Audi TT brakes
Koni sport kit (matched springs and shocks)
De badged - with black front and rear VW badges
New headlights
New tail lights
German plates
Mk5 rear wiper
Leather Recaro interior
TT pedals
R32 steering wheel
R32 aluminum trim
R line gear knob.
W8 interior light
Re mapped
Front and rear V6 valances
twin exhaust pipes

Thats all i can remember,it was my first car to spend a load of money on and all my money went towards 'show' rather than 'go'

Here are a few pics,i miss the diesel fuel economy

colm_mcm

I took it that it was a Passat, maybe it's a Golf. either way, fitting smaller tyres to the standard wheels will look stupid, give worse fuel economy and generally be a bad idea.

retrothis

colm_mcm wrote: »

I took it that it was a Passat, maybe it's a Golf. either way, fitting smaller tyres to the standard wheels will look stupid, give worse fuel economy and generally be a bad idea.

The standard is 195x65, i fitted 195x60, so not a huge diff in size but smaller than stock. It didn't look bad, wasn't even noticible I would think. But to be honest only noticed a tiny improvement.
But down he line hoping to get some OEM alloys, 16 or 17 hopefully. These: img.photobucket.com/.../Parts/Wheels005.jpg
Oh and its a golf estate/wagon....:rolleyes: