Lowering Springs
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Richard Knight
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Hi
030 is the prefix for the "sports suspension" option. This option includes ,10mm shorter springs, uprated anti roll bars and stiffer shock absorbers.
It effectively lowers your car by 10mm and gives you better road holding/body control. But you sacrifice ride comfort in doing so.
I have this option on my MY2001 S . I have also had even shorter progressive springs fitted as well. So my car sits about 30-35mm lower than standard.
It does not like multi story car park ramps, speed humps etc.
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Food for thought!! Cheers Richard.
030 is the prefix for the "sports suspension" option. This option includes ,10mm shorter springs, uprated anti roll bars and stiffer shock absorbers.
It effectively lowers your car by 10mm and gives you better road holding/body control. But you sacrifice ride comfort in doing so.
I have this option on my MY2001 S . I have also had even shorter progressive springs fitted as well. So my car sits about 30-35mm lower than standard.
It does not like multi story car park ramps, speed humps etc.
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Food for thought!! Cheers Richard.
Guest
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Thanks for the advice.
The look of the lowered car is great - much more purposeful. The ride on my 03 S with 18" wheels is already firm, but as our mileage is quite low I think I could stand it a bit hasher still. But as for the speedbumps - when I was out today I found myself in a one way street looking straight at a line of bumps ahead - What would I have done with the lowered car????[8|]
Julian
The look of the lowered car is great - much more purposeful. The ride on my 03 S with 18" wheels is already firm, but as our mileage is quite low I think I could stand it a bit hasher still. But as for the speedbumps - when I was out today I found myself in a one way street looking straight at a line of bumps ahead - What would I have done with the lowered car????[8|]
Julian
Richard Knight
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Speed bumps must be taken very slowly and at an angle. It's ramps in confined spaces that present the real problem. That is to say a ramp where you can't enter or exit the ramp from an angle. I don't find that it's the middle/under side of the car that catches, it is the nose of the car and The lowest part just in front of the front wheels. I think I'm already on my 4th set of front wind deflectors and I've just had to have the right hand side radiator ducts( lots of inter fitting plastic bits and bobs) replaced for the fist time.
It's not a major drama to avoid tight multi story car parks etc and I've not found a speed bump that I've not been able to safely negotiate yet.
I think the benefits far out weigh the negatives.
I took her out for a 3 hour blast up into the mountains yesterday afternoon. Top down , woolly hat the works! The Italian job on acid. Pure magic.....
Richard.
It's not a major drama to avoid tight multi story car parks etc and I've not found a speed bump that I've not been able to safely negotiate yet.
I think the benefits far out weigh the negatives.
I took her out for a 3 hour blast up into the mountains yesterday afternoon. Top down , woolly hat the works! The Italian job on acid. Pure magic.....
Richard.
Guest
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I had the Sports Kit on my 1997 2.5 US import. The salesman convinced me I wouldn't need it on my 2003 S because it was already lower than the standard car. I'm sorry I listened. Hard braking especialy over humback bridges causes the nose to bottom out far too often for my liking. It means I have to adjust my driving much more than when I had the sports suspension.
The new adjustable suspension seems like the answer. My wife has air in her KN S and I love it.
The new adjustable suspension seems like the answer. My wife has air in her KN S and I love it.
dawn lang
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Interesting - I know it's horses for courses and what suits the individual, but whilst I loved my 2.7 which was fitted with Sports Suspension, my bottom/back were in heaven when I finally sat in my 3.2 and drove it minus the 030 option!
Personally I found it a little too hard - perhaps something to do with the mixture of the lower suspension and 18" wheels! [8D]
Personally I found it a little too hard - perhaps something to do with the mixture of the lower suspension and 18" wheels! [8D]
I have just bought a 550 Aniv Boxster S and it has I think lowered susp and comes as standard with 18 " I find it very firm compared to my 993 and after a longish journey have to move my bum about the seat to get comfy { no I don't have a big bum before anyone ask's ][
] it tends to transfer noises into the car with the hood up as the chassis flexes is this normal on a cab as this is the first one I have owned.
Brian
] it tends to transfer noises into the car with the hood up as the chassis flexes is this normal on a cab as this is the first one I have owned.Brian
This is a comment I would like to understand better: If you are braking after the bridge (so the car is effectively decsending on its suspension which is presumably why it bottoms under hard braking) then there must be a second hazard immediately beyond the bridge for which a lower speed is needed when you approached the first hazard, i.e. the bridge. If you cannot see over the bridge to plan for the second hazard then maybe the bridge is taken at the wrong speed?
I don't understand how the scenario arises otherwise.
I'm curious about what way you are adjusting your driving?
Andrew
Carl.Young
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Bottoms out? I have an S on 18" wheels / standard suspension and tend to be positively airborn (and in fits of laughter) over a particularly tall crest near where I live. I've not bottomed the car yet. The only time I've found anything wanting in body control tends to be at very high speeds. On private roads of course. [
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Guest
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"I'm curious about what way you are adjusting your driving? "
I'll rephrase my comments.
When I drive hard and fast the nose of my "S" with regular suspension bottoms out far more often than did my 2.5 with sports suspension.
I therefore have to moderate my driving to a degree. I particularly notice this problem when driving hard on twisties in France.
The solution seems to me to be adjustable suspension as on my wifes KN. A degree of comfort for cruising and around town and hard stiff suspension for the twisty bits.
I'll rephrase my comments.
When I drive hard and fast the nose of my "S" with regular suspension bottoms out far more often than did my 2.5 with sports suspension.
I therefore have to moderate my driving to a degree. I particularly notice this problem when driving hard on twisties in France.
The solution seems to me to be adjustable suspension as on my wifes KN. A degree of comfort for cruising and around town and hard stiff suspension for the twisty bits.
b3sun, thanks, understand better.
Perhaps Porsche should take a look at the set up on the "S" in question. My mk 1 2.7 with standard suspension has never bottomed, not even round the Alpine route at Milbrook where there are also some pretty nasty NVH testing strips as well as rapid changes in gradient. I've driven a mk 2 S across some of the roads in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk and didn't notice any errant behaviour. I'm guessing some of those fenn roads are similar to those you mention in France.
Sounds like you might have favoured PASM in retrospect?
Andrew
Perhaps Porsche should take a look at the set up on the "S" in question. My mk 1 2.7 with standard suspension has never bottomed, not even round the Alpine route at Milbrook where there are also some pretty nasty NVH testing strips as well as rapid changes in gradient. I've driven a mk 2 S across some of the roads in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk and didn't notice any errant behaviour. I'm guessing some of those fenn roads are similar to those you mention in France.
Sounds like you might have favoured PASM in retrospect?
Andrew
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