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raked look with H&R sports?

zef

zef

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Installed H&R sports over the weekend (amongst other things). All the research I did indicated it was a level drop. I got about a 1 tight finger gap in the front and 2 loose finger gap in the rear. It's quite a difference. The fronts are also quite a bit lower than I anticipated. It's almost tucking tire.

Note that I did also swap in B6 passat spindles, but nothing I researched indicated that would affect ride height. I did see indications that there were 4dr/2dr dsg/6spd differences in springs, but nowhere does H&R indicate separate part numbers for our car.. they all state the same part #.

Any suggestions?

 
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jebusfreek666

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zef said:
Installed H&R sports over the weekend (amongst other things). All the research I did indicated it was a level drop. I got about a 1 tight finger gap in the front and 2 loose finger gap in the rear. It's quite a difference. The fronts are also quite a bit lower than I anticipated. It's almost tucking tire.

Note that I did also swap in B6 passat spindles, but nothing I researched indicated that would affect ride height. I did see indications that there were 4dr/2dr dsg/6spd differences in springs, but nowhere does H&R indicate separate part numbers for our car.. they all state the same part #.

Any suggestions?

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Drive it a bit, and let them settle.
 
zef

zef

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jebusfreek666 said:
Drive it a bit, and let them settle.
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Fair enough. I guess I was skeptical that they would settle out that much, but I suppose time will tell.
 
kerp

kerp

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Tony48 said:
I have H&R sport springs on my 6MT GTI (slightly lighter transmission than DSG). I certainly have rake but it isn't that bad. Less significant than your picture. Looking through old pics, here's the best ones I could find to show my rake (not great pictures for this purpose, sorry). Hopefully yours settles in closer to mine.
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Sorry for getting off topic, but did those OEM mud flaps scrape all day? I'm stock height and about to move to VWR springs, already have a torn one haha. Got some lowered Rokblokz cheap I'm switching to, but was just curious.
 
MK6NGT

MK6NGT

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I have almost the exact same car. I'm curious, are there springs that don't drop it that low? I'm also curious to see where the car settles, I wouldn't imagine it settles and brings the car up at all in the front but I don't have experience with suspension on these cars.
 
kerp

kerp

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MK6NGT said:
I have almost the exact same car. I'm curious, are there springs that don't drop it that low? I'm also curious to see where the car settles, I wouldn't imagine it settles and brings the car up at all in the front but I don't have experience with suspension on these cars.
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Common favorites are DG and VWR springs. DG will be more conservative with the drop opposed to the VWR. May also be a tad more comfortable. Both are designed to work with the stock suspension components, but many people like to pair them up with Koni or Bilstein shocks/ struts.

I absolutely love the look of these springs, but had to compromise between aesthetics and my demands for the car.
 
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Mk6_vic

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Yea let them settle bud. They should even a bit out more. I remember the first time I saw that I was like what the hell did I do lol.

I run Neuspeed sport with bilstein shocks/struts. A decent drop but not as low as h&r ss.
 
MK6NGT

MK6NGT

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kerp said:
Common favorites are DG and VWR springs. DG will be more conservative with the drop opposed to the VWR. May also be a tad more comfortable. Both are designed to work with the stock suspension components, but many people like to pair them up with Koni or Bilstein shocks/ struts.

I absolutely love the look of these springs, but had to compromise between aesthetics and my demands for the car.
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Great info, thanks!
 
Tony48

Tony48

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kerp said:
Sorry for getting off topic, but did those OEM mud flaps scrape all day? I'm stock height and about to move to VWR springs, already have a torn one haha. Got some lowered Rokblokz cheap I'm switching to, but was just curious.
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Front mud flaps scrape when going over almost all speed bumps. I take it slow and haven't had a problem. They don't look torn up. If I was any lower I would remove them.

Rear flaps never scrape.
 
GTIMKV20

GTIMKV20

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with DSG you definitely get the raked look with H&R Sports. I ended up swapping back to DG springs for this reason.
 
damagi123

damagi123

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i think rake looks cool
 
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