How Low Should I Go

[alpineau]

Hi Guys

I was reading a thread about people lowering their cars and thought well i might have a crack at it my self. I guess what i want to know is i will be putting a full ts50 kit on my car in the near future. So for general driving around would Super Lows be ok or would i be better going for Lows. The Car has 18"s on it and i would like to keep these when i put the kit on. My biggest fear is making the car to low for when i put the kit on it

Any advice would be greatly appricated

Pics of the car ATM







Cheers
Alpineau

[Mark351]

Depends what you want to tell your insurance company!

[Fairlane]

Looks alright, people seem to get away with SL's, youd have to ditch the wheel spats and all that. Unless you do loads of rural driving or have a hilly driveaway, SL's should be fine even with the kit, remember lows are the roughly the same as the stock Tickford setup.

*Great to see another Organza AU being modded as well

[alpineau]

DeathXR Depends what you want to tell your insurance company!

If need be i would change insurance companies, I am with aami atm not to sure what there like with mods. I will have to make a few calls tomorrow, see what they say.

[nat_daly]

aami is crap ..only two mods allowed..
i had to go with just car insurance.. its not too expensive..

[Bucknaked]

I'm switching to the NRMA. They are more expensive than my current insurer, but with NRMA i can have as many mods as I want, whereas now, 2 mods only

[XITED_6]

2 1/2" all round

[AWD Chaser]

How about this low (rear):

[JeffAU1]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

I'm switching to the NRMA. They are more expensive than my current insurer, but with NRMA i can have as many mods as I want, whereas now, 2 mods only

NRMA - u can have pretty much any mods u like but remember u cant lower it by more than 30mm at any point, and other than that u can do pretty much what u want as long as they know about it and it fits in wih RTA specs.

GIO - is similar as well but for each mod your excess is increased by $100.

*But best always to check first just incase.

[AWD Chaser]

NRMA - stock standard - perfect driving history, car = $15,200, 20 years old - $1200 per year

Just cars - moded - perfect driving history, car = $15,200, 20 years old - LSD, tints, towbar, massive suspension work, floor mats, wood grain, baby seat, and gas if and when I fit it - $1300

May as well be honest and go with just cars, plus I THINK you get the free driver training course....

[black ute]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

I'm switching to the NRMA. They are more expensive than my current insurer, but with NRMA i can have as many mods as I want, whereas now, 2 mods only

NRMA will only let you have 8 inch wide rims. They cancelled my policy when
saw i had 10's and the ute was lowered 2" fr, 2.5" r.

They also wouldn't insure a bloke at work because the BF Goodrich all terrains
he had on his hilux, bought over the net from U.S, had their size written on the side walls in inches.

Better to find out before they don't pay up!

[HLC]

Originally Posted by au3 chaser

NRMA - stock standard - perfect driving history, car = $15,200, 20 years old - $1200 per year

Just cars - moded - perfect driving history, car = $15,200, 20 years old - LSD, tints, towbar, massive suspension work, floor mats, wood grain, baby seat, and gas if and when I fit it - $1300

May as well be honest and go with just cars, plus I THINK you get the free driver training course....

NRMA - stock, tarnished history (write off/neg driving) car = 17k, 18 years old... $1400 ;)

through my parents name of course :dr_Evil: :




just cars wanted 3 grand from me.

[alpineau]

Hi All

Thanks for the replys, I did a bit me reading and i think i will go with SL all round. Will my car have enough clearance for general driving around town with out hitting everthing. The car is sitting on 18" rims.

As for insurance i will make a few calls now and see what i come up with

Cheers
Alpineau

[BJMXR]

Just be aware that with SSL on my rears the shocks became Completely useless after about 7,000 km, i should have done shocks and springs as opposed to just springs in the first place. You may need short throw shocks if your factory ones begin playing up. However with SL, you might be OK. I now have Koni Yellow fully adjustable and King SL and SSL (rear) and its awesome... sensational...

Either way, your car will look great a bit lower... it does need it.

Good luck!

[RedXF_Mont]

GO SL's

[loxxr6]

Originally Posted by black ute

NRMA will only let you have 8 inch wide rims. They cancelled my policy when
saw i had 10's and the ute was lowered 2" fr, 2.5" r.

They also wouldn't insure a bloke at work because the BF Goodrich all terrains
he had on his hilux, bought over the net from U.S, had their size written on the side walls in inches.

Better to find out before they don't pay up!

Their wheel/tyre guidelines have recently changed. If your licencing authority eg RTA, is happy with it, then they are.

Thanks for the replys, I did a bit me reading and i think i will go with SL all round. Will my car have enough clearance for general driving around town with out hitting everthing. The car is sitting on 18" rims.

Sounds like a plan. I have these and I manage to clear most under car obstacles no probs.

[Stav]

Originally Posted by loxxr6

Their wheel/tyre guidelines have recently changed. If your licencing authority eg RTA, is happy with it, then they are.



Sounds like a plan. I have these and I manage to clear most under car obstacles no probs.

I discovered the same thing some months ago. You can go to rta website which has details of all of these issues.I was lucky as my mods were logged by my insurer prior to the changes.

[GK]

I'm obviously going to be the odd man out here but here I go anyway!

I really like the look of your car right now, but if lowering, I would go Lows.

If and when I do my SR, I'll be going with Lows.

All the best with it.

GK