David's 406 (belgium) my car a bit lower

[lambo]

I must say,im likeing the rear light action

Aint seen any like that before and always good to see a fellow tarmac scrapping 406 on here

Keep up the good work fella

[Blue406]

Lowering a car is just silly.
It makes it VERY prone to grounding out and the bumpers getting damaged. As you've found out yourself.

I don't get people who lower their cars AND put low slung bodykits on. (General comment, not directed at this thread)

[steve_earwig]

Lowering seems a bit nuts to me too, although I mustard mitt it can look good.

[mjb]

Lowering a car is just silly.

On the roads, a big car like the '6 absolutely must have decent ground clearance for speedbumps, hills and car parks. Gawd knows how many times I've crunched my standard '6s while crawling in and out of multistorey carparks. The exhaust scrapes in the centre I can live with because there's plenty of play there, but there's a lot of places I scrape the front bumper where the change in gradient is just too much for the 406's massive overhang. People who lower 406s for general road use in this country are idiots.

I do however disagree with your blanket statement - I'd probably get seasick driving a '6 round a track without lowered and stiffened suspension. Lowering has its places, but with the 406 those places are very limited

[Blue406]

Lowering a car is just silly.

On the roads, a big car like the '6 absolutely must have decent ground clearance for speedbumps, hills and car parks. Gawd knows how many times I've crunched my standard '6s while crawling in and out of multistorey carparks. The exhaust scrapes in the centre I can live with because there's plenty of play there, but there's a lot of places I scrape the front bumper where the change in gradient is just too much for the 406's massive overhang. People who lower 406s for general road use in this country are idiots.

I do however disagree with your blanket statement - I'd probably get seasick driving a '6 round a track without lowered and stiffened suspension. Lowering has its places, but with the 406 those places are very limited

Lowering a track car is one thing.
I was talking about normal road cars. The ones people use day in and day out.

[David406]

@lambo, thanks...

@blue406, lowering a car is silly? no way.....

today i tried to attain a street but...
the large problem of 2.2hdi sits in the way...







grtz
David

[DaiRees]

....and that's why lowering a car for everyday use is silly.

[mjb]

That's nothing compared to the speed bumps we get in the UK. The main types are kerb-to-kerb bumps about 1 foot wide and around 3 inches high. These are no problem. Then there's the ones like you've posted which are a pain because we don't get massive ramps leasing up and down - the ramp is usually about a foot long, so your front wheels are completely clear before your back wheels hit the ramp. Taking these at speed means you will scrape the exhaust on a 406 with standard suspension.

The 3rd type we have here are the worst. They're raised squares in the road - usually 1 square in the middle of the road and one in each lane. Usually the 406 has the wheelbase to drive straight over them without problem, but some are high enough to take your exhaust off if you don't carefully position yourself to drive on top of 2 squares, which you need to do at a slower-than-walking pace. It's not rare to see exhaust parts lying in the road

[teamster1975]

The 3rd type we have here are the worst. They're raised squares in the road - usually 1 square in the middle of the road and one in each lane. Usually the 406 has the wheelbase to drive straight over them without problem, but some are high enough to take your exhaust off if you don't carefully position yourself to drive on top of 2 squares, which you need to do at a slower-than-walking pace. It's not rare to see exhaust parts lying in the road

Ah yes. My personal favourite. I had my local garage make up a hanger for the middle section of the zorst because I kept scraping it on these. I don't know whether it had been fitted incorrectly in the car's past but I only had a couple of inches ground clearance and the bloody thing scraped on every speed hump no matter how I negotiated them. Luckily the collector wasn't perforated, it just had bad road rash. As good as gold now though!

[steve_earwig]

There's loads of those raised squares in Hackney, the BXs used to clear them without a problem, no exhaust damage, not even a bump

[DaiRees]

I personally find that too much speed on type 2 results in whacking the front bumper on the ground on "landing". Had 2 really big thuds doing this, luckily both were works cars

[pugsport]

After switching from an MI16 4x4 to a 406 I was appaled by the suspension, too much body roll (for my style of driving),
like being on a boat, poor handling round corners at speed.
Lowering can be a pain with speedhumps, but I can put up with that and if you are careful and crawl over them there's no damage. Grip is great I take the sharpest bends at speed and she don't twitch, like it's on rails.

[pugsport]

After switching from an MI16 4x4 to a 406 I was appaled by the suspension, too much body roll (for my style of driving),
like being on a boat, poor handling round corners at speed.
Lowering can be a pain with speedhumps, but I can put up with that and if you are careful and crawl over them there's no damage. Grip is great I take the sharpest bends at speed and she don't twitch, like it's on rails.

[jimmartin1]

Coilovers?!?! Money, Money, Money