ok i know i will get a few people saying dont do this but anyway hear goes can some one tell me how much one coil cut of lowers the car or how much coil cut of lowers the car by if that makes sence
cheers

 

If i was you i would just buy some lowering springs you will properly get a full set for less than 100quid.

 

i have my reasons for doing it!
plus im saveing for a set of coilovers and wanted the front to sit lower in my wide arches as their is about a 6inch gape at the mo

 

It's different for every car really, there are many variables such as spring rate and how many dead colls your springs have etc....

I'd start by cutting two coils off, see how it sits. I've cut four coils off my mk3, it's very low but the ride and handling is excellent

There is an excellent 'how-to' guide in Practical Performance Car' magazine this month (October issue), I recommend buying it and it well tell you exactly how to do it if your unsure. Also reccomend all those people who say 'it's unsafe to cut springs!' read it aswell

 

It is dangerous no matter what some farty little mag says + you won't pass an MOT with them like it anyway.. END OF!

 

Of course it will pass an MOT you retard!
Jesus wept

 

if the spring is loose when jacked up for mot it is a fail as it wont seat correctly when put back down, and could come unseated on the road, all depends if you know the tester though!!

 

Yes I am the retard that used to work at an MOT garage and we FAILED cars with chopped springs you bodging cunt

 

drill a couple of holes and metal cable tie the springs down once chopped and they will pass an mot as they dont fall out when jacked up ....

 

It's one thing to cut a little of a spring's coil, and another mather to cut several coils to the point where the spring doesn't even stay at its correct place.

 

Why not just wait till you have the money buy the coilovers and do it properly surely you aint in that much of a rush to lower the car Fucked if id want to drive round in a car thats had the standard springs cut

 

Exactly right
That's where people get confused.

Nick, if you failed a car for "having cut springs" then it's a good job you aren't an MOT tester anymore, cos that isn't a fail is it.
If you failed said cars for the springs bieng loose in the cups/not seated correctly etc then that's a different thing entirely.
Saying "all cut springs R bad" just because you've seen some badly done/cut too short is plain retarded.

TBH unless Ripspeed re-packages an angle grinder as a "Special spring cutting tool" and charged you twice the money you'll always think that cutting springs is dangerous, regardless of what basic engineering and logic states

 

It IS a fail... you clearly know nothing END OF!

 

Cutting your factory springs will result in spring rates that are impossible to determine.

 

end of what

just dont cut the fucker, theres no point. wait till you get the new ones in.

 

blimey this caused some arguments!

 

not this old nutshell again.

I haven't read any of the above, but in a nutshell......you're a fucking rough cunt if you do......the car will be dangerous to drive especially heaven laden, and it'll be an MOT failure if the springs come unseated with the vehicle suspended in the air.

I have heard stories of people using cable ties to keep the springs in position so they re-seat properly, how true it is i don't know.

Above all........its a bodge and you know it.

You'd probably be safer to heat the springs up and squash them down a bit if you're too tight to buy some proper ones