How Low Can You Go?

[tharindra]

Guys, my ride which I procured recently had a wrecked body kit, after much reasoning i decided to keep it on and to rebuild/repaint it...alas after about 2 days the front has more chips and cracks than i can count.....it handles speed bumps and most potholes fine, but the raised areas in petrol stations or any inclined by roads that meet the main road are a nightmare.....now i know why the previous owner didn't bother to repair it before selling it to me .....the front lip is approx 6 inches off the ground....is it too low, or is it just too weak? .... what's the lowest you can go without your bodywork suffering on our roads? anybody handling it well with the same clearance?

[SeanD]

What's the ride? Jap or Euro car? Sounds a little low for our roads. If it's just an after-market kit you might save yourself a lot of grief by just taking it off.

[tharindra]

its a bmw e30 with an after-market vortex style kit....its a love and hate relationship i have with the kit....it adds a bit of a ricer touch to the clean lines of the e30 + every time I hear the front end scrape it breaks my heart a bit, but then again it makes it look mean enough to make kids run off crying.......

[SeanD]

The e30 doesn't need no ricer kit to make the kids run off crying

[MasterDon]

I have one with a front lip about 5" off the ground.I very rarely scrape it.Though I must say that I have had the suspension stiffened a little when adding 17" alloys,so it might be that.The biggest worry for me is the side "skirts",the front goes over humps without hassle but often times the sides scrape over them and cracks up the fiber work.So I have to get it repaired and touched up every six months or so.sure it can be a pain in the ass sometimes but I would never ever even consider removing the body kit.

[tharindra]

The e30 doesn't need no ricer kit to make the kids run off crying

hehe its not much of a ricer kit mate its similar to the m-tech one you get on a M3...trust me it doubles on the meanness

I have one with a front lip about 5" off the ground.I very rarely scrape it.Though I must say that I have had the suspension stiffened a little when adding 17" alloys,so it might be that.The biggest worry for me is the side "skirts",the front goes over humps without hassle but often times the sides scrape over them and cracks up the fiber work.So I have to get it repaired and touched up every six months or so.sure it can be a pain in the ass sometimes but I would never ever even consider removing the body kit.

damn 5" is pretty low! i dont have any probs with the side skirts tho.....

[Devinda_Z]

hmmm why not get something a little more practical & subtle done like a replica Alpine b6 kit or Hartge H27 kit , if its something a little more aggressive you prefer?