Lowering

[Guest]

I scrape everywhere, the downpipe bout another 1/2" lower than that aswel, i have to take real care going everywhere and yep my spine does all the work as the shocks are set to max stifness. It sits on spax coilovers 95mm drop front and 80mm rear

[D87SMW]

I scrape everywhere, the downpipe bout another 1/2" lower than that aswel, i have to take real care going everywhere and yep my spine does all the work as the shocks are set to max stifness. It sits on spax coilovers 95mm drop front and 80mm rear

I just took all the wheels off my car. Proper slammed it.

Seriously though, I'd hate to think I'd ballsed my car up and made it harder or unbearable to drive on already very bad roads. Austin/Rover models are actually very comfortable and already offer very good compromise between ride and handling.

Do you intend to take either of them on a track?

[Guest]

in the distant future the punto may be tracked, but in june its going to nurburgring which will be funny. Am looking at sticking a custom 1.4 t-jet engine running bout 250bhp

but the maestro just my little runabout and agreed are soo cumfortable

[Jumturbo]

Fatboy, which top spring cup do you use on the front. Do you completely discard the old top cup assembly and use maybe golf? Also, as the golf front springs are narrower in diameter, how do they sit in the standard front shock? Or should I say, how do the adjusters sit in the standard shock?
The kit arrived today and looks excellent. Even if I only get the rears to work, it's still excellent value. Can't believe they're sent free delivery too, weigh a ton!

Hey, Bedworth, it's now wonder your parents wont let you lower the Maestro. For a car 'that low' the insurance must be 'sky high'. Your parents will have to re-mortgage their house! Maybe they'll come round if you explain that Maestro kits will only take you down
2", not 8!

[Guest]

i'm gonna use the maestro top cups on the front because thats all i got at the moment,i'm fitting the fronts tomorrow afternoon after work

the bag with all the orings is to pad out the alloy sleeve around the standard shock and the big rubber washers go either end of the spring,mine didnt come with the grub screws to secure the alloy sleeve but i'll be fitting them tommorow ,perks of my job

i'm on the look out for some big flat washers to replace the top cups on the rear so the spring fits better and will do the same with the fronts

i've fitted the rears in this order
o rings to pad out shock
alloy sleeve
flat nut on the bottom and the raised centre nut on top
rubber spring washer
spring
rubber spring washer
plastic cup
maestro top cup
rubber mount with steel insert
nut
rubber mount
washer
nut

they really are a bargain and im sure you could fit them to alot of other cars with a similar suspension set up to ours

[Jumturbo]

Thanks Fatboy, post some pics up to give a better idea!

[countrydude]

Thanks Fatboy, post some pics up to give a better idea!

I would appreciate that! The list fatboy gave seems very long. If I can get a set that would sort out the maestro, no more grazing speed bumps. Some roads are no go areas atm!

[Guest]

fitted the fronts yesterday and found the maestro top cups are to high, on the lowest setting its standard ride height

im going to get some 90mm flat washers to replace the top cups and that should give aprox 3 inch drop or i might order a golf top cup to see the difference

if it stops raining today i'll get the camera out

also fitted a different rear box yesterday to stop my ears from bleeding, i managed to burn my fingers and smack my head on the ramp within seconds ,so by 4pm i was ready for a ice cold cider

[Guest]

When I first went to that ebay link for the springs I thought 'bloody idiot'...
until I realised the Golf is such a rip-off suspension wise to the MM.

I have plenty of lowered springs and shocks so although tempted i probably won't... 'but' those screw sleeves alone should cost that price (Jum, did you get the grub screws to fix the sleeves to the shock tubes?) might tempt me just to use on a classic sports car i have that could do with the springs being lifted a tad. What dia are the sleeves?

Another reason I won't buy them for my Monty is I have the Golf anti-roll bar links, I don't want my Monty becoming a VW Monty! Thank god it's got a Honda box and not a VW one.