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Quote: Originally posted by mr grumpy on 25/5/2012

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i see you didnt mention your car insurance. have you told them as it might void your insurance. my insurance wouldnt cover mer if i used spring assisters

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Quote: Originally posted by mr grumpy on 25/5/2012

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i see you didnt mention your car insurance. have you told them as it might void your insurance. my insurance wouldnt cover mer if i used spring assisters

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I did inform my insurers, as stated above, all they were bothered about was that the car wasn't lowered.

It helped that I phoned during the day rather than during the evening so the call was not forwarded to an overseas call centre so they actually understood what I was doing. The overseas call centre were confused by the mod of a towbar, I was asked if I was adding a turbo to the car (odd as it is a Turbo Diesel already!!) & I had to be put onto a supervisor. That filled me with confidence!!!

As my car is now slightly higher, I have lost all cred with the backward baseball cap wearing group of people in the local McD's car park on a Friday night

Quote: Originally posted by Vernon on 28/5/2012

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Does anyone inform the next purchaser of their car, (dealer or private), that their car has 'modified' suspension?
I didn't, so does that mean that the purchaser of my old Mk5 Golf, (fitted with MAD springs), is driving around uninsured?
How do I know that my Rav 4 is 'standard?

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My standard springs are going back in when I sell - the buyers are not getting near on £240 worth of springs for nothing!!!

hi,

i thought about the rubber "assisters" but decided against them (due to not very favourable comments),

so I checked KYB's website (http://www.kyb-europe.com/catalogue.asp) and found that they do a "heavy duty" version of my rear springs.

So for £37 each (inc p&p) from e-bay and £25 for my mechanic to fit, i have new heavy duty rear springs.

As they are a direct replacement for my 110,000 mile saggy originals, who whould know?

I'll update when next out with the caravan (next holiday due august)

regards - dave

Quote: Originally posted by Vernon on 28/5/2012

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Does anyone inform the next purchaser of their car, (dealer or private), that their car has 'modified' suspension?
I didn't, so does that mean that the purchaser of my old Mk5 Golf, (fitted with MAD springs), is driving around uninsured?
How do I know that my Rav 4 is 'standard?

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These are very good questions.

The same can be aked of other less obvious modifications like re-mapping. From the people I've spoken to it does seem to be a bit of a grey area. Proving anything one way or the other is going to be hard in most cases.

After the first tow return to Dorset I can say that the new springs have improved the car significantly.

The car sat perfectly level & was very stable. I will go as far as to say the car is now more stable than the significantly heavier Peugeot 4007 4x4 I had before the Mondeo. The ride / handling solo have no detrimental effects so they have been £230 or so well spent.

The car sits just under 1" higher when unladen, but for me that is a small price to pay as previously I had towbar scraping even when the caravan was not attached.

Quote: Originally posted by Grampian91 on 11/6/2012Zafiral. You just need to fit some 135x12 tyres on the front and paint flames down the side for that perfect 70's jacked up retro look.

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:)

Keep it loaded up for a few miles the springs may settle back the normal ride height.

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