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 have your springs checked first.i put spring assistors on my galaxy and make a difference to the bounce.your low profile tyres havent lowered the car the lower the profile the bigger the wheel rim.you can lower a tow ball but not raise it.you could just remove jockey wheel once hitched.

atb.neil

I have that problem too on my Merc - factory fitted lowered suspension lowering the car TOO low for towing easily.

Thought I'd left the exhaust behind last time I got on the Caen ferry 

Fortunately just a bad scraping.

Would also love to hear from amyone who's put spring assistors on to raise the suspension.

On a Bmw check the body hight to see if the springs are shot but also have a lool at the rear suspension bushes, if they fail the result will be the same with some handling issues.

If all is well you could fit normal tyres and regain the height, spring assistors will help but I sispect they are a work around.

Spring assisters won't raise the height of the springs. We used them some time ago when a car we had had lowered rear suspension and we had problems with grounding. What they do is to limit the amount the spring gets compressed - so they help in situations where suspension movement is the problem, but they won't help as much where ground clearance per se is the issue.

I was worried they would make the ride too firm when driving solo, but that didn't seem to happen.

It's also worth looking at different shock absorbers - it depends how much money you want to invest in adapting the car.

Drop plates are indeed illegal on recent cars. Even before this, they could never be used to increase the height, only to lower it.

Jim

Even though it's illegal?

Bad move

Jim