why has my car got very low?

[arron]

Can only have done mine at Gas mark 5 then for 20 minutes as they seem OK.

[dasadrew]

Unless you've made a boob on the struts and got ones with lowered spring seats, it's definitely the springs which are at fault. Gas shocks would have a (very slight) tendency to RAISE ride height. Non-gas shocks make no difference. Also suspension geometry differences would scarcely be measurable although theoretically possible.

Powder coating temperatures are about 200°C, but to anneal steel you need about 700°C. Let's face it, you could get up to about 100°C in the desert on a black car roof, so 200°C isn't going to melt springs!

Me reckons also that you've got the wrong springs back!

BTW, why the big rave about powder coating? I thought the only real advantage is for Industry to have no solvents in the atmosphere and be able to spray around the corners when batch painting washing machine bodies, so why go to the trouble? I'm sure your powder coaters are applying "normal" colour and not space shuttle technology!

[GAZ W]

Dasadrew

The only things i have replaced are the TCA's ,steering rack (standard item) TRE's and had the spings powder coated , i havent replaced the struts , so it could only be that the springs have shrunk or i have been given back the wrong ones.

[arron]

Dasadrew, I chose to powder coat because it was so cheap. I got a sh!t load of bits done for £60 (That's about 90 of your Euro thingies). I could not have bought the paint, brushers & cleaner for that, let alone the time plus everything is sand blasted before coating !

[dasadrew]

good answer! What's french for "Powder Coating" ?

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Le powder coating !

[dasadrew]

Aha! so in Germany it's probably "Die Powdercoating" , oder?

[dasadrew]

What a cunning linguist you are, Dave

[arron]

LOL :compress: