Driving a lowered car: our driving tips on the subject!

Thomas Wachsmuth 27 April 2021 Tips, products, information & Co.

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The question, how to properly drive a lowered car, of course you can not answer blanket. But there are at least a few Tips and Tricksthat can help prevent unsightly scratches on the aprons and side skirts. And damage to the underbody can also be avoided with the right driving style. Our tips are especially for vehicles with a coilover/ thread springs suitable. Has one in the vehicle Airride air suspension built in or that standard air suspension changed, then a lifting of the body at the push of a button, and thus an almost unchanged driving compared to the series, is of course possible. The same applies to vehicles with a Lift kit for lifting the front axle. Even with such a system, driving that is reasonably suitable for everyday use is feasible. But what if the vehicle has a coilover kit, for example is significantly lower?

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the right (diagonal) angle helps

For example, if you come out of a parking garage from above, the exit helps not reallybut like this schräg as possible. As a result, the front apron emerges with the possibly installed spoiler not directly and with full broadside. The transition from the exit to the road is when you exit at an angle significantly less steep and damage can be avoided. Of course, an angled extension is only possible if the space and also the Traffic allow. In addition, one should not forget any Curbs, which are particularly installed on the right and left when exiting parking garages. The inclined extension is of no use if you are rumbling over a curb at the same time. The same applies, of course, to one entrance with such an angle. "back

steep crests and the subsoil

If you drive out of an underground car park, the exit usually leads over a steep and often very short one Knoll. Vehicles with a long wheelbase in particular run the risk of touching the underbody. Again, the top can help as weird as possible to run over. In this way, contact with the sub-floor can be minimized or, at best, even completely prevented. Of course, the possibility always depends on the space available for the entrance / exit. If possible you should use parking garages with a lowered vehicle generally avoid. "back

the unpopular potholes

Of course, there is hardly any other way than the best possible Driving around the potholes. Of course you have to pay attention to the other road users. You can only use the other lane if no vehicle comes towards you. And on lanes with two lanes in one direction, traffic is essential behind your own vehicle to be observed. Is an evasive action due to the traffic situation not possible, so it applies with "careful braking“To do as little damage as possible. Here, too, it is essential to keep an eye on the vehicle behind your own. Nothing is worse than a lowered vehicle that slams on the brakes at every pothole and drives the driver behind to despair or even into one collision drives. "back

Brake bumps & speed bumps

Often these can be found in parking lots, in play streets and in traffic-calmed areas. The brake bumps & speed bumps can be made Plastic be there integrated into the asphalt or also, for example raised with stones. Either way, they are an obstacle for a lowered vehicle. Again, this is the best option the oblique run over the brake hill, insofar as the traffic allows it. Are right of the roadway Parking is present, the threshold usually extends not into this. Is one such parking facility not used, it may also be possible to drive around the parking threshold directly. Not at full speed, of course, but with greatly reduced speed. Here, too, it is important to always keep an eye on the traffic behind the vehicle and especially next to it. "back

Blow-ups / road bumps

In addition to potholes, there are often so-called blow-ups that lead to real Ski jumps and are mostly caused by heat. But also Pad change and poorly repaired road damage can result in such a rough transition. Also Manhole cover are often such a problem. Depending on the situation, the speed limit and of course depending on the vehicle, this may also be the case here inclined driving over a good way to prevent damage. Is an evasion not possible so should also be here careful braking be tried.

Of course, it is the traffic that counts behind your own vehicle to keep an eye on. If there is no other vehicle behind it, one can also heavy braking be accepted. In no case should one stop braking while driving over the bumpt sustained. On the one hand, the load distribution caused by braking ensures that the front plunges even deeper and even greater damage can occur; on the other hand, the shock is significantly harder and therefore counterproductive for the vehicle. "back

Curbs and parking

Not only for lowered vehicles, but for everyone, curbs are usually a disaster. Here you should in any case avoid contact and also just running over it lowered Make places. If it cannot be avoided, there is also one here start off slowly and as diagonally as possible possibly helpful. When parking forwards, this is particularly important front spoiler to consider and yourself not on the parking sensors to leave. Normally, they do not perceive the survey.

The same applies to parking backward. Lowered vehicles can use the Rear apron / diffuser / exhaust system (depending on the overhang from the car) possibly touch down on a curb. Often only a second person helps, or the laborious step out of the car, checking and driving on. Other road users should of course not affected by getting out 5 times and checking how much space is still available. If you are not sure whether the parking space fits, then you should better another looking. "back

central lane elevation

Often, especially on small roads or country lanes, the Much higher in the middle of the road than the right and left lanes. The front apron and the underbody in particular run the risk of being damaged. Insofar as the road conditions allow it, you should try with the left half of the vehicle on the survey to drive and with the right side of the vehicle slightly on the right edge of the road. So there is no risk of damaging the vehicle. Of course, this is only possible if the space and the traffic situation allow it. "back

Driving a lowered car: our driving tips on the subject!

Workshop & lifting platform

Even a lowered vehicle has to go to the workshop from time to time. To successfully get onto the lift, there is special lifting platforms for lowered vehicles, there are various Drive-up aids and some vehicles are also available with a so-called Jack mode fitted. This lifts the body by a few centimeters and enables the arms of the lift to be brought to the points provided. Special attention should be paid here to retrofitting side skirts give. Often these prevent proper lifting over the OEM jacking points, as they sit lower and interfere. Here it is important to get creative or the vehicle center to raise. "back

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