Increasing Corolla AE100 Ride Height

[tonyops]

Guys,

I just installed lowered spring into my AE100. Apparently, the gap between wheel and fender is only 1 finger, which is not my desired outcome. I'm looking to have a ride height of about 2 fingers. Is there any way to increase the ride height? Let me know.. Thanks!!!!

 

[vh-101]

get adjustable i think

 

[tonyops]

get adjustable i think

thanks for your suggestion, but i just took out my adjustable due to the ride comfort. the current lowered spring is comfortable, but the height is just too low for me. Go bump or inclined surface also have to be extra careful.. stressful la if drive like tat..

 

[chek_corolla]

adjustable, Titan in particular for my opinion.
Considered comfortable with fair amount of grip.

 

[lkeong88]

Why not use back stock spring?

 

[xMika]

add the coil rubber ?

 

[tonyops]

Why not use back stock spring?

stock spring is rather high. I was hoping to lover it by a little, making it look nice. But my current lower spring is just way lower than my expectations...hehehehe. Worse come to worse, maybe i'll put back the stock spring and sell off my lowered spring.

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add the coil rubber ?

What's a coil rubber???

 

[FGT]

get adjustable i think

thats right.. get a good one and "adjust" it to your preference.. Titan comes highly recommended by some of the forumers here..

 

[lkeong88]

Titan needs to send back to their shop to adjust. I send back for adjustment 6-7 times to get the balance i wanted

 

[xMika]

http://www.wilcodirect.co.uk/images/medium/products/GR-GE15_MED.jpg

Mostly people use this to increase their rides height to fit in bigger wheels ... add one of these maybe can help ...

 

[cookie]

tonyops,

what type of absorber are you using in ur ride now? If stock absorber, then you can increase the height by purchasing additional absorber rubber 'tapak' to increase ur height.

 

[Veloc]

My friend just use higher profile tyres. His front is 195/50/15. He wanted his back to be higher, so he used 195/60/15. IT works, as long as you don't mind the suddenly thicker tyres. For me, I cannot accept the looks...

 

[tonyops]

looking from ur replies, will that spring buffer actually increase the ride height???

 

[Veloc]

The spring buffers does not increase ride height. They just stiffen your spring by reducing the effective travel distance. I have been wanting to try this on my car but all those acc shops only sell for new models like vios, persona, Avanza, camry and all. Anyone know where to get this for AE100/111? Cna pls recomend to me? Thank you...

 

[tonyops]

but i think these buffers are universal fitting. they have a certain size and diameter depending on the diameter of ur coil spring. I found these spring buffer, d box there stated it can increase ride height by 3-5cm. Even in youtube (link below) also it says will increase ride height. Can someone confirm on this?? Is what's being said true??

YouTube - ‪TTC Urethane Cushion Buffer‬‏

 

[grrr]

yup, confirm. been use on my front absr, ride hide will increase & ur spring a bit stiff.

 

[D7zul]

the buffer just increase a lil bit only.. not even a finger after a week..

if u want, u can put 2 of those thing..

when i put it in.. it increase a lot.. but after some time.. it reduces.. mayb the rubber getting soft..

 

[ahaw]

why not opt for proper spring like eibach ss or go for adjst.. this setup will only give temp result, but will kill ur lower arm bushing in the long run (if ur a hard driver and its a family car).

 

[tonyops]

thanks guys for all of ur feedbacks, luckily i din opt for the spring buffer, seems like a lot of negative feedbacks. Anyway, i've put back to stock springs, now d ride comfort is absolutely marvellous!!!.. I'm enjoying it. I'll be selling off those lowered springs soon. In case any of you wants it, it's going cheap for all 4 pieces. The lowered spring is also comfortable, just tat being too lowered (for me) makes me not enjoying my driving. I'll post it in ZTH markerplace soon with pics. Cheers!!

 

[AE101-Wong]

try to look carefully from side, the front fender arch is higher abit than the rear 1..
if u want 2 fingers height from tire to fender, it's quite hard to get the ideal setting using sport spring or sport absorber...