And most gauge the adjustment range from non-sport height (you have to +/- any sport package difference).

 

just city cruising. If I were to track it I would certainly run the suspension a little different, and not on HRE's!

 

thanks for the replies. good info!

 

As some of you are not old enough to remember some of the problems I encountered (and a few others) with the initial kits that came in to North America (my kit was the first one installed in spring 2002), the ride height adjusters in the rear were too SHORT. With the adjuster cup at its max height with barely any thread holding them together, we were BELOW the maximum lowering height recommended by H&R. This issue was resolved only after I removed my coilover kit for the winter and measurements were taken of the adjuster. H&R eventually did send us some taller adjusters to "fix" the problem but I/we had to argue with them and scare them into using the proper channels if they did not resolve it to our satisfaction. The reason I'm telling you this is that MAYBE you have a kit that came with the older and smaller adjusters, but I would doubt it, I'm sure they removed all the wrong parts from their kits and replaced them with the proper ones by now. They don't want to be embarrassed again.

Now if IRCC the ride height of a non sport pack car is between 27 to 27 1/4 inch from the ground to the bottom of the fender, front and rear, so technically you can drop the front by a maximum of 2.2 = 2 1/4 inches. This means anywhere between 24.75 to 25.0 inches from the ground to the fender for the front. The rear would be dropped no more than 1.7 or 1 3/4 inch (IIRC), so this means a max drop to between
25 1/4 to 25 1/2 inches from the ground to the fender.
I would set it up the following way, either the same front and rear at 25 1/4 or adjust a positive rake meaning the front end is lower than the rear at 25.0 in the front and 25 1/4 in the rear. If your car CAN NOT be adjusted within the H&R specs, there is most likely something wrong with your kit.

Now this said, I'm in Denver sitting in my hotel room and I'm doing this from memory so my numbers could be wrong and I suggest you double check all the H&R numbers on their web site and measure a non sport pack suspension on an A4 before you jump to a wrongful conclusion.

BTW, I used to have a picture of the two rear adjusters on my pics poster on AW, the short one (wrong part) and the newer taller one (right part). It showed the difference in size between the two.
Unfortunately I removed it a while back and I can't get access to them from here. check out all your stuff and if you think you have problems with your kit call Roger at H&R.

 

That's fine, I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just trying to explain the range on the settings.

 

But thanks for giving me the info. I remembered reading about it and was worried I was going to get an old kit.

 

all good, I understand where you are coming from

 

what coilovers are you looking at....email me if you want some info on the KW V2's