killkrich

I found this online. I was wondering if this a good option to lower my car. Has anyone on ever tried this product?

http://www.oemplus.com/suspension-lo...cal-p-528.html

snapdragon

What's in the box?

MP4.2+6.0

They have been installed by owners in the past occasionally, though I think the few who had them have moved on--one was CovertW12 IIRC.

Once the VAG COM lowering method was cracked, these seemed to fade out. They result in a fair amount of drop as I recall, so if you only want a modest amount, they may not be the way to go anyway.

mishar

Add $50, buy VCDS and lower it up to 1" (25 mm). At that point you have only 2.5" (65 mm) of a clearance. Going lower is ridiculous and definitely kills any suspension travel. As a plus you will have a great tool that can be used for many other mods too.

AusA8

+1! Such a useful tool!!

killkrich

Thank you for the great insight gentlemen. I think I will go with VCD's

Jan_PL_S6

Just ordered mine on friday and will probably post some pictures by the end of the week. I've toyed with the VCDS lowering and was not too happy, so I thought I'd give the mechanical means a little try. Will post results.

killkrich

What do you mean by giving the mechanicals a try? Were you not happy with VCD results?

killkrich

Also found this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUDI-A8-LOWE...433a93&vxp=mtr

Jan_PL_S6

By mechanicals I mean the Lowering kit from oemplus. They are lowering links that you replace in your suspension which fools the computer to make the car drop lower. They look like this more or less:



And I wasn't happy with the VCDS because there was so much toying around with it that I really just got completely frustrated with it. You have to be pretty damn careful because if you put in the wrong values you start getting error codes left and right and your headlights just flop down, then you have to set everything back to normal and try again. The process has to be done on a pretty level surface so my driveway was out of the question, I ended up having to do it in a store parking lot 5 minutes away from my house which probably didn't help since I was trying to rush before my laptop died. From all that I read, you can get a more significant drop from the links, they can be replaced in a fraction of the time it takes you to lower it through VCDS, and adjusting them is pretty easy.

I'm not trying to scare you away from the VCDS because it is a pretty good way to lower your car, I'm just saying its not for me. I hate having to toy with the damn system so much, I'd rather have it all in front of me and be able to put my hands on it. On top of that, I wanted something that I can adjust rather quickly since I plan on dropping low in the summer and raising it back to stock height in the winter time and not have to spend an hour or two playing around with a computer.