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looking at lowering my T25 Panel and would like to know the cheapest/best option to do it?

So which is it?

The cheapest or best or the cheapest best?

The best you will get at the cheapest price is most likely from http://www.brickwerks.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Approx £463 for a complete kit with adjustable dampers, or get the springs and some Bilstein B4's seperately for £376.33

Have a read of this too http://www.brick-yard.co.uk/VehicleSpec ... wering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As I understand it for around 50mm lowered springs, you can use stock shocks. Springs in that case are around £120 on fleabay.

have looked on brickwerks and saw some -50mm lowering springs for around 160 quid. will these do the job well and would they be easy to fit? whats involved??

Easy to fit and will lower it without you owning a camper that can only tackle flat roads. Others will expand on this I'm sure....

CovKid wrote:Easy to fit and will lower it without you owning a camper that can only tackle flat roads. Others will expand on this I'm sure....

Not too sure what is meant by this

It means you won't be scraping the road

rears take about 30 mins a side and require no specialist tools just a fat mate to push the arm down to get the old spring out once the shock has been disconected.

Fronts are more involved and will need spring compressors but it aint rocket science, one thing you'll need to do is to get under the van and start spraying all the bolts that will need to come undone with wd40 to make your own life easier, i replaced my springs and shocks with the £200 lowering kit from e'bay and its great value for money fits like a glove and totaly transformed the wooley handling, it took me half a day to fit but that was in a fully fitted vehicle workshop.

here she is once lowered

thanks guys, Happy Camper your bus is looking sweet. what drop is it? i may want to go a little lower, on the rear anyway
do you have a link to the fleabay listing?

not sure what Wooley suspension is but mine is fairly stiff as standard,

More help would be great.

its a rite of passage, you have your new t3 and you are going to slam it.most of us have done it, some of us started with cheap kits and some with very low kits. everybody seems to end up at -50 (in my opinion far to high) with h+r or avo and a decent set of dampers. best bet is to buy the cheapest possible kit and go as low as you can, then once you have wrecked your arches can no longer stand the poor ride and can drive no faster than most bicycles, get yourself a decent kit. that way you will not have wasted as much money. remember your tracking and camber adjustments each time you change your springs, do it a few times and that can add up to a proper kit. have fun

MattyGreg05 wrote:thanks guys, Happy Camper your bus is looking sweet. what drop is it? i may want to go a little lower, on the rear anyway
do you have a link to the fleabay listing?

not sure what Wooley suspension is but mine is fairly stiff as standard,

More help would be great.

Its dropped -50 front and -40 at the rear the pic was taken straight after she was done and she's settled a bit more now and sits lovely and straight, thanks for the kind comments for my van.

Have to dissagree with some of what Riccicles says ( with all due respect ) i believe that the kit i have used offers great value for money has totally transformed my van the ride is great and does a sound job its a camper van not a sports car, adjustable dampers would be wasted on a van that only had 70 bhp when it left the factory 23 years ago. i have a 328 Bmw and that has been lowered on an Eibach pro kit that cost a lot of money but its churning out 225 bhp and is worth the extra expence.

oops sorry no offence meant its just experience. i got sold the wrong wheels the wrong lowering kit it was an appalling ride it damaged the bodywork and was waste of a lot of money. i know a lot of people buy the cheaper kits and are happy with them, depends on what you want, for me lowering the camper was to improve the ride and handling, i found the cheaper kits did the opposite, for me its got to be better than standard to be worth doing. love the look of your van happycamper.

ricicles wrote:oops sorry no offence meant its just experience. i got sold the wrong wheels the wrong lowering kit it was an appalling ride it damaged the bodywork and was waste of a lot of money. i know a lot of people buy the cheaper kits and are happy with them, depends on what you want, for me lowering the camper was to improve the ride and handling, i found the cheaper kits did the opposite, for me its got to be better than standard to be worth doing. love the look of your van happycamper.

No offence taken buddy i'm sure that an expensive kit will have pluses over a cheaper kit but its my belief that adjustable kits are wasted unless your gonna do trackdays or offroad in which case they're worth every penny all i was trying to point out was that a full on adjustable kit may be wasted on a leisure vehicle that will spend most of its time doing 60 mph on a motorway .