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Anyone got 2" lift before and after pictures?

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Jake:
Before

After

If your going to fit a lift go for the best kit you can.
Old Man Emu springs and dampers are the best.
I've driven a 2" lifted disco with OME kit fitted and it handled like it wasn't lifted.
Very firm on the road and nice and flexy off road.
 8)

omara04:

--- Quote from: "Iain C" ---Omara that looks the nuts, right, I'm sold!!!!! That's only 2"???
--- End quote ---


Yes mate - Britpart springs and Pro-comp 9000 shocks. £235 IIRC.

Just watch it though, as you need to fix the rear springs top AND bottom. On full articulation (and I mean only on full) they can drop out. Talking from experience here!!

If you're careful it'll be fine. Either that or fit dislocation cones (next task!!)

It radically changed it's offroad usefulness. Haven't been stuck (touch wood) since!!!

Range Rover Blues:
I think those 2 trucks (Jake & Omara) look fine with the rubber they have.  What's the point of lifting it to get extra space under the wheels if they are still stuffed into the wheelarches.  Of course if they were 205R16 then yes they would look lost, nut don't be rushinng out with cash burning a hole in your pocket to buy new tyres.

BTW, omara, I can see in you after pic that you have no castor left in you steering.  How does it drive?

omara04:
RRB - I think the photos are a little misleading - the wheel isn't too far off centre. But either way, it drives ok, and there's no castor correction. Or at least as well as you'd expect. It hardly measures up to my hot hatch, but you accept the fact that it's an offroad vehicle and live with it.

Combination of the lift and the tires means it's definitely more squidgy when you chuck it into a bend, but you learn to get around that by turning in earlier, and the old girl shifts her weigt across and round you go  :wink: Sometimes the vagueness of the steering can catch you out, but like i said if you want a car that handles, don't give it squidy tires and suspension!

The tires aren't too bad in the wet either, but i'd like a more agressive and slightly taller tire.

Overall it's 100% worth it, because the offroad performance is significantly better.

Range Rover Blues:
It's not the position of the wheel but the angle, when you've messed around with a few you can tell the difference.  You should see the wheels on the LSE when it's sat on the bumpstops :wink:

Anyway, handling is as much about expectation as performance if you can handle the car and like driving it then job done in my book :)

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