RIDE HEIGHT

[hughandjenny]

Hi all hope you have had a good festive period. Had my 450 for 5 weeks and have been reading some of the posts. I read that the ride height should be 160 at the rear and 150 at the front. From the flat corners of the outriggers. I measured mine today and found they are 140 front and rear. The car has racing red shocks.
Should I be concerned? Should I jack up the hight on the shock adjustment?
Due to the weather I have only driven it 6 times and even then not in anger as the roads are greasy so cant give any feedback on handling.
Thanks

[haircutmike]

Hi.

Seems like a bit of twiddling is in order.

On a flat surface, adjust the front to about 145mm and the rear to 160mm.

Drive for a short period and recheck.

If you are adjusting on your garage floor, move the car out of the garage and in again after every adjustment, this lets the suspension settle.

You may have to go round the car a couple of times to set up correctly.

I set mine up a couple of mm higher on the offside as the car gets mainly solo use.

You should use a "C" spanner for the adjustment, hopefully the last owner passed it on.

Get under it

[hughandjenny]

Thanks for that. No C spanner, but I might still have one from my Ducati days, will have a go this week.