Audi RS4 with lowered suspension

[ropey]

Hi all,

Just after a quick bit of advice... am planning on buying a 2014/15 Audi RS4 Avant. Have found one that ticks all the right boxes (for me) but it has been lowered. Not a huge amount, but still. As far as I can tell it's just had new coils fitted that make the car sit lower. And it wasn't done at an Audi dealership.

The car has the sports pack, and therefore DRC.

I would prefer the car to be standard.

So a few questions...

Is it an issue to get the car put back to on standard springs? (meaning the original springs the car would have come with)

Would swapping the springs have caused any issues with the DRC?

If I buy the car, and get it put back to "normal" - should I have any other cause for concern?

Hoping someone can help - as you can probably tell, I'm not massively techie!

Thanks,
Ropey

[jsims1]

ropey said:

Hi all,

Just after a quick bit of advice... am planning on buying a 2014/15 Audi RS4 Avant. Have found one that ticks all the right boxes (for me) but it has been lowered. Not a huge amount, but still. As far as I can tell it's just had new coils fitted that make the car sit lower. And it wasn't done at an Audi dealership.

The car has the sports pack, and therefore DRC.

I would prefer the car to be standard.

So a few questions...

Is it an issue to get the car put back to on standard springs? (meaning the original springs the car would have come with)

Would swapping the springs have caused any issues with the DRC?

If I buy the car, and get it put back to "normal" - should I have any other cause for concern?

Hoping someone can help - as you can probably tell, I'm not massively techie!

Thanks,
Ropey

It should only be a case of getting a garage to fit a standard set of springs and then having the alignment re done to suit.

Some aftermarket springs are able to be used with factory DRC / chassis control, others drop the car too much and disables the feature somehow (I don't know how exactly) if it's only a small drop, chances are you'll be ok and shouldn't need anything else doing.

After going back to standard you should have no issues at all.

Hope this helps.

[Blue62]

I would seriously recommend you join RS246 and ask the question on their forum, lots of very knowledgeable folk who have done all sorts of mods and you will generally get good, honest advice.

[ropey]

Thanks to you both.

I happened to be dropping off my current car at Audi this morning, so asked one of their technicians the same question. And they said the same thing.

So all good.