Re: 1983 URQ Springs

[Simon Allcorn <SALLCORN@softa.co.uk>]

.  The car seems to bounce around a lot when driving over bumps in
the road (purely subjective).
Can anyone shed any light on this issue or perhaps at least let me know
what the original spring diameter is?

Are the springs any stiffer and if so have you uprated the shocks ? (If
the shocks are standard and the springs uprated then the handle will
have gone to pot - underdamped)
Also a point of interest for all Q listers: (if you didn't know it
already...)
The stiffness and all characteristics of springs are determined by their
physical characteristics, i.e. number of free coils, diameter of the
metal the spring is made of etc. So it is possible to calculate by how
much the new springs are softer/stiffer than the old ones...

Simon Allcorn
(SALLCORN@softa.co.uk)
87 Coupe Quattro.