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We have all seen the road condition in Nepal and have even experienced it first hand. All our roadways are tipped with imperfections, unmanaged conditions, and multiple potholes. Not to mention the poorly designed road structure with disorderly kept speed breakers.
In addition, it should come as no surprise when we talk about boosting ground clearance. Considering your vehicle's challenges with every ride, increasing your ground clearance is the only appropriate option to bring peace while you sit behind the wheels.
Similar to installing body armor and a winch kit, elevating your ground clearance in a car optimizes comfort in your off-road experiences. It assists in preventing your vehicle's underbelly from scraping against obstacles and absorbs most of the road shocks.
When upgrading your car to bear minimal to no effect during the rugged and uneven off-roading trails, there are multiple options one can choose from. If you decide to lift your ground clearance, it should range from 8.8 to 10.8 inches.
The height also depends on the obstacle your car is going through. Also, if you are looking forward to increasing your ground clearance, then there are three effective solutions that you can implement right now.
One of the easiest and most popular ways to uplift your car's ground clearance is a more extensive tire profile and rim. Again, you can do this in two significant ways. The first option is to boost your tire's size while retaining the edges as you upsize its height. The second option is completely using taller rims and taller tires.
This modification often works in almost every car as it can handle a tire size increase by a size or two. Yes, this process sounds reasonable; however, you should be careful not to add tires that are too large. If your tire's size is too large, it will cause them to rub against the inside of the wheel wells.
In addition, if the tires are too large, it will also limit a vehicle's turning radius, which will often result in complex handling and control. Hence, you should avoid upsizing your vehicle's tires by more than a couple of inches.
If you are going for the tire upgrade within an acceptable limit of a couple of inches and not more, the authorized services will help you through. But before you dive into this upgrade, you should understand the modifications your car will stand.
Generally, after upsizing your tires, the dynamics of your car change, and you will have to adjust your driving accordingly. Likewise, the broader and larger rubber of your tires may also result in lower fuel efficiency.
Talking about the cost of this process, it is indeed an expensive one. If you do this when buying a car, it will be economical as the tire dealer will just have to replace the existing tires with a larger one. However, if you decide to do this in the middle of your car's lifespan, you will have to replace both rims and tires, which is indeed costly.
Yet another popular option to elevate your car's ground clearance, every authorized service center will offer suspension upgrade kits for many mass-market vehicles. The best of it is that you can control its damping characteristics as it comes with a level of adjustability. Additionally, this option lifts your car by roughly two to three inches.
Hence, you can fit even larger tires as the bottom of the vehicle will sit higher off the ground. Since this suspension is adjustable, you can also control its softness and stiffness for a comfortable yet scrape-free ride.
Having said this, this suspension modification will also shift the center of gravity of your car, which might impact your driving performance.
Alongside traversing taller obstacles and uneven roads more efficiently, this suspension lift kit can be much better than the stock suspension. However, before you think of installing this option, it is always best to check its kind and consider your driving style and other requirements.
As for the cost, the suspension lift kit is quite expensive if you are talking about the adjustable ones. But if it's the regular suspension modification, it is priced much lower than the first option. Lastly, yes, this suspension lift kit is available and can be done for any sort of car.
Last but not least, coil spring assisters are one of the renowned options to enhance your vehicle's ground clearance. They are also known as coil spring spacers and sit between the coils of a coil spring suspension. Usually, they are coiled polyurethane pieces that fit into a coil spring.
This coil spring assister the suspension travel (contraction and expansion) to a certain extent. Well, what happens is that this spacer limits the suspension travel, and hence when you hit a pothole or speed breakers, it will not allow your car to sink at the bottom. When it does happen, your vehicle will not face any scraping.
The assisters can increase a vehicle's ground clearance by around 10-15 mm, which is usually enough for low-slung cars. Altogether, you can place this assister in three ways: top, middle, and bottom.
If you place them at the top, it will focus on the load. Similarly, if you put it in the middle, it will get into action under mild loads. As for the bottom, it will only act during the entire load.
Indeed, this coil spring spacer works on every type of car, except the vehicles with leaf spring suspension layouts. The important part is that you can get this modification at a good value. Not to mention, they also run perfectly well for about 50,000 kilometers.
Yet all these suspension modifications will also bring changes to your car overall. Under certain circumstances, you might find it hard to handle your car with the change in suspension characteristics. Therefore, you must drive with ease while having this assister.