25mm(1 inch) from lovell springs(there made in australia and not china as most king springs are now)leagly go 15mm higher with tyre, makes 40mm can get ruber spacer blocks and get another 15mm but then cv,s are gunna be at limit with a littl to much strain on them. with recearch i see it to be fine as this car is not a bush basher. take it slow and use traction controll. it works pretty good in mud and sand. dependent on tyres.
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can get away with these without atracting attention from unwanted flashing lights.
i got some cheap tyres that out proform the turanza standard from st george tyres in sydney not to long ago while on holidays
lexan sx7 225/55/17
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got them on ebay for 85 au ea.(piked them up because i was drivint to south nsw) they will post reasonbly cheep too. i used them alot on way home dodging roos, going bush and keeping traction in the rain. (really good in wet weather)
101 weight better wear rate, cheaper too. have done 5500 klm hyway non stop with no probs. kept alot of air in them and they all look brand new still.
i have driver on some verry steep hills with lots of ruts to cross over and altho it did bottm out. by holding the revs still it slowed then crawled and scraped throuh. there would have been trouble if it stopped as it was verry steep and windey. also went thru some sandy motorbike tracks and not even thinking about getting stuk. squeezing throught the trees, going over some jumps slowley, and riding the burn on others. and on road tyres it does good. so cant wait for the maxxis tyres on it.
so unless you need to get up and flog it to get through the 4x4 tracks, a bit of height and some good tyres is all nedded. not a big job. i got the addy with sloppy suspention so its not extra expence its the same price for standard springs(close enough)