I can't lower and/or stiffen the suspension. You see here in this city every moron that thinks that cars drive by their house or business just too damn fast for their taste go and hire someone to put a speed bump outside their house or business without any permit of any kind. So they put as many as they want and as high as they want and the authorities RARELY take out any of these bumps. There's this house in my neighborhood that has THREE speed bumps one after the other right outside. On top of all that they don't take the time to put any signals or even put some paint over the bump so in most cases it has the same color as the road and if you're lucky, it's also placed under the shadow of a tree to make it more stealthy. All these steps ensure two things:
1. The first time you drive by a newly set speed bump you have a very good chance of not seeing it, specially if it's night time or raining which will lead to "Crashing into the speed bump" as I refer to it now. Why? because it's so damn big and you were going so fast that you didn't felt like you went over it, you felt like you crashed into it.
2. Once you learned the location of the new speed bump you stop, but it's so high that you have to pass over it sideways to avoid hitting it with the exhaust which doesn't always work because the street is not wide enough or there's another car next to you.
The rule of thumb to set the height of these things is normally the same height as the curve, but I've seen cases in which they lay down a concrete post (like the ones used for electrical lines) across the street and cover it with concrete or pavement.
Besides all that a lot of the streets around here are in really bad shape. What happens here is that when they make them, they just set the ground surface even and put some pavement on it. No foundation, no concrete. 90% of the streets here are made like that. When it rains they get filled with pot holes and heavy load trucks finish the job. They remain like this the whole rain season, they don't get fixed or nothing until it stops raining. That's a good 4 months worth of random pot holes all over town. Once the rain stops, they go and just cover the pot holes with some pavement (it's just a truck loaded with pavement and 4 or 5 guys with a shovel) and move on. Then the process starts all over again, so after a few years the streets are mainly made of pavement, pot holes, uneven pot hole patches and speed bumps.
Still this is the number one city in Mexico in which people buy aftermarket wheels! lmao! What many of these brave fellows do is that they switch back to the stock wheels in the rain season. But still there are a lot of shops out there that all they do is fix bent and broken wheels and obviously they have a lot of work haha.
So yeah, lowering springs, hardened suspension and lower profile wheels are just a breakdown waiting to happen.
Originally Posted by Juanmiguel
I can't lower and/or stiffen the suspension. You see here in this city every moron that thinks that cars drive by their house or business just too damn fast for their taste go and hire someone to put a speed bump outside their house or business without any permit of any kind. So they put as many as they want and as high as they want and the authorities RARELY take out any of these bumps. There's this house in my neighborhood that has THREE speed bumps one after the other right outside. On top of all that they don't take the time to put any signals or even put some paint over the bump so in most cases it has the same color as the road and if you're lucky, it's also placed under the shadow of a tree to make it more stealthy. All these steps ensure two things:
