Except that my understanding is that they have decided to fit 4 seater suspension to the Plus 4 which has a known ground clearance problem. The Australian Design Rules require a 100mm ground clearance under the centre of the car and the Plus 4 often has only 90mm (I know because mine was like that when I picked it up at the factory).

More than anything this is because the Plus 4 has the lowest tyre sidewall hight of the whole trad range. By some stroke of genius the answer is the labour intensive and somewhat unsatisfactory solution of fitting stiffer, and therefore higher, suspension, sacrificing ride comfort and increasing body roll. Admittedly there was a batch of faulty 4 leaf springs that gave particular problems on some cars but that is a different issue. The obvious and easiest solution of simply fitting taller tyres seems to have been ignored. Simply fitting 195/65 R15 tyres for the Australian market (and that matter as standard tyres on all Plus 4 cars) would have gained 10mm and resolved the problem.

Peter

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