Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Plus Four, Supersport & Plus Six (CX & CXV Generation Vehicles) Nitron suspension and taller tyres

Whilst at Malvern with Mark driving we went for a good thrash around the local lanes in my car to check it out, Mark found for a standrard car mine was one of the best he had driven, so we discounted fitting nitron suspension for now..

I'm planning a continental tour for next year doing the various Swiss alpine passes and around the Italian lakes trying to avoid continental , autohbahns and autostrada's as much as possible, use the major national roads, which can be fun when trying to enter villages and towns with traffic calming measures. We plan to stay in Spa, Heidelberg, Lindau, Lake Como, St Moritz,, Andermatt, St Gallen, Bruges along the way and AI has proven to be very useful in identifying hotels etc., that avoid centres with heavy restrictions or traffic calming measures or humps.

However more ground clearance may prove useful, I still find the standard suspension can bottom out on speed humps etc.as I experienced the other day when sent on a detour off the motorway, which proved uncomfortable for us and the car, going through a village full of speed humps and despite best of intentions I grounded the car once....not nice and got me to thinking about raising the car height with nitron suspension and maybe if possible, with wing, suspension clearance, fit a taller 205/65R15 tyres, that should in theory give me another 3cm 1.2 inches of clearance.

Part of the problem with the standard suspension is it compresses much more than the nitrons. therefore more likely to ground more, even if set at the same ride height.

I'd appreciate any feed back from those with nitron suspension fitted as to whether they raised the ride heiight and has it i(raised ride height or not) mproved the car's ability to handle raised humps, traffic calming measures compared to the standard setup........the limited ground clearanc is the only real bug bear with the CX, and I'm looking for iinput on the possible solutions especially when touring fully laden, when the car will be more exposed to ride height llimitations.especially over traffic calming raised humps

If any have raised the car height, have they noticed any real material adverse difference in the handling of the car, I'm not into racing my car, but I do want to enjoy it to the full when the opportunity presents itself eg the Alpine passes. I'm just trying to find that sweet spot for what is otherwise a great car.

Thanks in advance