I've been reading all the threads about lowering a vRS and weighing up the pros and cons as to which springs to go for or get coilovers etc.

I was talking to a Skoda service mechanic on Friday and he says lowering the car will balls up the camber. vRS camber isn't adjustable and lowering it (by too much anyway) will result in positive camber. Not good.

Don't shoot the messenger, just adding this to the mix.

I'm still thinking of getting the Eibach springs though, only 30mm drop.

Your Skoda mechanic was talking ballcocks! You can't change the rear camber by lowering, because the rear torsion beam is effectively a trailing arm, and doesn't rotate in the camber direction with suspension movement. You will change the front camber (and castor) by lowering, but since the front camber is already negative, you will make it more so.

It's nothing a decent alignment can't fix on the front - AIUI, the camber can be adjusted by moving the position of the wishbone relative to the subframe. Or something...

Thanks to you both.

It's nothing a decent alignment can't fix on the front - AIUI, the camber can be adjusted by moving the position of the wishbone relative to the subframe. Or something...

As I understood it, you can only move the subframe sideways, which can only really be used to equalise camber.. If, say, you had 1.0deg negative one side, and 1.5deg negative the other, you could move the subframe to achieve 1.25 deg both sides.

Oh, right.

Well had mine lowered on spax springs afew days ago and it has made a huge difference for the better. The handling is fantastic, where as before, well it just wasn't.

Ride is harder of course but thats the price you pay

If I see one more post about feckin lowering a VRS I will shoot the poster

Its good to know there are so many knowledgeable people out there with good information.

Technically the rear camber does alter, the movement in the trailing arm isnt linear, the wheel moves in an arc so if you place it further up the arc if you like the camber does alter, not by much though.

Comment about equalising the front camber is spot on.