1 hour ago, Papez said:

Felicia 1.6 dampers may take care of that - there was 20kg difference between those 2 and some higher equipped 1.3 Felicias had them from the factory, according to the service manual.

Worth trying in the next change.

236mm vented brake discs (as Felicia has)

 

 

 

but we need diferent calipers, the point is: Which?

17 hours ago, R_Blue said:

When I got the car 4 years ago, the front swing arms, shocks, springs, front axles, their boots etc. were new. Had been replaced by the previous owner before the sale of the car.  It's just like this from the day one.

Of course these parts are not OE. All of them are aftermarket.

 

Felicia has a higher engine position than fav. and might not be comparable.

 

I think, this is normal for this car.

When you look from the side, the car looks like an ordinary car with ample suspension movement space but the ground clearance under the skid plate is very low.

Maybe like 8cm.

If the suspension had traveled more, the car would crash the skid plate to the ground.

As said the the seller might not have fitted good quality parts and I would add he might not have fitted the correct parts and/or fitted the parts correctly, or even parts missing or really worn parts not replaced.  I don't know the details of the model and my memories of my wife's Favorit (hatchback) back in the day are very sketchy but I can't think ground clearance would ever be an issue, in the UK anyway.  I would have thought that the estate version might have uprated springs and dampers perhaps over the hatchback version.

 

My MG Midget was a reasonably low car (not as low as some, I could look down on a Lotus Elise as it passed) but that was claimed to have 5" / 12.7cm ground clearance, though I have no idea where they got that figure from.

 

Found this, I have no idea if it's correct but sounds reasonable - Ground clearance full load: 125 mm / 4.9 in. - https://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/1989/60140/skoda_favorit_136_l.html#gsc.tab=0

 

If you look at videos or photos of when the model when they were new I think you will see the ground clearance, in the UK there would be no need for a skid plate unless you were taking the car offroad.

 

A measurement we used to use to check ride height was to measure from the centre of the wheel hub to the underside of the wheel arch and compare with another owner's car of the same model and year, of course both had to be factory standard and all components in reasonably good condition.  With yours the very small difference in tyre size can be forgotten as being well within margins of difference.

 

You could put up a thread here asking other owners if they could measure their cars to compare or if you have any data on the car or drawings you could compare.  Or you could perhaps put up a side on photo of your car sitting on solid level ground to give some idea of your car's stance and ground clearance.

 

If I can find a photo of my wife's Favorit from back in the day I can let you have a jpg (my wife has kept hundreds of photos but they are all mixed up and in a drawer in the garden shed, they may have faded a bit by now.

 

On a side note, all specifications I have looked at show tyres as 165/70 r13 which sounds correct to me as this was the (wider) low profile tyre size for 145 or 155/80 r13 back in the day.  So this size might give you an alternative or wider selection of tyres to chose from.

 

HTH.

 

Edited 25 January, 20251 yr by nta16
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7 hours ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

236mm vented brake discs (as Felicia has)

 

 

 

but we need diferent calipers, the point is: Which?

 

Another candidate! Congratulations! Good find.

 

The H value is 45.3 on the Felicia.

The setup had been adjusted for that.

 

The proposed caliper's own disc is this:

https://spareto.com/products/trw-brake-disc/df2753

The disc depth of this model is 43mm.

 

Very close.

 

I don' know how the final result would be after bringing the parts together but, more than 43mm may need grinding from the bracket. While any less than 43mm, just like with the renault dics, may require shims just like @Papez said.

 

Because of the overall diameter, Renault discs may be the better choice here. For 13" rims.

 

The 236mm Mitsubishi discs we see here had been chosen for Lancer V 1.6 16V. A 113Hp car. So, I think there is no reason for going 256mm Hyundai Vented discs.

 

 

10 hours ago, nta16 said:

A measurement we used to use to check ride height was to measure from the centre of the wheel hub to the underside of the wheel arch and compare with another owner's car of the same model and year, of course both had to be factory standard and all components in reasonably good condition.  With yours the very small difference in tyre size can be forgotten as being well within margins of difference.

I'll check but there are differences. Many differences. 10kg Skid plate, LPG system, 74Ah battery. The tires are also 175 70 r13. Stock tires are 165 70 r13.

 

10 hours ago, nta16 said:

If I can find a photo of my wife's Favorit from back in the day I can let you have a jpg (my wife has kept hundreds of photos but they are all mixed up and in a drawer in the garden shed, they may have faded a bit by now.

A little off topic but faded photos are better than nothing.

I've lost many photos taken in early 2000s with a digital camera.

26 minutes ago, R_Blue said:

I'll check but there are differences. Many differences. 10kg Skid plate, LPG system, 74Ah battery. The tires are also 175 70 r13. Stock tires are 165 70 r13.

10kg isn't much, a good meal for some. 😁  Yes LPG bottle can weight a bit but note the measurement I rom that website said for car fully loaded (the 5" /12.7cm (claimed) I believe was for car with liquids but not fully loaded or with driver and passenger (two seats only of course)), yes 74Ah battery weights a bit more than standard but not that much (you can get the weights from battery specifications and as I said you can forget the difference between 170 and 165 tyres as it's too small and would probably fall in the differences between cars when the cars left the production line I would guess.

 

 

35 minutes ago, R_Blue said:

digital camera

😄 Digital camera, these photos were in the early 1990s, taken on film and then cheaply developed on to paper, these were larger prints but still not large.  It's raining all day tomorrow so I will have a look then for you and I want to find other photos too (hope I don't get distracted looking at the old photos for too long as I usually do).

 

Losing information of all sorts is an ongoing problem, and was a problem of the past too.

 

1 hour ago, nta16 said:

Yes LPG bottle can weight a bit but note the measurement I rom that website said for car fully loaded (the 5" /12.7cm (claimed) I believe was for car with liquids but not fully loaded or with driver and passenger (two seats only of course)),

Sorry typos glory tonight.

 

should be -

Yes LPG bottle can weight a bit but note the measurement - I took from - that website  - for your car - said for - your - car fully loaded - and - (the 5" /12.7cm (claimed) - clearance for my Midget I believe was for car - (Midget) - with liquids but not fully loaded or with driver and passenger (two seats only of course)),

 

Computer mouse and my brain have been playing up today, even more than usual.

 

10 hours ago, R_Blue said:

 

The proposed caliper's own disc is this:

https://spareto.com/products/trw-brake-disc/df2753

The disc depth of this model is 43mm.

 

 

Made in China?

What calipers we need? They come with their own brackets?