Noob ?
Has anyone found original ride height aftermarket shocks for the Alltrack, that ideally could be dialed up a little to accomodate a 1" lift?
The OEM sachs dont hold up well on original springs with lots of weight in back- the old saggy butt common to VW wagons.
The saggy butt solution is the red AirLift manual fill bags inside rear spring, as used by Jeeps, SUVs, trucks towing for many years, that you can air up if heavy loaded with kids, camping gear, bikes on tow hitch, etc and then air down, but this doesnt change the "too stiff over little bumps at speed", "too easy to bottom out big bumps slow" nature of the OEM Sachs, and it would be nice to have aftermarket options as the Sachs lose their mojo...
whats long miles users experience? So far so good at 55,000 but thats 90% highway, only a bit of ruffroad, but anticipate more of latter in near future...
The "temporary" solution to make up for the limited extension and "topping out" of rear OEM Sachs shocks is use the Atlas rear shock. This is what Smith BW sells in their "Leveling (lift) Kit fir ATs."
But Atlas in rear ORM Sachs in front is a bit of a compromise as the fronts and rears then have mismatched dampening.
How big a deal is that for "non-racers" for just using in snow or on rutted dirt roads for a bit more clearance with a 1" lift?
Doing patient research on this every 4-6 months:
Talked to Bilstein- nothing, closest to OEM is B6 which is 0.5 drop
H&R, nothing except maybe "adventure kit" (springs only) for AT "in dev, no release" date (no going on 6 mos)
they already sell a kit for Tigs and Atlas.
Paul at ShopDAP suggests custom shocks, which is same advice as the very helpful Bilstein West Coast rep,
"like baja and dirt rally racers do..."
but thats a bit outside the budget...
nothing else found at
vortex or
FB VW Alltrack Owners or
Lifted MQB groups either...
other suggestions here?
- thanks!