Rubbing spring. Mot fail?

Just fitted lowering springs to my t5. Had them on my previous 2.4 and never had a problem although I never took that for an mot or moved the steering with the car jacked up. Everything is fine when the car is on its wheels,no knocking scraping etc but with the car in the air and the lower suspension mount at the bottom of spring way lower than it normally is,the first coil from the bottom rubs on the inner shell arch slightly. Is this an mot fail? The only time it would ever rub if I was driving would be if I was doing a dukes of hazard !

I had an issue with a rear spring on Gul, a simple rotation of 90-180 degrees sorted that, but not heard of issues on the front before, could the coil be upside down as that would rub for sure or are you using p2 springs (you mentioned 2.4) on a p1 (in your sig pic) could be an issue there for sure

The coil looks identical either way up. I did turn it upside down and it was slightly better. The coil wasn't directly on the ridge but still was touching slightly. Both my v70's have been p1's. I bought the springs second hand and the seller told me they were for an 850/v70

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Originally Posted by Jofenan

The coil looks identical either way up. I did turn it upside down and it was slightly better. The coil wasn't directly on the ridge but still was touching slightly. Both my v70's have been p1's. I bought the springs second hand and the seller told me they were for an 850/v70

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had a look at some spare p1 ones here and are straight so yours should be right, only other issues could be spring orientation and if the struts are handed, something i've not looked into before or had an issue with.

The question is how much are the springs lowering by?

Our 97 V70 has the PFV spring and shock setup fitted and no issues.

From memory they are a minus 30mm on the ride height but I could be wrong.

I replaced them one at a time so the same strut went back on its original side. They are not stupidly low. I reckon 30mm.

As for fitting,the bottom and top cups have places where the end of the springs butts up to so you can't really get it wrong.

I'm going to pop into the test centre tomorrow and ask.my test is on sat morning. If it's a fail I'll just put the old ones back on just for the test. There are no issues whatever when the cars on its own weight

Good plan, but it is still puzzling why they rub on the lowered springs

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Here's the car today on its lowering springs

Just spoke to the mot tester and he said as long as it doesn't rub when it's on the ground it's fine :)

Passed :)