The gap is REALLY noticeable when your standing there looking at them. Mine looked like a 4X4 to me next to Navyflyer11.

 

Not so sure that I would drop it being that you are so close to the ground as is, and there is not really that much of a difference, that I can see. It does look SOME what lower but much at all.....I thought low riders went out in the 90's lol!

 

I've seen a lot of pictures of lowered HHR's (since we sell the springs...), and the black models are by far the hardest to get a good read on from pictures. In person it's a whole 'nother thing. You need some bright daylight with black vehicles to get any contrast in the wheelwells.

Also, on lowering in general; it's not for everyone. Some like it, some don't - and that's ok! Personally, I'll never go back. It's too cool now. When my car was at AEM getting the intake prototyped I drove a stock LS rental for 2-weeks - BOY, could I tell the difference! I thought I was driving a Ford F-350 with a 4-inch SkyJacker lift! Couldn't wait to get back into my sweetly dropped ride.

Another thing is the improved cornering and reduced body roll (noticeable on 270-degree freeway onramps) & wind shear (on windy freeways in general). Lowering also helps with your mpg, as less air travels beneath the car causing turbulence. Take-off "squat" and braking "nosedive" are also reduced quite a bit. Your ride will stiffen, or "tighten up" - but not overly so. Of all the lowered vehicles I've owned & driven, the HHR (lowered), is the smoothest riding of the bunch. Craig at Gold-Line did an GREAT job with the rates on these springs!

Last but not least, I was driving slowly through a parking lot the other day, and what should appear right before my eyes? A "stock" HHR in the same color as mine. I saw the stock grille, and how high the car was sitting in relation to mine and immediately thought "Grandma Car."

Funny how your perspective changes after a few mods...

 

I have to agree with SoCal. my HHR is by far the smothest riding lowered car I've owned. I used the SpringTech springs, they didn't lower the back as much as the front.


I've now owned 8 cars that I have lowered.
Just call me Old School.

 

I love the flames! I didn't notice them before.

 

Yeah, kind suttle. I need to pinstripe to meet up to the flames now.

 

Wow, cool pinstripe flames

 

I like the lowered HHRS but up here in heavy snow country you would get stuck all the time. I got stuck in 9" of snow driving in the driveway. Partly because of a plowed up bank I did not see under the newly fallen snow. 13" total that day.

 

Here is my lowered HHR in the snow. What's the Problem?


Just kidding, I know there is a big difference between 4" and 13" +.