I had done a lot of reading & research online, I knew I wanted to do the suspension properly and once. Not bit by bit. I first did a 40mm spacer lift just to get the idea of the cars handling etc. These served me well and did a good few trails with them. It was now time to go to the next level.

The kit I decided to go for was a 100mm / 4″ full kit from a Turkish company called 4xfourt art. One has to import the kit. I opted to go for the higher end Koni shocks over the Monroe shocks and also ordered a custom blue paint job.

The kit includes the following:

FRONT COIL SPRING

REAR COIL SPRING

SHOCK ABSORBER FRONT

SHOCK ABSORBER REAR

REAR LATERAL ROD BRACKET

FRONT LATERAL ROD BRACKET

FRONT LATERAL ROD

REAR LATERAL ROD

FRONT TRAILING ARM, LEFT

FRONT TRAILING ARM, RIGHT

REAR TRAILING ARM, LEFT

REAR TRAILING ARM, RIGHT

BRAKE HOSE x 3

SPECIAL ROD END

4WD TRANSFER CASE BRACKET – LEFT

4WD TRANSFER CASE BRACKET – RIGHT

4WD TRANSFER CASE FRONT SHAFT FLANGE

REAR SHAFT FLANGE

FRONT COIL STOPPER

REAR COIL STOPPER

BUSHINGS – REGULAR

BUSHINGS – BALL JOINT

Unpacking the kit

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Installing the kit

Installing the kit was not done under ideal circumstances. The kit arrived at 3 pm the day before I was leaving for our Baboons pass trip. We immediately went down to the car shop across the road and asked to use their lift and started installing the front.

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At 5 PM they politely kicked me out of the shop. at this stage, only the front had been installed, except for 1 bolt that we could not get in. had to stick a screwdriver in there for the short trip.

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Once this was done I was able to drive it to a friend’s house (with a very tall front) where we continued to install the rear of the kit. This took quite some time, at about 2 AM I left with a very lifted car and drove home to pack for the trip.