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













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.

Car before the lift

figuring out how it works

new stuff looking awesome

Old shock vs new shock

Old coil vs new coil

old trailing arm vs new

Car done with only the front lift. Good comparason between 40mm vs 100mm lift

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.

Bolt that would not go through

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.