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Hi all, I have just got back from a very enjoyable holiday on the mainland and covered a massive amount of miles on the motorways. Whilst I was up in Scotland and the Lake District, I found that my car wallowed everywhere, probably due to being on the standard suspension set up for a boring Titanium. Whats the best option to stiffen the suspension up a bit? Not looking at going mad and probably won't want much of a drop in height either, but just something so she doesn't wallow so much! My parent's loved the car, apart from driving them back from a day out in Inverness as they said the car made them both feel travel sick (a curse that has never blighted our family). Its not the first time someone has commented on this travel sick feeling when being in the back of the Titanium and makes me wonder if it is the super wallowly suspension. Is the Zetec S setup the best thing to go for? Or should I look at the Eibach system that Ford retail? I've never changed suspension on a car before so any assistance (not in the actual changing of the springs, I'll get my friend to do that!) in what the best setup would be I would be grateful!

Cheers!

Got the eibach pro kit springs on my titanium, lower it by about 30mm and sharpen the handling up but without sacrificing ride comfort. If you're handy with the spanners it should only take a couple of hours to fit them, rears can be done in about 15 mins flat!

Did you increase the tyre pressures to cope with the extra loads of the rear passengers? If not, then it would definitely be a wallowy old Hector...

The TDCI TITanium only has approx 4 inches of ground clearance at the front with a 9.5st driver in . Lower suspension AND 3 passengers isn't going to help that

Yeah I certainly did pump up the tyres, fronts to 35 & rears to 46 as per the manual! I would imagine if I'd left them untouched from the 26 at the rear I'd be all over the place! On the plus side I did average 68.7MPG over the whole journey which was impressive!