Reading a spring/strut thread, I remembered something I saw a while back. Back in the early 90s I lived in Italy and my neighbor had a Renault sedan (it was a model made only in Europe, one of their sport/luxury line I can't recall the model)....anyhow, one day I was talking with him about the car and he showed me that it had electronically adjustable suspension. It had 2 settings - low, which was used on the highway and also when it parked (to make it easier to get out, I guess?) and high, which put the ground clearance about where a stock 5th-gen maxima is from what I remember. The difference was about a 3-4 inch drop (pretty extreme) and all you had to do was hit a button.

Anyone seen anything like this before?

 

I highly doubt it was a 3-4 inch drop, stock maxima height in high, minus the 3 or 4 inches to low, would mean that the maxima is almost slammed on the ground...

The only thing i've seen like this adjustment is adjustable coilovers, and those are not electric...

 

It was pretty damn significant. When on the low setting, the wheels were an inch or so up into the wheel-wells - looked like a low-rider. On the high setting it looked kind of 4x4-ish (like a stock max, but maybe it was higher)....remember this was like 10 years ago, so memory's a little rusty.

And it's a French car, so I'm sure it was useless anyhow.....

 

that sounds so cool. i wish i was right so i could go invent some to fit on a max.

 

FOUND IT - It was a Citroen, not a Renault, and they are still using that technology. Check out this link:

http://www.citroen.com/site/htm/en/t...ay/hydractive3

 

yeah sound pretty cool on the citroen!!

But it's about 1" of suspension that change
lower by 15mm, increase by 13 = 26mm
1" = 25,4mm

Far from the 3-4".......3/4 maybe right though

 

Air suspension or air adj shocks, they used to come on the Subaru Legacy wagon,and I last saw it on Audi S4 Avants I think...