Hi all,
Often I have to carry a lot of cargo.
The XD gets so low that I am blinding everyone in front with my headlights, even though I load as far forward as I can.
What would help?
Would the TRD springs stop it dropping so much, or the coil overs or something from Tanabe.
I suppose I am looking for something like helper springs similar to what you can get for trucks.
I must admit though that when it is loaded up, it does look cool that low though. I am assuming that this prevents me from getting larger wheels or lowering shocks
The wheels are almost rubbing when it gets really heavy.

 

How much weight are you putting back there? You're not supposed to carry more than 800 or something. Read your manual. As far as your actual problem, nothing would probably work except for maybe getting coilovers with a strong spring rate, and jack them all the way up, but I don't know how much that gives you. All the springs that are out, are for lowering your car. Which you don't want.

 

Well the only thing that would best solve you problem is getting hydraulic or air suspension. It’s not cheap and you would have to get someone to custom make it for an XD

 

you can also look into coilovers since they are adjustable, and raise the height when neccessary...

 

Thank you for the responses everyone.
I normally load about 1250 pounds of magazines in boxes unevenly distributed. I have about 200 pounds on the floor by the front seat then another 100 pounds in each of the rear seat foot wells and then I fold the seats down and the rest is spread out on the flattened seats with the majority towards the front of the vehicle to keep the headlights down as much as possible.
It isn't all in the little well at the back.

 

Well if tmrepp is right about the maxium load capacity, right they're going way over it.

How about doing two trips instead of one?

 

Hi ChelsDS,
I appreciate the suggestion, but that wouldn't work.
I am delivering magazines to over 140 locations on a route, so to do extra trips back home to reload would cost too much. I am already splitting the route up into 4 sets.
Thanks though.

 

Not to be a ***** about this, but you should have taken into consideration what you needed the car to be able to haul...

Manual, page 270...845lbs.

 

instead of spending the money to make your car able to handle that, why dont you go out and buy a $1500 pickup or something that is made for that? it will cost a lot less then totaling you car when you make the back wheels crush into your trunk. i was hesitant to put 400-500lbs of slate flooring in the back of mine, i cant imagine 1250lbs!!! even if you fixed up the suspension to handle that, the chassis may not, not to mention the extra stress on the drivetrain. youll probably need a new clutch after 5,000 miles at that weight, lol.

 

Exactly, there isn't just structural reasons why that weight shouldn't be exceeded.

 

Should try out a set of air shocks. Simple and easy solution to help keep the vehicle level when carrying a load. Or just carry alittle less and make an extra trip if neccessary...Your car gets good gas mileage, unlike a pickup truck, so u can do the extra trip without a problem.

 

but then hes gonna have the extra expense of new brake pads every like 2,000 miles, new clutch, tires... and with the front end being lifted much higher than its designed height and having to pull the extra weight, im sure the axle's spiders along with their boots are going to wear fast as hell too. its not just the suspension that has handle the weight, its the entire car. carrying more weight is more work, and more work is going to create accelerated wear along the ENTIRE drive train. and this car wont be getting good gas mileage hauling 50% more of its weight around.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions guys and gals. Much appreciated.

I do love the XD and don't want to do harm, so I suppose I will just split the runs again and do extra trips.

On the plus side, with splitting the load, I get to drive more!!!!!