#1: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pnut_man, Location: MiddlesbroughPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:40 am ---- are they important? and if i couldnt grind the whole thing off maby half?
Lowered my car at the weekend and its only 1inch of the ground all round, need to loose the sills as my coilovers have seized up and i cant raise it up.
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#2: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Rob2859, Location: HalifaxPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:09 am ---- You would not be able to jack the car up from the side.
#3: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pnut_man, Location: MiddlesbroughPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:12 am ---- well if i left a small bit of the sill still in place for jacking, each side? what are they for anyways? just jacking??
#4: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Rob2859, Location: HalifaxPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:26 am ---- It would probably just squash anyway. a normal jack bends the sills anyway unless its got a huge base plate. I don't know why Peugeot even recommend jacking it there.
I would get a second opinion before you go ahead but I doubt they are structurally integral. I have bashed and squashed mine to hell and its not split in half.
#5: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pnut_man, Location: MiddlesbroughPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:52 am ---- yeah mine are pretty battered too. was thinking of cutting them off because it will be cleaner than bending them, but yeah, all i really need to know for sure is if they are structurally integral. if not then bye bye sills!
#6: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Edward, Location: In the garagePosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:39 pm ---- Thats the seam where the inner and outer sill are welded together...If you've mangled it by jacking it up there then you've not been very nice to the car.
Use a trolley jack with a 12" block of 2" thick timber between the jack head and the box sections under the floor. If your car is too low then drive up some blocks of timber to get more height.
#7: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pnut_man, Location: MiddlesbroughPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:54 pm ---- Im pretty sure my car doesn't like me eddy, however i know how to jack my car up, i just need to know if the sills need to be on the car.
#8: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: macca1411, Location: Westhoughton, LancashirePosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:56 pm ---- The sills make up part of the strength of the car. Cut them off and if you get hit by or run into something then you will increase the chance of the car folding in 2 and mangling you against the steering wheel.
Go for it, it could be entertaining.
#9: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pnut_man, Location: MiddlesbroughPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:58 pm ---- No need to be bitchy macca, its just a question.
#10: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Edward, Location: In the garagePosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:00 pm ---- Apart from all that they aren't important.
#11: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pnut_man, Location: MiddlesbroughPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:05 pm ---- cool. ill just cut em off then, no harm in a little steering wheel mangling every now and then.
#12: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:08 pm ----
#13: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: LeeThr, Location: North West WalesPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:28 pm ---- Who's making the popcorn then?
#14: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: HDI90, Location: sunny stokePosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:03 pm ---- Is this a joke?
#15: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: pug206lx, Location: Taking a gearbox off somewherePosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 4:39 pm ----
pnut_man wrote:
cool. ill just cut em off then
Don't expect the car to see an MOT pass certificate again.
#16: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: macca1411, Location: Westhoughton, LancashirePosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:16 pm ---- It would be an interesting modification to inform the insurance about. The premium would probably be slightly less than a convicted 17 yr old drink driver trying to insure a Bugatti Veyron.
#17: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:19 pm ---- If the car has been lowered so much that bits of the bodyshell need grinding of then there is no hope
#18: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: D4NTP, Location: Not Leeds or its surrounding areas!Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:31 pm ---- Claws are really out over this question aren't they.
#19: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: dan_manu, Location: Flintshire, North WalesPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:36 pm ---- yurrr :/ mate id recomend keeping the sills as for insurance and mot purposes and also because its safer with them, just drive the car onto a 2 post ramp or block of wood and then jack it up then. it sounds to be ridiculously low tho
#20: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Rob2859, Location: HalifaxPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:24 pm ---- In all fairness it is probably easier just to sort the coilovers out. Mine is only down about 40mm but I couldn't live with any-more than that.
#21: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: meady, Location: basingstokePosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:11 am ---- Why dont you just buy some new coilovers so you can raise it up a bit, seems a bit stupid wanting to cut bits of the car off as its to low.
And as has said it is the seam where the inner and outter sills are welded together so if you grind them off what is going to be holding them together???
#22: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: JordGJ, Location: Leeds / West MidlandsPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:18 am ----
pnut_man wrote:
are they important? and if i couldnt grind the whole thing off maby half?
Lowered my car at the weekend and its only 1inch of the ground all round, need to loose the sills as my coilovers have seized up and i cant raise it up.
+++ Help not hinder please +++
haha good lad alex... noone else understands do they
get some pics up of these new lows on here or facebook i wanna see
oh i'd bend rather than lose them all together though mate
#23: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Uz, Location: No Man's LandPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:11 am ---- Just do what I did with the XSi completely bent them up around so they sat on the outer sill. They were painted black so you couldn't see them from a distance.
#24: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: Edward, Location: In the garagePosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:29 am ---- Cut the sills off...you'll still be left with box sections under the floor that hang down the same amount!. Can you cut them off too?
#25: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: 206HdiGti, Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:04 am ----
macca1411 wrote:
It would be an interesting modification to inform the insurance about. The premium would probably be slightly less than a convicted 17 yr old drink driver trying to insure a Bugatti Veyron.
LOL
I can't believe the question at all. The sill is part of the chassis which is welded on. You have increased the stress on the chassis by lowering it the amount you have. By all means make it weaker.
#26: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: bezford, Location: darlingtonPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:40 am ---- Id be worried the floor would drop out at about 80 with a car full of mates carrying on...in fact it almost definately would...wot else do u reckon is holding floor up???anyway when u say sills i susspect u dont just mean the small thin joined crease at the bottom...u mean from the floor pan flat cut across which would be an interesting welding job at least...then cut a hole threw the bulk heads and thread the exhaust threw the interior because that would hang down...then cut the sump pan off and plate over the holes and as for the axles¿?¿?¿?¿?
I think peoples bad responses are a clue to how bad this idea is...just fix your susspension mate...for gods sakes.
#27: Re: What would happen if i ground my sills off? Author: NayNay1991x, Location: LeicesterPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:11 pm ----
macca1411 wrote:
Cut them off and if you get hit by or run into something then you will increase the chance of the car folding in 2 and mangling you against the steering wheel.
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