Ride height for E70
 

Quickly asking if anyone has (for reasons known to them) thought of increasing the e70 ride height to gain a bit of more ground clearance.

We have the 2007 3.0si with sport suspension, 7 seats, staggered wheels and rear air springs.

It's used a bit in the rough sometimes (yes yes, don't ask) and a bit of more ground clearance would go along way.

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It's been discussed here and on "xbimmers" and I think a couple people might be behind the scenes looking at 1" spacers and things like that. I know in the Porsche community, doing mild off-roading in Cayenne's is becoming a thing. Only a matter of time until it gets onto X5's I would think. I don't do any real off road stuff in mine but I live in the country on a crappy dirt road and also being a Michigander I would love to take the X5 onto the dunes and what not some day. I have been researching other things I can do while I'm waiting for some kind of 1" or something to come out.....

- Switching to 18" rims to increase side wall height
- Custom fab belly pan
- Possible front guard/light bar of some sort
- Rear swing away carrier integrated into the trailer hitch
- Custom roof basket-esque thing
- On and on and on. Haha!

I think the biggest draw back of our X5's over the Cayenne for example is the AWD system. Porsche allows for diff locking and varying suspension settings which is huge right out of the gate. Unless someone can hack the computer for the transfer case I don't think there is a way to drive all 4 wheels at the same time 100% of the time. I may be wrong but I haven't seen anything that says otherwise.

All that being said; if you just want to hit some mild trails and bum around the mountains throw on a bit more of an aggressive tread tire and have at it. There are a couple people on here that do stuff like that with pretty much stock X5's.

How about some coil spring spacers for the front and adjusting the rear air springs to the highest setting?

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/s...hoCRxsQAvD_BwE

coilovers. Added benefit of being able to change spring rates and damping for off road. Bigger tires and/or larger profile as well.

I'm not aware of any current off the shelf coil over offerings for X5's that would allow for an increase in height. I've looked into. I contacted BC and they could custom build something that would allow it but it would be very expensive and only give a marginal lift. I think (at least for those of us w/o air) either a spacer insert on top of the struts or maybe even some kind of sub frame lift would be cheaper, if you can fabricate stuff or have a friend who can.