I mean $4,000 is like the entry point for ultra high end, custom racing set ups - but yea I don’t think my dude put JRZs on his Passat

Or used it for a downpayment on a new Passat. 

For $4k he could have went with a nice air system...and went over any speed bump and still tracked the car. https://www.airliftperformance.com/

even my Ohlins were $2700 and I can go over speed bumps just fine but not tow trucks apparently.

Yeah, he should have realized the issues lowering would cause. I lowered mine a few inches, and I rub on some things but I avoid the known obstacles. If I was really worried, i would have spent the money on air-ride bags. Deal with it. *puts on shades*

This is the 21st century with Amazon shipping.  This guy is an idiot.

$4k is air-ride territory, so this moron got ripped off as well...

In traditional Irish, please:

Yeah, $500 is “fresh”; $1000 is “sweet”; $2500 is “best available”. $4000 is “they saw you coming, didn’t they, sunshine?”

He spent $20 on a Harbor Freight angle grinder and $3,980 on shitty cutting discs to cut his stock springs?

It’s Ireland, the English are only welcome as tourists, also give us back our land in the north.  The English can get as bent as this guy in the article.

I’m incredibly confused by the cost....

Or he could have upgraded his suspension without dramatically altering the ride height.

In my perfect world, yours would have been the only reply to this story.

“whinging”..... it’s Ireland, show some research.

Or he could have spent nothing and kept his stock springs.

There once was an idiot from Limerick,

$4k to lower an old Passat? Seems like a lot of money, maybe should have spent a little more $$ and got a system that could have raised the car over the bumps...

Correct but AT is one of the major listing sites, it is incredibly rare for a listing to appear on a place like CarGurus and Cars.com and not already cross-listed on AT. It happens but not often, so there could be a few more cars out there, but there isn’t going to be like another 50 manual G70s.

Tom, not all dealers list their cars on Autotrader, correct? So the actual number of cars could be more?