Coding Out Factory Air Suspension

[PoLonY]

While I don't think anyone has tried this, I don't see why you could not adjust config to match what the car without the rear air would be set to. 

I can try to help when you get to this, I think there may be some not-obvious configurations in addition to disable air suspension, such as the height sensor config, what should it be, which I am not sure about. There are sensors inside the air springs but I am not sure if the air susp car has an external height sensor like the non-air car would have. You can drop me a line at support email and I would try to help you sort that out.

I would be interested in doing this as well. About to pick up a 2017 S90 T6 individual with the factory rear air suspension and active shocks

I wish to fit aftermarket air suspension all round and disable the active shocks etc to lower the vehicle 

I’ll be looking at purchasing Orbit if this is a possibility to do

Hi PoLonY,

Thank you so much for the detailed response! I think your experience is really helpful in figuring out whether we can lower SPA cars with factory air suspension.

I have a 2018 V90CC, and so far I lowered the front with Heico springs; reusing the factory adaptive shocks.

For the rear, I used a type of "Ghostlink"/ Adjustable rear link for the level sensors. I shortened the link 5mm from factory, so the car lowers itself ~1" without having to mess with any coding or calibrations. 

I do want to switch the suspension out to coilovers, but I know the "Suspension Fault" will be inevitable if I leave the adaptive shock connectors unplugged. My question is -- What kind of testing / resistor did you use to trick the car into thinking it still has OEM adaptive shocks?

I know on other platforms, wiring in a 20W 8 Ohm Load Resistor usually does the trick, but wanted to see what type you used so I can try to replicate it.

Thank you

No problem at all

I am in contact with Andrew at Orbit Support regarding this and will be continuing to make changes etc to my config in an attempt to find a work around.

Regarding the cancellers, i went down the rabbit hole on this and found many different results etc, so i took some info from the P2 guys as well as the VAG community on the MQB chassis.

I used a 4.8mH 2.6ohm +-10% inductor and a 5ohm 25 watt 1% resistor (these were what i could find locally that were closest to the suggested 5mH inductor for example) and got the correct plug ends so it was totally plug and play, made myself a lil PVC tube setup and plugged them in. As said the front delete worked perfectly when the rears remain plugged in, with all 4 cancellers plugged in the suspension code popped up, so it may require a higher mH inductor as i also had the inductors fitted over a bolt for an iron core to increase the mH, so i might just be a lil change needed there. I measured the struts as 8ohm resistance so i know that the total value for ohm (7.8ish) i have on my cancellers is bang on. 

So if you keep the rear factory air with the ghost links then my setup will work for the front to fit coilovers.

I used this page as my guide to what the cancellers look like internally in general and for the part numbers for the connectors etc:

https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/index.php...re.380886/

The front wiring from the shock plug goes into the fender liner to the same plug type as listed in that link, so i connected it there and tucked the canceller away behind the liner