It looks like it would Chris, but it wouldn’t
They do look very close to the ground and I was very concerned at first but in 18 months mine has never touched a single thing. Bumpy farm tracks, speed humps, potholes, general everyday driving.....nothing! And my van is fully loaded at all times as most of you know.
The 4 U bolts which hold the axle to the arm are the closest thing to the ground and I’ve purposely left them protruding long out of the locknuts (I did initially want to cut the excess off the bottoms) so I could see if they got scraped on anything. They also haven’t touched a single thing to my surprise.
This set up has only been that low since the revised round tube arms were used in place of the square box arms which had notches cut in them that all subsequently cracked and bent because they weren’t strengthened in the notch (terrible and very dangerous design). The axle now sits ‘on top’ of the round arms where it was originally designed to sit ‘in’ the notch of the square ones. This makes the trailing arms and its bolts and the o/s panhard rod pick up point sit much lower to the ground than they did with the box arms and the O/S panhard rod itself now sit at a different angle to what it originally did.
Despite the worryingly low look to the rear suspension, the handling and feel didn’t change at all after I changed to the revised set up so it’s still a million times better than a floating axle.
I spoke to intermotive about my concerns regarding how low it was since the revision and they simply weren’t interested in finding a fix. I’ve since got over it and no longer give it a thought when I’m going over speed bumps etc because if it was going to hit anything it would have happened by now.