Patent ID: 7976030

Claim:
A device for adjusting the height from the ground of the body of a motor vehicle having a bearing spring which is connected between a wheel guiding element of the wheel suspension and the body and which is supported on a spring disk which is vertically adjustable by way of an actuating device, and having an overload spring which limits a defined spring path in the deflection direction wherein the overload spring is provided with the actuating device, with which the overload spring is vertically adjustable, following the vertical adjustment of the spring disk, and wherein the bearing spring and the actuating device on the body side are located and coupled to a lower lying longitudinal member of the body of the vehicle and a shock absorber with the overload spring is located and coupled higher on a side wall of the body which adjoins the longitudinal member, and the toothed-gear drives of the overload spring and of the actuating device are coupled to one another by way of a flexible shaft.