springs or coilovers?
04-04-2011, 09:51 PM
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Everyone has a different opinion and I'm just trying to find what the majority has to say. Coilovers are really expensive and springs are cheaper, but when i ask my friends they say springs die faster and you have to buy shocks and struts? i dont know anything about lowering cars (Sadly 
),but i drive my car everyday to commute so should i even bother lowering my car? oh and i already have sport suspension...
),but i drive my car everyday to commute so should i even bother lowering my car? oh and i already have sport suspension...
04-04-2011, 09:55 PM
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If you purchase just springs and use your OEM struts you will need to replace the struts since the two weren't made to be used together. Springs + Shocks are going to run around $800-1000.
What are you trying to accomplish? Just lower your car? Why do you want to lower it?
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What are you trying to accomplish? Just lower your car? Why do you want to lower it?
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04-05-2011, 04:55 AM
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I used lowering springs on my car then totally realizing I made a mistake when I went to go race the car at one of the local autox events I say coilovers and if u look around enough you can find some for a very good price but your still looking at the 800-3000 dollar range for them depending on how crazy you wanna go. Ontop of that Coilovers are adjustable so u can adjust them to the way u drive the car and the ride height you want
04-05-2011, 05:19 AM
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I am going to use coilovers so I can adjust the height if I want to. As a previous member said you can get coilovers priced not too much more than springs/struts.... KW / Ksports are brands that many use.
04-05-2011, 05:43 AM
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I went with Ksport coilovers. After factoring in the cost of the H&R springs, new Bilstein shocks and the labor to mount the springs on the shocks, I don't have a spring compressor, I decided to go with Ksports and just do the work myself since its a straight swap no spring compressor needed.
No complaints here.
I can jack the height up to OEM or slam it to the ground. You also get 36 levels of adjustable dampening with the Ksports. 
No complaints here.
I can jack the height up to OEM or slam it to the ground. You also get 36 levels of adjustable dampening with the Ksports.
04-05-2011, 05:44 AM
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with the ksports u need to reuse the oem rear mounts
04-05-2011, 12:28 PM
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really wow i looked and it said i had to reuse the stock mounts but i haven't gotten them yet so ill trust u on that
04-05-2011, 07:12 PM
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why oh why?another person bent on lowering.its not a honda civic bro.
Everyone has a different opinion and I'm just trying to find what the majority has to say. Coilovers are really expensive and springs are cheaper, but when i ask my friends they say springs die faster and you have to buy shocks and struts? i dont know anything about lowering cars (Sadly ),but i drive my car everyday to commute so should i even bother lowering my car? oh and i already have sport suspension...
),but i drive my car everyday to commute so should i even bother lowering my car? oh and i already have sport suspension...