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Lowering Springs vs. coilovers

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Old Aug 27, 2005 | 10:47 AM
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Lowering Springs vs. coilovers

My Turbo has lowering springs. Can someone give me a short explaination on how the car would look and behave with coilovers. I do not do track driving.
 
Old Aug 27, 2005 | 11:18 AM
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With coilovers you can adjust how your car looks, and handles. With springs there is no adjustability with them. I would choose coilovers because its the shock/spring combination that were made to work together. With springs (if there on your stock shocks) may not work right and may run risk of actually hurting the handling on your car then helping it.
 
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duff's right in the sense that coilovers will have the correct shock/spring combo...having only springs will cause the oem shocks to be overworked...you'll need to change the shocks around 2 years
 
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Here's my explanation

Coilover=$4,000 (adjustable ride,comfort etc.)

Springs= $500 (roughy)

 
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How it would look?

Well.......if you 'want' it to be this low, it's possible to make it this low

 
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Originally posted by alex911s
Here's my explanation

Coilover=$4,000 (adjustable ride,comfort etc.)

Springs= $500 (roughy)

4k for coilovers... more on the 2500-3k range...

but coilovers give u all the adjustability on the road fromt he ride height, dampening etc... u can dial your car in the way u want it..
 
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the gap is getting smaller & smaller since someone here is blowing out the coilovers.
 
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Originally posted by 02barebones996
4k for coilovers... more on the 2500-3k range...

but coilovers give u all the adjustability on the road fromt he ride height, dampening etc... u can dial your car in the way u want it..
Oh my bad that's the Cayenne coilover , youre right
 
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if you want show, go with lowering spring.
if you want to actually drive, coil overs.
 
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