DON’T BUY LOWERING SPRINGS | Here's why

Lowering springs are the most affordable way to lower your car. But just throwing some lowered springs onto your stock suspension isn’t necessarily going to give you the performance benefits you are looking for.

In this video, I discuss why it’s so important to pair lowering springs with matching shocks and struts. I’ll also talk about the advantages of fully adjustable coilovers and why you might consider those instead.

BMW 330xi suspension/ wheels:
H&R Sport lowering springs
Bilstein B8 shocks and struts
VMR V801 19x8.5 +35 front, 19x9.5 +35 rear
Continental ExtremeContact DWS 06 235/35/19 front, 265/30/19 rear

Scion FR-S suspension/ wheels:
Tein Flex Z coilovers
Cosmis XT-206R 17x8 +30
Continental ExtremeContact Sport 225/45/R17

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[Jedi_Luke]

I've been on Tein springs with factory struts for over 2 years with no issues. It rides near stock comfort. Springs are perfectly fine for a daily. This video needs to be labeled "Cheap Springs are bad"

[whittleturtle]

If your on a budget i rather do shocks and springs than buying cheap coilovers 🤔

[JuanRamos-vjzo]

The correct lowering springs will work with an OEM struts and you won’t loose suspension features such as adaptive dampening. You will loose it with coilovers.

[ZeD]

Actually lowering spring paired with the correct shocks will still give you much better performance and handling than cheap coilovers.

[ayske]

Lowering Springs because I drive a non turbo Mazda. Also because I'm 34 with two kids 🥴🥴

Edited: every quarter someone asks what's an NA Mazda 🙄🙄🙄

[irungunduta]

This guy is one of the most genuine guys I have seen on youtube. I do a Subaru but I like watching Justins videos

[Guilhermepalmeida]

I'm just gonna share my opinion based on what i've experienced. I've had both coilovers and shock plus sport springs and i'll definitely recommend a good set of shock and spring and here ir why:
On one hand you're stucked to the height but on the other hand you're perfectly confortable that the spring rate and the shock will get the best combo you can get because it was projected for the best compromise between ride comfort and performance.
And these examples are for Koni Sport/Bilstein B8 + Eibach Sportline/ Prokit or H&R
When you're buying a coilover you basically buying a set of spring and shock that will have to deal with a large set of height configurations and it will never get the job done like a good set of springs and shocks.
It is just not possible, unless we're talking about a KW or Bilstein or Koni and so on but most of the coilovers will much better give you a good looking car than a comfort and performance balanced setup ;)

[calinikkalife]

Im just looking for aesthetics, i just wanna lower the car. Springs it is!! Just saved myself 1300$

[billynguyen]

I have the Eibach pro kit lowering springs on a 2018 GTI. Had them installed about a month after purchasing the car brand new, at about 1k miles. It’s a mild drop, about an inch which isn’t really extreme on the stock shocks. Obviously coilovers are better as stated in the video, but wanted to comment that lowering springs will work well too, assuming your shocks and struts are newish. I’m at 20k miles today, and they feel fine. Not too harsh, and still has the new car ride feel.

[roimatatamihana]

Bro lowering springs are fine just buy ones from a reputable brand such as tein and make sure they are designed specifically for your car

[FrostRPMs]

I got Eibach lowering springs, and got new oem shocks and struts at the same time, and was AMAZING on my Mazda 3. No roll, no bounce, stiff, and worked great.

[edgartorres]

Depends on what you want honestly. Springs is good for a daily if you want to lower and keep the ride smooth. Coil overs is if you want to either slamm and or adjust to a perfect fit but it’ll be a much more rough ride imo

[billwilson]

After several years of trying to tuff it out with H&R springs front and rear on my 2012 Fiat 500 I finally had to replace them with my original stock springs. The H&R ride became increasingly more harsh. Even though I replaced the struts and shocks the ride was still very stiff and harsh but less bouncy. It’s a relief now to have restored the stock ride.

[fenderbender]

Correct springs will work with OEM struts and not cause unneeded wear as long its in the OEM strut travel range. Coilovers are harsher even if you can adjust the dampening, Springs will allow you to keep the OEM ride quality. You also need to consider why you are lowering your car is it for tracking or just closing wheel gap with some cornering improvement. Installing coilovers and living in an area where there are speed bumps, poor roads, potholes, curbs etc will just cause you headaches this is why you would consider springs with OEM ride quality but just be prepared to "eventually replace your struts in another 35K miles or so.

[Nbdy-tjrf]

I bought some AGX struts and H&R springs for my 98 Impreza L Coupe. I haven't installed them yet so I've been watching videos about the pros and cons, so thank you for this video.

[nathanyoung]

Running H&R springs and Koni shocks on my Legacy GT and couldn’t be happier. Way better than any coilover at the price point of this pair (about $800) and it’s very comfy, looks lowered, and handles better than a cheap coilover from BC or Tein. You lose some of that “riding on rails” feeling you get from using rubber top hats rather than the hard ones on coilovers, but it’s much better for NVH and I’m already at my threshold with an exhaust and engine/trans mounts.

[papi-champoo]

You'll be alright with factory shocks and struts on lowering springs.

[SoHoDon_]

Idk I kinda like stock ride height lol, maybe that’s the cheapness in me because I don’t want to spend $1400 on some Coilovers

[hugogarcia]

I just installed lowering springs and bought cheap oem generic shocks for my E46, worst decision ever, specially the back end bounces really bad, now I need sport shocks for the back at least (and will pray it matches the spring rate!) you’re absolutely right, save extra money and get the preassembled system

[zackvalen]

This is literally what i've been looking for, the answer, thank you for a simple and straight forward video.