beemerfreak

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Has it happened to anyone who installed just springs on there car.

How many miles after the install?

What brand Springs were they?

beemerfreak

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bump

Kracka

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Tein S-Tech springs (~2" drop) at 14k miles and still doing good.

gologo1

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Tein S-tech springs. 5 months max on car and the front driver side makes a clunking noise everytime I go over a bump. Performance shop guys say its blown and that I should go to coilovers. I think this sucks.

2StepsAhead

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26k on swift springs and no problems. Daily driven in Brooklyn, near a construction zone up until about 3 months ago lol.

lysy82

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i have ralliart on tein s 33k and its still good

Zeus

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This statement is somewhat dependent on spring rate, but I'd be willing to "bet the farm" that if people are "blowing" there factory over dampened struts/coilovers due to lowering springs, it has more to do with bottoming out the pistons than how "stiff" the springs are. In other words, go too low, run out of travel... get it?

rjdevo9_mr

35k, Espelir GT, still going strong

ashumo

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30k on my swifts and stock struts before I switched to KW. Not one problem.

Bom's Evo

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50k on Hotchkis going good. Almost time to go full coilovers.

GTWORX.com

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+1

some springs are sitting on the bumpstops at rest probably.


- drew

hokiruu

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I daily drove and drove hard (AutoX and canyon runs, etc) on S-Techs for at least 20k miles with the stock KYBs, only because they were on the car when I bought it, and kept slacking on replacing them until a few months ago. I even did some long high-speed washboard dirt road driving on them, which is surely harder on them than even road racing in terms of heat. When I replaced them with coilovers, they still seemed to be in good working condition. But without shock dyno plots, there is no way to be sure. Springs, even S-Techs, are not going to automatically blow the struts after X amount of miles. It is just likely that they will accelerate them wearing out, and there is no way to know when or how fast.