springs
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RE: springs
you NEED shocks that can handle the drop a set of lowering springs give you. You stock shocks will blow out within 6 months pretty much gauranteed with a 1-2" drop. Youre going to have to spend a lot more than $300 to do it right. So if you cant afford it right now id hold off until you can or else youll be taking everything appart again to fix it in no time.
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Joined: Nov 2006
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From: LaCrescent, MN
RE: springs
So the only thing that could go wrong is in 6 months or so your old shocks MIGHT blow out and you will have to take it apart and replace them? I mean really, if that is all that will go wrong, whats the big deal?
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RE: springs
ORIGINAL: alias747
So the only thing that could go wrong is in 6 months or so your old shocks MIGHT blow out and you will have to take it apart and replace them? I mean really, if that is all that will go wrong, whats the big deal?
So the only thing that could go wrong is in 6 months or so your old shocks MIGHT blow out and you will have to take it apart and replace them? I mean really, if that is all that will go wrong, whats the big deal?
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,953
From: Redding, California 1998.5 A4 1.8TQM
RE: springs
save your pennies and go for H&R springs(sport or race, depends on what kind of driving you do) and then some bilstein shocks, you'll be set cheapest deal I've seen was 728$
http://www.awe-tuning.com/pages/shar...RBilsteinCombo
good luck!
Edit: If you just do lowering springs, you are litterally driving on luck....and depending on luck you might make it to (add something important here), or you might.....not
http://www.awe-tuning.com/pages/shar...RBilsteinCombo
good luck!
Edit: If you just do lowering springs, you are litterally driving on luck....and depending on luck you might make it to (add something important here), or you might.....not
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3
RE: springs
Yeah your shocks will eventually blow, but for some people it is worth riding on them for now. I would go ahead and install the springs yourself, it only takes a couple hours. Then install the shocks once you get your cake up. So really all you would be losing is your own time, and possibly ruining your stock shocks. Not to mention you could get good at messing with the suspension.
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Joined: May 2005
Posts: 2,325
From: Oregon
RE: springs
ORIGINAL: whitey0212
i was talking to a cert. audi tech he said he never heard of shocks blowing out b/c of lowering the car an inch or two...ive never heard of that happening and ive been around cars for awhile
i was talking to a cert. audi tech he said he never heard of shocks blowing out b/c of lowering the car an inch or two...ive never heard of that happening and ive been around cars for awhile
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RE: springs
ORIGINAL: blackonblack
Yeah your shocks will eventually blow, but for some people it is worth riding on them for now. I would go ahead and install the springs yourself, it only takes a couple hours. Then install the shocks once you get your cake up. So really all you would be losing is your own time, and possibly ruining your stock shocks. Not to mention you could get good at messing with the suspension.
Yeah your shocks will eventually blow, but for some people it is worth riding on them for now. I would go ahead and install the springs yourself, it only takes a couple hours. Then install the shocks once you get your cake up. So really all you would be losing is your own time, and possibly ruining your stock shocks. Not to mention you could get good at messing with the suspension.