When you find need to pimp your car there’s one thing that you’ve got to do, and that is lower your suspension. I mean nothing compares to a car that is low on the ground, and then on top of it all, a lowered car generally has better road handling characteristics as Bre discusses in our section on the suspension tuning! However, there are a few catches when it comes to lowering your suspension. Car manufacturers give the car a ride height because they need to take speed bumps, uneven road surface, passenger comfort and road noise into consideration when they produce the car. So when you lower your suspension you also need to take these things into consideration because if you just lower the suspension by cutting your coil springs then you’ll end up fouling your wheel arches against your tires, for example. You could flare your wheel arches to fit over your tires, which is the easy solution, or you could stiffen your suspension to reduce the suspension travel, which is the better solution. And if you’re going to do it properly, then it means that simply cutting your existing coil springs is not an option. You should instead get your hands on a lowering kit with stronger, beefier coil springs, and uprated dampers, but before you rush out to get a lowering kit you need to take your car’s weight into account as cars of different weights need different suspension characteristics. A heavier car requires a stiffer suspension than a light car. Hence, you need to make sure the lowering kit is designed for your car’s weight.

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