Should I Fit Lowering Springs To My A45?

Even with the right dampers and springs it’ll inevitably have less travel so it’ll always be worse. Depends on how much you’re willing to put up with.
 
mrk said:
The main question to ask is do you want to look like a chav teenager or not? Very rare to see a modern everyday car put on lowering springs and look well composed for both sporting driving and decency/class.
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Have you not read any of the OPs posts before? He's already OCUKs biggest chav, i don't think lowering his car will reaffirm that status anymore.
 
To me that pic in the OP is a bit too low for me however i'm going to swim against the tide and say some slight lowering springs would be fine.

I've done this when we had an MX5 and the ride was the same, i couldn't tell any difference in harshness. Sure in an ideal world you want exactly matched dampers and springs but if you're just driving on the road i'd use subtle lowering springs without worrying about it.
 
It's why I never understand people who spend £1000 extra for a specific colour. You can barely see the colour from inside the car!

Better to spend that £1000 on a useful optional extra, or performance bump IMO
 
I think it's probably because they're spending a lot of money on the car already and would probably prefer it in a colour they wanted instead of the primary colours offered? I mean it's not really a difficult concept.
 
VincentHanna said:
It's why I never understand people who spend £1000 extra for a specific colour. You can barely see the colour from inside the car!

Better to spend that £1000 on a useful optional extra, or performance bump IMO
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Such an odd thing to say, unless you live in your car, you would see the colour every day, especially when getting in/out.

I dont go so far as to pick a custom colour and pay thousands to do so (would if I could), but for most cars met. Paint is an option and it’s worth it to pick a colour you like :confused:

OT - I’ve run H&R springs before and I thought they were fine, matched to OE shocks. I put new shocks on at the time, because it seemed silly to put uprated springs on tired suspension.

If I was 19 and doing this again, I would look towards a bilstein kit of springs and shocks.
 
Temujin said:
I think it's probably because they're spending a lot of money on the car already and would probably prefer it in a colour they wanted instead of the primary colours offered? I mean it's not really a difficult concept.
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Fine, if you have the money

I've had some colours before on cars that I wouldn't have chosen myself (My grey E91 330d for instance), but that was the best deal for a specific spec of used car at the time.

More recently my contract hire was from stock - An E200 AMG Line Premium Plus + Driving assistance plus pack, has some super expensive Designo white paint job, and it came with 20" AMG multi spoke alloy wheels which don't do much for the ride quality.

And it's a pain, as before the car is due to go back and I have to get some minor paint damage sorted and it's quite expensive because of the paint.
 
Whilst H&R springs are exceptionally good, for a car like this, you want (need) it to be coilovers, otherwise Mercedes would have just chopped the springs up themselves.
 
The standard AMG already sits low. If you go super low like this it will inevitably have an impact on the ride harshness. I doubt it's a limo smooth car anyway so will you care?
 
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