depends how much you want to drop and how you want to lower your car. only lowering springs, lowering spring with aftermarket struts, coliovers, with or without camber kit. i went with tein s-tech lowering springs. but all those options would range from maybe $200 to $1000.

 

are those rims chrome?

 

^ they look like silver to me

 

that good lol i hate chrome ew

 

i work with a mechanic who suggested heating the springs to lower the car.. what kind of problems could come from this?

 

DO NOT heat the springs to drop the car. The heating will cause metallurgical issues that can cause the springs to fail prematurely... like, break. That would be bad.

Save your pennies and buy a decent kit to lower your car - stay away from the eBay junk as well. You'll be in much better shape if you do it right.

That harsher ride you're feeling is because the tires have much less sidewall that your old tires/rims. Sidewalls of tires are actually part of the suspension system, in the way that they absorb a lot of the shock when hitting bumps and other things in the road. The less sidewall, the harsher (stiffer) the ride. You can 'soften' the ride a little by lowering the air pressure in any tire... however, considering how little sidewall you have on those wheels, you won't want to run anything less than the minimum pressure found on the sidewall. In fact, you'll need to check your air pressure even more often now, since you may not visually notice if you have a 'low' or flat tire as easily now.

Since I stuffed the 205/40R-16s under my hatch, I actually walk around the car to make sure all 4 tires are up before I go anywhere. 2" of sidewall gone flat is not easy to see from the other side of the car.

You're just going to have to get used to it - there's no 'breaking in' or anything involved... it is what it is.


You guys also have no idea what ground clearance is if you think that car is 'up high' or 'flyin'. Here's one of my other cars:


My hatch doesn't even come up to the hood... and it's not lowered either.


BTW - your car looks sharp with those new wheels on. Congratulations on a great buy.

 

Really nice rims, I like the fact that you didn't go chrome, or some random color tone. I do agree with the others, do the lowering the right way though other wise you will end up out of quite a bit of money and the car will be in worse shape. I love the rims though, congrats on a good buy.

 

i think they're ugly but i think a lot of stuff's ugly, so don't feel bad or take it personally.

 

to heat your stock springs, ride horrible and unsafe. if your really on a budget and really want to lower your car a bit, use Tein S-techs. thay cost less than $200 on ebay.

btw... i can't believe your mechanic told you to heat the springs. if anything happens to you or your car, is he liable for it lol

 

hahah well hes not 'my mechanic' jus like a 21 year old kid i work with he went to auto school n stuff.. ill actually prolly have him help me put on the springs. thanks for the comments guys and ill deffinatly be sure to check tire pressure and stuff type rb.. you bring up good points.