This statement is way over used lol, everyone says there roads suck. I say deal with it and just slam the car.

 

K come to Wisconsin after winter with your car slammed you'll look like a drunk driver with how much you have to swerve... And youlll **** your pants when you hit a nice crack and it will feel like your front end is going to fall off, i drove an si that was slammed and it was the worst ride and that was on blues with good coils on residential streets. Wisconsin is not low car friendly from driveways to the streets, when I say the roads suck I mean it

 

Oh, please. A slammed car isn't practical anywhere. The impracticality of it is one of the charming things about having a ridiculously low car. You want to talk about bad roads? Drive on over to western Pennsylvania; we're talking a rural area where 95% of the roads are back roads barely wide enough for two cars, and they're lucky if they get tar & chipped once a decade, much less paved.

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Do you see the skirts on my car here? 2" off the ground, I measured it when I put them on. I didn't hesitate to drive that thing on a daily basis all summer like that. I raised the car for the winter, put the stock skirts back on, and slammed it a little more the following summer, again with no unusual problems driving it. My point is there's a right way and a wrong way to drive a slammed car. Do it the wrong way and you'll high-center every speed bump. Do it the right way and you're still going to rub and scrape (anyone who tucks tire on coil springs and claims they don't rub or scrape at all is flat-out lying).

What I'm trying to say is if you don't want a dumped car, just say it; they're impractical, and anyone who owns a dumped car knows it. But don't blame it on the roads in your area. Yes, I did some damage to the car driving it like that; I broke front lips, scraped the header, rubbed tire on low-speed bumps, scratched up my rear lip, and one time tore the axle-back part of my exhaust off. But I still managed to DD it on the sh*tty roads in wPA with the same problems people with dumped civics have in any area.

 

Until you drive the roads in every state, your going to assume yours are below avg standards. Roads here also suck. I have a set of wheels in the garage shaped like eggs to prove it. Yet I still love having a car dropped like it is. Speed bumps aren't possible unless I go at an extreme angle or else the header scrapes and my skirts hit. You just have to learn how to drive a little different.

 

Trust me i kno what bad roads are, for the most part the bay area has good roads, but lately they have been redoing practically every single one lol, so there are some extremely uneven spots, but its wat you have to deal with when u have a lowered car.

my point being that everyone says their roads suck....see all three of u just complained about it.

 

Well everything on this thread I asked about were answered and I thank you guys for your input but now this thread is going nowhere... I'll consider everyones stuff but really this is pointless. And Reaper I do want a a low car but it isn't worth it to me as of right now. I'm not going to say I don't want a car that's dropped low because I'd be lying, but like I said to get them now would be stupid, I don't have money to just throw away, I have college coming up next year and I still want money to put forth my swap this summer. And the whole "don't blame it on the roads", obviously they play a role as do many reasons I am straying away from slamming my car, I don't want to put money to replacing my lip or header or struts or anything that I don't need to, maybe in a few years I'll do it but I want to lower my car in a cost effective way that looks good and doesn't break the bank. I'm leaning to just struts and springs now but thanks for the great input. BTW not a fan of those skirts at all.

 

Honestly, my best argument for coilovers is adjustability since you can raise it in the winter and lower it in the summer. That, and if you ever want to go lower and have springs, you have to buy new springs. With coilovers, you can simply spin the perches to get them a little lower, get an alignment, and you're done. (and yeah, I threw the skirts on the civic because I had them laying around and was hoping they would match the front/rear lips a little better. I kept them on all summer because getting a jack under the car was a complete PITA and I didn't hate them enough to want to try to get the car off the ground lol)

Cronin, I've personally driven in 12 states. I think I can safely make the judgement that western PA's roads do, in fact, suck *****. I'm not saying they're the worst in the country, but they're definitely not good either. Supersize would probably agree that the roads in PGH absolutely suck, and that's in an extremely populated area. I grew up in a town of 2400 people, so you can imagine how the roads were in my area. Also, you'll never hear me complain about roads in kentucky; I've seen enough roads that I consider the roads here as close to smooth as I'm probably going to get lol

 

look all im trying to say is everyone thinks their roads suck, including you. I'm not trying to be a douche but congrats on driving thru 12 states, doesnt prove anything. To the OP since you think your roads suck, thats why you should get coilovers because what happens when you lower your car with springs and you think its too low? Your screwed...Honestly just save up and get coilovers.

 

I'm not even going to bother finding a facepalm picture for this. Everyone, imagine your favorite facepalm pic and pretend I posted it.

I believe driving through one-quarter of the 48 contiguous states should give me a fairly accurate idea of what the roads are like on the east coast. Comparatively, PA's roads are not up to par with the other 11 states I've spent time in. Obviously, I can only make a judgment based on what I've seen, but I believe seeing the average road in 11 other states gives me a good idea of where PA stands. My entire point is I've seen what good roads look like. PA's roads are not good. So what's the opposite of good? Oh, yeah, bad.

Now, everyone thinks their roads suck? Really? I mean, really? I live in Lexington, meaning Kentucky's roads are now "my roads". So why did I say that you'll never see me calling Kentucky's roads bad after the roads I've driven on?

 

misread where you live....

look just cause you drive thru a state doesnt mean anything....Certain parts are going to be better than others, this goes for every state in the country. Thats like saying "i drove thru California and man that place was ghetto, full of crime and gangs." Congrats, you drove thru Oakland. Sorry but just bragging about how you have driving thru 12 states doesnt mean jack ****. Maybe if you said you have lived in 12 states, which god knows you havent, i could take that statement serious. And sorry maybe the statement "everyone" thinks their roads suck is a little too broad. People complain about how bad their roads are when they dont want to shell out the extra cash for a drop. I honestly dont care wat you have to say back to me because im not going to repsond but this thread is going no where......and should be brought back on topic.

Again OP, save up the extra cash and get coilovers. I think you will be much happier.