rfoo

Hi fellas,

Just got done installing my H&R sport spring and the car looks great. The drop exceeded from what I was anticipating. I took some pictures of my car.

I'll post more once I get a better shot.

rfoo

Sorry for the first pictures. That was taken after a heavry rain so the car looks dirty. I took some today after washing the car at Shell.

PhilfromPA

Looks good, what size pads are you on?

rfoo

Thanks.

I had the original left mounted together with the sport springs. If I'm not mistaken, the oem one is a dot 3. we might have a different measurement for the pad. I'm not sure if that makes sense to you.

I tried dot 1 but it was too low that just a little bump on the road my tires would rub to the fender.

hypetrain

Wow looks great now i gotta do this. How much did it cost getting the springs installed?

LawRens

That's a nice drop you got there. Now hit up the aggressive look with 5mm rear spacers! :P

rfoo

Thanks. I live off the U.S. and in my country labor is pretty cheap. Cost me just $30 for all the springs to be mounted. I had it done in a local shop nearby my place which specializes in MB.

Thanks. I would love to do the spacer as many of my friends recommend.. but there's a big problem. If I do the spacer, It will hit my rear fender if I hit a bump or any ramp that is. What can you recommend?

xvvvz

>>Cost me just $30 for all the springs to be mounted.<<

Wow. What a deal.

You lowered your car just in time for heavy rains to flood the streets of your country over the past few days, no? (From what I saw in the news.)

rfoo

Your right, it's rainy season here in my country and floods build up in some part of the country.

Luckily on where Im located, It doesn't really flood that much. Those places you see in the news are pretty far from where I live. I live in the capital but those places you see in the news aren't close to my city.

Usually city here that gets flooded pretty fast is the one near river banks. My city doesn't have any of those.

deloreandriven

That's a really nice drop you got there. i need to do mine really bad now.

LawRens

Fender roll, and pull if necessary. Take a dremel and just shave off a little bit of the inner fender in the back. The only flip side is that you have to cringe as you actually put the dremel onto the car

rfoo

Thanks. I really loved it Makes the car really look good and pretty much a head turner from where I'm from. Usually I see Honda's or any japanese car that has nice mods but just stares at the car. They all probably think how crazy I am to drop my car with our road conditions.

rfoo

I'm not really into fender roll.. My brother had it done on his SLK but didn't recommend on doing mine. I'll probably talk to some more people and local shops who specialzes in wheels to see what options I have.

Is it true that wheel spacers can loosen your bolts on tires after some time?

sensoryx

Thats very wierd, ppl have been given differeent drops with H&R, do you have more level pictures? So I can see the rear? Thanks

rfoo

Not a problem, I'll go take a photo for you and upload it here. It probably depends on the spring. As far as I know H&R has two types of spring, one is lowering and the other is sports.(correct me if I'm wrong)

I'm using the sport one so it's much lower than the standard lowering spring.

It was much lower when I used a dot 1 spring pad. I had a hard time driving it cause it hit the fender so much and ended up putting my OEM spring pad.

sensoryx

hmm I thought H&R only sold 1 type of spring for the w202?
So what spring pads are you running in front and back?

Looking fwd to th pics. Thanks!

rfoo

Here are the pics your asking. I tried to take the shot as levelled as I can.

5.0calypso93lx

So when you guys are referring to spring pads, what exactly are you referring to?

And are the springs cut at all? That car is slammed for a standard drop from those springs! I wouldn't think the sport series from H&R would bring the car that low.

LawRens

Spring pads are basically rubber fittings that sit on top of the spring. the pads range from #1 to #5, with 8mm starting at #1 and increments of 4mm each number above.

j280Sport

Hey rfoo

Any unusual tire wear problems .thinkin about lowering my 99 c280 sport but am concerned about excessive tire wear ????? anybody else can chime in on this as welll with their experiences with lowering

Thanx
jeff

rfoo

At the moment, I don't see anything unusual. I do keep my tire balance every 3 months and my wheel alignment every 4 months.