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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 05:18 PM
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New Springs!???

Hi,

I'm looking for new springs for droping my car, but I don't want to drop too much, just to give a better look.
I was watching the eibach springs and all lower the cars 1,5"!!! For what I want its to much!

I previously had a bimmer and Audi that were dropped, but now I like so much the confort of my car that I don't want to drop 1,5" (+-3cm) and don't want to scratch my beautifull AMG bumper.
I'm thinking changing springs because in a near future I will need new shocks.

So, any one knows How really the eibach springs drop or any other springs that only lower a bit more than stock? in the Tuv aproval for eibach they mention 2,5cm...

I was looking for 1-2cm max, and even the coil-overs only start at 2-3cm but they are too expensive for me now, since I'm thinking to trade my car in 2 years...

Shocks I will go for Bilstein or Koni, didn't decided yet.

Thanks for any help
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 05:24 PM
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The eibach springs will drop that much on the luxury 240/320. That is what those #'s were based on.

That being said, I'm not sure how it would be with your 220CDI. I don't know what the weight difference is between that and all the other w203 models.

If the CDI came with a sport suspension already, I'd go with springs that were based off the 230 sport spring setup (i.e. TEIN S-tech, H&R and/or Vogtland).
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by drexappeal
The eibach springs will drop that much on the luxury 240/320. That is what those #'s were based on.

That being said, I'm not sure how it would be with your 220CDI. I don't know what the weight difference is between that and all the other w203 models.

If the CDI came with a sport suspension already, I'd go with springs that were based off the 230 sport spring setup (i.e. TEIN S-tech, H&R and/or Vogtland).
My suspension is the same as 230 sport, but with diferent sways and shocks/springs set ups, like talked many times in the forum members replacing original sways for the AMG ones, in Europe with evolution pack (C7 in US) cars have it, and a friend of mine changed for the AMG suspension and the ride high is the same as the evolution...

H&R springs are the ones that lower the most...
TEIN I don't have a dealer in Portugal, but I will take a look
Vogtland I will see also.

But in general I think the sport springs of any brand lower the car +- 3cm, the ideal thing was a sctok replacing spring, not sport models, but that could lower 1-2cm!

Lowering:
TEIN S-TECH: 1,9cm
Eibach: 25-30cm
H&R: 3,5cm front 3,3cm rear

I allready sent email to eibach...
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 08:03 PM
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how much of a drop do you want? you could try OEM 2005 sport springs.
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by rlee02135
how much of a drop do you want? you could try OEM 2005 sport springs.
How much it drop?

I think all that is OEM MB sport for W203 doesn't drop more than what I have, I think... Do you know how much the 2005 sport drops compared with the 2004?
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 09:08 PM
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2005 springs are 1/2~1" lower in front. for the rear, you can play around with different spring pads.
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