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Old Nov 7, 2021 | 05:18 PM
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suspension/strut life with lowering springs.

I know there will be reduced life with lowering springs and there is no definitive answer as everyone's driving habits and road conditions are different so I am curious as to roughly how long before one would need to replace them if they had lowering springs installed.
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I know there will be reduced life with lowering springs and there is no definitive answer as everyone's driving habits and road conditions are different so I am curious as to roughly how long before one would need to replace them if they had lowering springs installed.
My personal experience is based on changing springs on M3's. Four of them. The springs on those cars were linear and the shocks designed for them were specifically for linear springs. Most lowering springs are progressive. Due to the increase in spring frequency in progressives compared to linear springs, the stuts and shocks wear out very quickly. For me, I felt it in a few months time. I would up going with various 'designed' coilover kits and got around all that.

Since I have the air suspension, I am not concerned with this issue and actually don't know what type of springs are in the spring/strut Macans. What did a search tell you?
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm looking to buy a suv so was searching through another forum and came across a thread talking about lowering springs. One guy said he has used eibach pro springs on various cars over 20 years and said his struts were usually gone after around 4 years.
Having eibachs on my 63 and always getting coilovers and never just lowering springs in my cars before my 63 so seeing him say 4 years with lowering springs was quite alarming.
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