Lowered in winter?
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Lowered in winter?
Hi all, so I've been deciding to lower my car or not for the past... year. Ya I've asked around and did research but didn't really find much. So I hope you folks here on CL can help me out with my decision. I drive a 07 IS250 RWD and deciding whether to get the H&R (lower front 1.4" rear 1.3") or the Eibach (front 1.4" rear 1.0"). I don't know if I'll be able to make it through Canadian winters (I'm from Calgary btw). I'm riding on the factory 16" during winter so that makes it sits lower than the 17 and 18". Have any of you guys driven a lowered car on the snow before? Do you think I'll have any problem driving in Calgary during winter lowered on those springs? I know another option is to get coilovers, but it cost more and I don't track my car so if the spring is fine for the snow here in Calgary, I would much rather just go with springs. Hope any of you guys can help me out.
I had Tanabe NF210, which is a similar drop, for 2 winters on my 16" steelies, and its totally fine. Car still carves thru the snow, but thats because mine is AWD, and the stock height was higher than a RWD. But it should be fine given u have good snow tires too.
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I've ran 215/45/17s snow in my GS400, at the time, lowered with HKS RS coils at -36mm front and -33mm rear from stock, crossed rockies, snow stormed in vancouver, random blizzards and white outs, ran fine other than scraping snow during the snow storm, but nothing big unless you got hung up on snow....
I go with slightly taller and skinnier snows for the winter.
Raises the car about 1/4 to 1/2 inch and gives a comfier ride. The skinny snow tires also dig into snow better than fat low profile.
Raises the car about 1/4 to 1/2 inch and gives a comfier ride. The skinny snow tires also dig into snow better than fat low profile.
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hhhmmm... depends..... raising a car with coilovers that are not body height adjusting but rather spring height adjusting, which changes the pre load aswell, should give you a harder ride. You'll feel softer would most likely be due to soft and taller sidewall... But yeah, skinner snows are better to plow through, I've got 225 and worked out great so far.
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