Daniel60

So I have been told that lowering the car improves the handling however I also been told it's hard on the struts. Since I have a 05 that was made in 2004 what do you recommend me to do? Should I get new suspension or try to half *** it and get springs?

Tylus

at least replace the struts up front. you will have to disassemble it all anyways, why not?

it's a PITA to do struts/springs, so I vote you do it once and enjoy a better ride

peetiewonder

yeah do front struts and springs. you can change the rears later because they are two bolts on either side.

Norm Peterson

Especially on a car that has a few thousand (or a few tens of thousand) miles on everything, once you do the springs, you might as well do it all up at once. Springs, struts, and shocks.

Do the front springs and struts at the same time. Lots of reasons (working with the same one-time use fasteners, align once, keep damping appropriate to spring rate).

You could do the rear springs and shocks at separate times, but . . . I'm guessing that you don't want to run with just the front lowered any longer than you have to, and you probably end up unbolting one end of each shock to do the rear springs anyway. Might as well just finish the job at that point.

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't care for the ride you'd get from having new stiffer rear springs working with the old shocks, and it'd be pretty obvious what you'd need to do. Not that the ride would be too harsh or anything like that. Just that normal suspension motions would be controlled much better up front, and the rear would be a bit "bouncy" by comparison. The car would always feel like it was pivoting up/down about the front axle instead of just moving straight up and down. Certain road contours taken at certain speeds would give you a mild/moderate case of front to back head toss that can get kind of old after a while.


Norm

Boozshey

I did just springs on my 05 built in 08/04 when it had 30k miles on it. I still haven't changed the struts at 60k and still notice nothing different than the first time I installed them.