Winter driving + lowered car = help?

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Sup all //

So as I patiently wait for my H&R springs, one question is still burning in my mind. How's the winter driving? I know a few of you are from the northern regions and have coil-overs. Thus, you guys can put the car back to stock height.

Seeing as I'm not ready to invest in coilovers yet, I'm just wondering how's the winter driving with a lowered car? Mind you I'm only lowering my car 1-1.4", which isn't huge, but it's still a factor come mid-january and there's plenty of snow buggers on the roads ready to clip my car. (you should try to evade these anyway)

I know I should watch out for the usual suspects like any winter driving with or w/o a lowered car:

roots, tire track valleys, clumps of snow, etc ... (yellow snow) lol

I'm not worried about getting stuck because like I mentioned earlier, I'm not killing a huge amount of clearance, only an inch or so. So maybe I don't have to be such a nancy about lowering my car and the winter, but I just wanted to get some input from northern drivers.

Thanks!

M

[MJZ]

No issues on TRD Springs.

This winter, I probably won't be able to plow through snow like I did with TRDs.

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Originally Posted by MJZ

No issues on TRD Springs.

Awesome! Good to know.

[Pawel062]

actually coils at full height afaik wont go to stock height. still will be a bit lower. my friend drove about ur height during winter on oem 17s no problem. just plows some extra snow lol.

[CTMike]

I have H&R's and my winter driving was fine really... I mean i was a bit of a snow plow when we got like 2 feet of snow in one storm but other than that really not bad at all...

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Originally Posted by CTMike

I have H&R's and my winter driving was fine really... I mean i was a bit of a snow plow when we got like 2 feet of snow in one storm but other than that really not bad at all...

Hey CT,

Do you have an i4 or v6? Did you go with the H&R OE Springs or H&R Sport Springs? How was the drop? Do you like watching movies in the dark? LOL jk.

Thanks!

M

[CTMike]

I have an I4 and have the H&R sport springs... ride is good and with the right wheel set up or even on the stock rims the drop is good... I am now just in the mood to really slam it so I am movng to coils soon. I don't understand the comment on movies in the dark lol but if your refering to my dvd player I have installed I watch movies where ever I drive lol day or night.

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Originally Posted by CTMike

I have an I4 and have the H&R sport springs... ride is good and with the right wheel set up or even on the stock rims the drop is good... I am now just in the mood to really slam it so I am movng to coils soon. I don't understand the comment on movies in the dark lol but if your refering to my dvd player I have installed I watch movies where ever I drive lol day or night.

Awesome good deal. How much drop did you get? H&R says 1.3-1.4 inches but other's are saying 1.5-2.0 inches.

[CTMike]

I would have to say about 1.5 inches all around really... its good I will post some pics when I get home if you want... can't from my phone

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Awesome, I'd love to see them. Glad to hear it's consistent all around, that's why I went with H&R. Due to the i4 other springs tended to make the rear sag. Or so I've been told.

Thanks again!

M

[ItsMeJon]

Just do it rally style and tape your bumpers and side skirts so you don't scrape up your paint and if the snow is that bad you really shouldn't be driving. Dam so many people getting rims and dropping their car blah .

[Pawel062]

masking tape ftw!