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So I gather that when you say coilover you are wanting something adjustable because thats supposedly the good stuff right?

just get a decent shock and good spec springs and you have your coilover, if you dont have huge amounts to spend look for decent brands in good secondhand condition, but just keep in mind that just because a mate has 'awesome' adjustable coilovers that are all shiny doesnt mean he will have the right spring spec or have them on the right damper/height settings for the car... most times they dont...

adjustable doesnt always mean good... they may be great for track or racing, but for street with no DIY alignment system and no real suspension setup experience its just not practical... see what what the people in the motorsport section are running and why.

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my thoughts:

u dont even need 2 levels of adjustment when they are as shit as most cheap coilovers, there is usually maybe 1 or 2 adjustments with half decent curves, and u have to find them on a shock dyno. people think because they can "feel the difference" when changing the damper adjustments, that they are doing their job. straight up wrong, ur not tuning the performance, ur tuning the ride comfort in most cases.

waste of money, and less performance. thank god for dumb people, otherwise companies would actually have to put more thought into marketing than painting them some pretty colours and putting some knobs on them to play with to sell them.

a lot of damper adjustment is handy when the adjustment is good for teams who have the resources to test and tune properly, but even then it's only handy when the damper adjustment is actually good, basically until you get to around high end koni's level, the damper adjustment is just about useless, even to race engineers let a lone newbies.

it's pure marketing and wank factor.

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