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JessicaS said:
Sorry if its confusing, but I'm not trolling or anything. To recap, I responded to an older comment I found in a google search, inquiring about installing 300 touring shocks on the Scat Pack in order to fix the harsh ride because as-is that was a deal breaker, and asked if anyone could confirm that did the trick. No one had experience to verify the easy fix, and with suggestions like investing in new wheels, skinny tires on a vehicle already massively overpowered for its stock 245mm rear tires IMO, and raising the ride height with R/T springs, for pretty obvious reasons those were less than ideal and increasingly expensive options that would likely result in a weird frankenstein's monster result.

As such, even though you lose money on trade-in, it makes more sense to just invest in a vehicle that isn't so extreme on the performance end of the spectrum for my purposes rather than overly re-engineer the Scat Pack. Since I'm practically being given the vehicle, I can just accept and then trade it in, as it looks like resale value on used cars is really high right now and I could get $30K+ easily for it, and a brand new GLI I can probably get for under $30K even after TTL. Thanks again.-----------------------------------------

Everything is a trade off. Everything is a compromise. First thing is to keep stock
rims and lower the car. Putting wide rims and fat tires instead, make some cars impossible to lower.....there's no clearance to steer it.

Hard springs make a car uncomfortable to drive and cause bouncing in turns on the street. Stock soft springs are designed to carry the weight of the car and unless you are getting airborne on a race course, a person doesn't need the harsh ride of hard springs.

Hard shocks however, slow down the harshness of driving the streets.

Best combo is soft springs and hard shocks to level out the harsh streets.

1.The biggest heartbreak is freshly bought wide wheels/tires too wide to lower a car
and then having to put in hard springs to keep the car up high enough to keep the tires from rubbing.

2. Putting hard springs under a car are a poor substitute for anti-sway bars
to keep the car from leaning in the turns.

3. Best combo is to lower the car first.......a lower center of gravity will do more
to make the car handle in the turns. 3a. Put on anti-sway bars front AND rear,
and the car will stop leaning in the turns.....even with high ground clearance.
A heavy bar on the rear will make the car "point" into the turns. Heavy shocks will soften the ride on a street-driven car.
Save the heavy springs for the race track.

If you think the car has too much power, learn to drive smoothly, ....or sell the car
and buy something you can control.