Originally Posted by byerly0137
yea that is what i told him, but he said by the time i invest my money to have them align and put them on, im looking at 350, just for installation!! And i have to get a camber kit which is another 30 right there. So after all said and done i would of put 650 into springs on my car. But if i get coilovers, i can probably install them myself(i dunno) and get it aligned for around 1000 dollars (tein coilovers for 900 shipped on ebaymotors.com). But i dont intend to autox or any of that, just daily driven car.
That makes absolutely no sense. If you buy springs you'll shell out $350 for an install but if you buy coilovers you'll do them yourself? Eh?
A spring install is just as simple as a fullbody coilover install, you've only got an added step of compressing/uncompressing the spring. If you can do one, you can do the other.
As far as what the tech said, bullshit. Sounds like either a miscommunication or a tech that's an idiot. There isn't
a single spring for your ride, there are
multiple offerings. To say that a spring swap will ride worse than a coilover is asinine because there are a lot of variables relating to each (ie: spring rates, linear or progressive, length of spring, etc).
Going with a coilover option is only going to benefit you if your are looking to corner weight your car, if you want to select a specific set of spring rates, or/and if you want to dial-in your ride height. From the sound of it though, you don't really care about any of these things so a simple spring swap would be your best bet. As for the Tien's you bought, they're not horrible but better offerings are out there. It all depends on your tastes.