10-09-2016, 11:02 AM | #1 |
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xDrive - spacers and/or lower springs?
Been reading on this and different forums about xdrive and lowering springs to "non-xdrive" height. Only one time came the suggestion to get spacers instead to kind of fill the gap by getting the wheels a little bit out.
I´m very happy with my M 351 19" and afraid of ruin anything by changing the ratio between sport/comfort. Anybody tried spacers and with what result? Anybody know of springs that will make it lower but minimal difference to original when it comes to sport/comfort? Thanks for any advice |
10-09-2016, 07:15 PM | #2 |
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Spacers are purely cosmetic. No performance or ride changes. If you want to go springs go AC Schnitzer. They aren't the lowest, but are widely reported to be the best riding springs. H&R are bouncy.
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Thank you!
For the spacers I´m looking just for the cosmetics, maybe I want to put the wheels a tiny bit out but we are talking about like 5mm or something... Heard good stuff about ACS, good that they are not the lowest - I just want non-xdrive height and minimal change in comfort.. |
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yes ACS doesnt make their own suspension parts. their shocks are always made by sachs too. the drop and spring rates might be to ACS' specs, but they're 100% made by eibach. i bought an ACS cup kit before for another BMW i had, and it says eibach and sachs on all the stuff along with the ACS logos and boxes. eibach also makes ACS sway bars too. no tuner makes their own parts, every brabus, techart, acs, etc stuff ive ever bought for my cars was always rebranded stuff. REMUS makes ACS and Brabus exhausts as well. all these things ive bought for various cars ive owned and its all made by this company or another always rebadged.
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look on their website and see if the part numbers are the same.
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my point is that they're eibach springs, the spring says something like ac schnitzer by eibach on them. they are rebranded eibachs, never said it was a rebranded prokit or sportline kit. whether they have different spring rates/drop than an eibach prokit or sportline kit is besides the point. they're both made by the same company, one spring kit cant be that much better or worse than the other in terms or quality or performance. and the ACS badged springs always retail for more than double the price. ive bought RUF coilovers for a 911 before, they were basically rebranded pss9's with a different color spring. driving wise, i couldnt really tell a difference to another car with regular pss9's.
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As with anything else, do what makes you happy.
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Almost ceratinly not. Or Eibach wouldnt be making ACS springs any more.
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they do say ACS on them
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