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These seem to be standard practice with all lowered springs these days. Personally, I've never liked or bought into the whole concept behind them.

 

So I managed to get hold of some conventional wound springs (slightly lowered and uprated) and tried them on my VR.

Result is the car doesn't feel at all "jiggly" and I've even softened the Koni's by 1/4 a turn front and back.

It feels planted, comfortable and handles bumpy road surfaces much, much better.

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Your car looked quite low a week ago?

 

With the new springs the front is about the same as when you saw it, but the rear is about 10mm higher now.

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I'd always take a regular spring of the correct length over a shorter progressive wound spring any day of the week. Having said that, there are progressive springs and there are progressive springs. Cheaper ones tend to be too soft initially and then suddenly hit a rock. Decent progressives should be seamless to the driver.

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I guess the progressive part is a softer rating than the main part which is where the 'jiggly' ride comes in

 

What make did you get?

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