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Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Do you hit potholes hard enough to bottom out? If so I'd say lowering by any means is not for you. If not then I wouldn't worry about it.

If the coils are close enough together, any kind of suspension bound might make contact w/ the clamps. I wouldn't worry too much about it, they'll just wear out over time.

What we need is for someone to explain WHY these would destroy a suspension.

Because when you use stock shocks with lowered springs, the shocks are constantly under pressure, and never reach their seat point. It blows the seals out of them. Also, compressing a spring increases it's spring rate. Heavier springs on stock shocks will also destroy the shocks, apparently. Not sure why, though.

Of course there can be effects from excess lowering no matter what method you choose.

Frinstance, really slamming it but not re-adjusting camber will cause at a minimum faster tire wear I'd think.

Actually, it's usually a toe mis-adjustment that stems from lowering that causes the faster wear, due to scrub angle on the tires. Camber won't cause faster wear, but it will cause uneven wear. If you're lowering, make damn sure you adjust your toe angle. Lowering also changes all three alignment specs, toe, caster, and camber. Caster changes the steering feel/angle if altered too much.

And slamming it and then slamming into potholes will of course jar everything.

Of course.

It is possible for one of those bolts to break I spose if they aren't good bolts.

It is possible for the clamp to cut into or nick the spring I suppose? Maybe? Maybe not? We don't want any substantial nicks on springs. I've seen some pansies go ape over nicked paint. Well the paint on all my vehicles springs is hanging there in shards due to being in the rust belt and maybe 50 years from now I'll notice a bad effect from it.

This is less than likely, since springs are cold steel, and treated. The clamps are probably just normal mild steel, unlikely they're even graded bolts.

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