# Help me decide: Springs vs Coilovers

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [April 23, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-me-decide-springs-vs-coilovers/263495 "2012-04-23T12:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wayne64SS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wayne64ss/32/6365_2.png) [@Wayne64SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wayne64SS)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-me-decide-springs-vs-coilovers/263495/6 "2012-04-23T12:38:14Z")

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> [@NYSpeed Watkins Glen (IRL) Showcase - July 4th, 5th & 6th 2008! \*Now With TRACK TIME!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-watkins-glen-irl-showcase-july-4th-5th-6th-2008-now-with-track-time/45532/78):
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> Okay…so…someone on the other forum I’m on just posted the Espelir springs for sale for $250 less than they are new ($300 shipped - although, the site is now listing them at $389 new as opposed to the $500+ they were before)). These are the only springs made specifically for the AWD version of the car. It’s hard to find them used, which is why I’m posting this as I’m ready to pick them up.
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> They were initially my only plan for lowering the car…but lately I have been going back and forth between getting springs or saving for coilovers.
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> Coilovers for this car (the ones I plan to get anyway) would be about $1300-1400 installed. I can buy these springs for $300 and pay Wayne another couple of hundred or so (have discussed this with him in the past) and get them installed for under $600.
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> What is the pro’s/con’s of coilovers vs springs. I’m asking you guys instead of googling (although I have done this preliminarily) because we all live in the same geographic area. Do NY winters wreck havoc on coilovers?
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> Let me know your opinions. These are considered ‘high-end’ springs. Expensive as they get.
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> Here is how they look compared to my sig pic:

I put coil overs on VOT VOTs tdi and he had me smear them with boat grease all over the place as well as velco covers. You should ask him how it actually held up.

Are you going to actually adjust the height of the car ever? The coil overs will pay for themselves the first time you have to have the stock springs reinstalled for winter use… initial install’s the same price either way.

Really depends on your needs / wants for the car. Do the coil overs allow adjustment back to stock height? I know most stuff people bring me are like 1-2 inch drop at max height. Fucking stancefag garbage. :rofl :rofl

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