I've been looking at lowering the Octy for a while now, but am wanting to stay away from coilovers in all honesty. Found some H&R Sport Springs on on Awesome GTi for £170 , has anyone used these or know whether they are any good? They'll only drop the car by 20mm which is fine by me, just wondering if anyone had any experience with them for comfort etc? 

 

Thanks

 

Daryl

H&R springs tend to be a little firmer then most but the quality of them is top notch.

Damian @ DPM Performance

I've been looking at lowering the Octy for a while now, but am wanting to stay away from coilovers in all honesty. Found some H&R Sport Springs on on Awesome GTi for £170 , has anyone used these or know whether they are any good? They'll only drop the car by 20mm which is fine by me, just wondering if anyone had any experience with them for comfort etc?

Thanks

Daryl

The problem you'll have here is with your standard shocks. They are fine on standard springs but lowering springs will be a lot stronger and they cant handle the rebound so you will basically be driving a pogo stick! I lowered mine using brand new standard shocks and they couldnt dampen the rebound so partly worn ones will have no chance. Your best bet imho is either coilies or springs + uprated shocks.

Just to add to the above, H&R springs are highly rated on here so they will be the best option for you. A lot of lowering springs for these cars lower the back of the car way more than the front for some reason. The H&R's are fine though.

I would also get some better shocks as the originals with lowered springs probably wont go too well.

Got H&R springs highly recommended, not the biggest of drops but at least i don't have to worry about speed humps, using with FSD shocks not firm enough for my liking, fund raising in progress to get some Bilstein B8's

H&R and Bilstein here. Would have gone with Koni FSD but they werent available at the time. Bit too firm for my liking for a daily driving, at winter when it's -25 celsius it feels like someone has changed my bilsteins to bits of railway tracks  

I have a eibach pro kit on mine which is 20mm all round from memory.

I put these on with oem new shocks. This is fine for me the eibach springs have virtually the same spring rate as stock so no risk of shortening the life of the shocks.

I did this 18 months ago and I have forgotten there on most of the time.