i have tein basics and they are awesome but my freeways and streets are crap.
i don't usually scrape or bottom out but it's not a very comfortable ride because the surface are unusually paved. I'm not complainging about ride quality, but I am concern withthe life of these coilovers if they can take the abuse. Abuse could stem from a small bump in the road or bumpy freeway surface that i can't slow down on, usually when paved sections of the freeway meet unpaved sections where often one is higher than the other. When I had springs and stock shocks I would bottom out all the time since the stock shocks were blown fairly quickly and I don't want the same thing to happen to my coilovers...
So are they more durable than i think?

 

How low are you?

 

1 tight finger in the front and sort of tucking in the rear
here are pics for reference
thanks

 

good question. anybody?

 

They last until you hit one to many potholes and then they go "fart" lol No but it really varies. There are many different reasons why people's coilovers last until they do. The brand, the spring rate, the driving style, the roads in the area, the ride height, etc. This is really a vague question...

 

Sorry to say, but most likely you'll damage the races in your wheel bearings before the Teins take a ****.

I would adjust your rake and raise the rear 1inch or more to compensate for your roads, this will completely change the suspension geometry and give you the positive leverage in the RLCA's you require to have a properly functioning rear end suspension.

You want the RLCA's to atleast be flush with the rear sub-frame

I had my rear wheel bearings shatter on my Del Sol with the Tein Flexes at close to full stiffness. Now I have memorized where all the potholes in the city are and avoid them religiously; even when it looks like I'm veering off the road in some cases.

expletive Tucsons roads, I had to raise up my car that was fully tucking

 

Depends on how you drive, it can last as long as oem, which also depends on how you drive.... It all depends... Don't expect to be driving on teh same suspension 10 years from now if you drive like a stunna

 

I have no real answer to your question, but the more stiffly you have the dampers set the more internal stress they'll experience, and the more likely they are to fail earlier.

This is why you see a lot of off-road racers fitted with multiple dampers at each corner, i.e. each damper will be set fairly soft for longevity (cumulatively providing a fairly stiff rate), rather than a single damper set up stiff, which will fail a lot more easily given the abuse recieved on very rough roads taken at speed.

 

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