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Originally Posted by PMPB
That's a very well made point. These coilovers are made to be easily adjustable. If they were painted steel, the paint would bind up the spring seat, and crack+corrode and finally seize everything in place.
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Except that 99% of people who buy these coilovers actually just set 'em and forget 'em.
Cleaning up shock tube threads sufficiently to move spring perches isn't an issue if you do it often. If you don't do it often you don't need them to be clean.
Coilovers don't have painted threads. Zinc plating is enough. The piston rids are chrome plated steel, not stainless.
It should be remembered that stainless steel doesn't conduct heat very well and is not as strong as mild steel in some respects. Heat transfer rates are a very important feature of high performance dampers (well, any damper really).
Stainless steel is serious overkill for these components if corrosion is the concern.