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Old 03-30-2020, 08:35 PM   #8
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I'm also leaning a bit that independent height adjustment is more of cover-up, then "feature". As to me that looks more as if for such coilovers there is initially reduced travel for sake of lowering, that stays same during ride height adjustment to simplify valving, instead of properly increasing travel in design due this "feature". If anything, i'd rather look positively to extra gained full travel/more compliance/less preloaded springs if i'm not doing stupid lowering, then travel staying same reduced even for non slammed car.
You're giving the manufacturers far too much credit.

Every different damper body length costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop and manufacture. The fewer damper lengths they maintain the more money they make.
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