Nowadays, to improve driving experience, more and more car owners are keen to modify their cars. The shock absorber is a way to make it come true. So how should you choose a shock absorber, let’s take a look at it.

First of all, we have to clarify our ideas to find out what our needs are. On the one hand, modification of the shock absorber is to improve the handling performance. On the other hand, it is an improvement in appearance. Each type of suspension modification has its own advantages and disadvantages, we must also consider it before modification as well.

•  If the vehicle chassis needs to be lowered just to improve the appearance of the vehicle, car owners can directly choose short springs. With the original shock absorber, it can easily achieve the effect we needed before. However, although the modified short spring is low cost and has an immediate effect, the disadvantage of this modification is also obvious. In order to pursue comfort, the original shock absorbers tend to have greater resilience and a deeper compression process. After the owner replaces the short spring, every compression of the shock absorber cylinder cannot be effectively protected by the spring, and even when the shock absorber cylinder is compressed to the limit, the spring has not yet been compressed. In this way, after a period of use, our original shock absorbers will be destroyed, which often directly causes the shock absorber to leak oil and become unusable. Therefore, we choose short springs only as a short-term transition, and the driving should not be too intense, besides, we must prepare a set of original shock absorbers as a backup.
• For car owners who pursue balance, sports suits are a good choice. There are often many sports suits to choose from for the same model, mainly differ in shock absorber spring, shock absorber cylinder thickness and other aspects, which leads to the need to adjust and replace the spring to control the height of the vehicle body and the suspension supportability after the sports suit is modified. The price for modification of the shock absorber kit is actually similar to that for the following height adjustable damper modification, but mainly because some car owners still want to improve the handling and appearance under the premise of taking into account daily driving and home use.
• For sports activists, height adjustable damper are your best choice. This kind of products from racing sports modification has many advantages. It is absolutely indispensable for improving the handling, enhancing the intense driving and the extreme performance of the vehicle, and the height of the vehicle can be changed by adjusting the height, but this adjustment needs to be completed by a professional technician with the help of professional tools. There are a lot of special attentions in the maintenance parameter settings (all springs, suspension height, damping adjustment, and tilt adjustment) you have to pay. After the modification, the sports performance is significantly improved, but there is a reduction in comfort.

Air suspension is mainly a favorite choice for some style modification enthusiasts. The height can be adjusted anytime and anywhere, and it can also reach a height that many other shock absorbers can’t reach. However, for most car owners who pursue sports, air suspension is not a very ideal choice, and the suspension system cannot provide strong support to the owner. Due to the complex structure, the pneumatic shock absorber is also difficult to meet the “intensive driving” needs of many modified car enthusiasts.

Refitting a car is not an independent action, and it is not something that can be accomplished by refitting the wheels alone or refitting the shock absorbers. It is like the overall improvement of vehicle handling. It is impossible to modify the shock absorber system alone to meet this demand. Therefore, it’s better for you to consult professionals during specific operations and do not pursue the extreme too much.