Civic Blown Stock Struts With Coilover Sleeves

This is a video showing why you should upgrade your struts when you decide to lower your car especially on sleeve type coilovers.

The car bounced all over the place and was very hard to drive and rode on bump stops so often that I'm lucky to not have damanged anything else on the suspension or chasis.

I am now riding on 98 Acura Integra GS-R struts with my stock civic springs. So if you want to see the drop I had with the old set-up watch my other short clip it shows how the car sat.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Civic
• Honda
• Acura
• Blown
• Shocks
• struts
• coilovers
• coilover
• sleeve
• sleeves
• lowered
• lowering
• bouncing
• suspension

[bmxn4l1f3]

so when you first installed them how low were they set? i heard tha if you stay above 2 inches ebay sleeves on stock struts are just fine.

[95r81cx]

@bmxn4l1f3 I believe I began at 1.8" of drop and over a course of 6 months ended up being around 2.5" of drop which was too much for the struts to handle. It's up to your discretion regarding using oem struts and sleeves. I actually feel that since the price of coilovers has dropped and there are so many different available options which keep the spring preload it is the best way to go.

[95r81cx]

As of suggestion most full bodied coilovers with an adjustable lower perch such as PIC, Buddy club, Ksports ect are infact better than a sleeve set up as it maintains shock travel allowing for a reduction in ride height without increasing the strain so much on the shock for a longer life.

[kompressor124]

Heh typical Civic owner. Never bothering to do any research and wondering why his car sucks so bad.

[95r81cx]

@kompressor124 Never did I wonder why my original shocks seals crapped out. Reduction in suspension travel, under dampened, and old. Shocks failed and it can occur on any vehicle with the combination of the aforementioned possibilities. This is more of a simple educational video for people who do not know how to visually diagnose a 100% blown shock and the potential issues that come with it.

[RainingSushi]

I got a question. This won't happen in a warm area right? I live in Florida, where its hot almost year round and winters are perfect.

[95r81cx]

@RainingSushi It'll happen anywhere if your shocks aren't able to operate effectively.

[ITRLOVER]

koni yellow shock is the best lifttime warranty

[shaunaye]

nice wheels thinking of white for my black saxo vtr :)

[502M3JOHN]

FULL ADJUSTABLE COIL OVERS. Nuff said

[nbrugato]

its a good thing you live in canada. that way you have have youre car rust out and have youre struts blow up. i suggest getting a truck

[lileazyell]

Run a 15 with a lol thicker side wall and you be fine. The 17s would kill stock struts lol

[dudesome6969]

Not only are the roads shit in Canada. At least Ontario, but there's fucking retarded steep-angled curbs everywhere.

[xstr33tr4cerx]

that's why you buy full body coils man megan racing is cheap and some of the parts are shit but it's better than the whole koni and ground control systems people recommend because you are either compressing the spring or the shock which is bad and im not sure about winter driving man not something i would do in my car im buying a second car to keep my soon to be autocross miata out of rain and snow

[SURCNCMOTORSPORTS]

kw v3 coilovers man

[NeufNeufUn]

on my acura CL i just craigslist searched 'acura springs' found some integra springs (most honda/integra's springs are universal, but i'm sure you know that from your integra struts lol) from megan racing for 50 dollars. then went and bought 4 KYB AGX struts from rockauto.com for 40 bucks a piece. went to autozone to buy the top mounts since i totally forgot about them when ordering the rest.

[kermit1someone]

dangg.. should have got a fender roller, i noticed your back fender's paint is really chipped