Lowering Springs or Wheel Spacers?

Updated: 09 Dec 2024

As a student, I don’t have the most money to drop on something like coilovers (though they’re probably my best option all in). I’m getting a bit of mod fever to change the looks of my car and I’m torn between lowering it, or keeping the stock ride height and spacing the wheels. I’m either going to get some lowering springs on the stock shocks until they go and replace them too, or get spacers with stock suspension until I need to replace the shocks with upgraded ones. Either way, the cost is very similar. The only thing I’m worried about with dropping the car is scraping on bumps and potholes thus handicapping the car as my daily driver. What do you guys think: springs or spacers? (The attached picture is exactly what my car would look like with lowering springs.)

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This is roughly what it would look like with spacers albeit a little higher ride height because of it being an xi.

I don’t think it needs lowering so I’d go with spacers and then maybe some bigger tires

Mine does sit a little higher than that, but not by much. I’m hoping the wheel spacers close up some of that gap though. Thank you for the input!

I got a picture of my actual wheel gap for better reference. It’s not terrible, but there is a little bit of that “4x4 look” that xi guys complain about.