For those who have gone with lowering links (I don't really care what brand) on a refreshed S, how has your ride quality been? How is it on rough roads in the default ride height?
I am considering going with them to reduce wear on the front half shafts. As an experiment today, I rode around with my default driving position as low. The roads here in Dallas where I was driving were beating the hell out of me and the car. I had numerous times where the car would bottom out. I tried playing with the suspension settings and if I stiffened it up, then it didn't bottom but wasn't very compliant over the bumps. Make it softer and it bottomed even easier. I couldn't seem to find anything that seemed to work well.
My assumption is that if I put the lowering links in, the default ride height will in effect be what my low currently is. The low height will be even lower. Not sure how safe that will be on the highways here. Don't really want the batteries to contact the ground and sometimes I feel the default low setting is already pushing it.
If that is an accurate assumption of how they will work, then the reduced wheel travel is going to result in unacceptable ride quality. It will just beat the heck out of the car. So not really sure if the benefits outweigh the risk and worse ride. In Florida, it likely wouldn't be an issue but here I was shocked how at how bad it was.
I am considering going with them to reduce wear on the front half shafts. As an experiment today, I rode around with my default driving position as low. The roads here in Dallas where I was driving were beating the hell out of me and the car. I had numerous times where the car would bottom out. I tried playing with the suspension settings and if I stiffened it up, then it didn't bottom but wasn't very compliant over the bumps. Make it softer and it bottomed even easier. I couldn't seem to find anything that seemed to work well.
My assumption is that if I put the lowering links in, the default ride height will in effect be what my low currently is. The low height will be even lower. Not sure how safe that will be on the highways here. Don't really want the batteries to contact the ground and sometimes I feel the default low setting is already pushing it.
If that is an accurate assumption of how they will work, then the reduced wheel travel is going to result in unacceptable ride quality. It will just beat the heck out of the car. So not really sure if the benefits outweigh the risk and worse ride. In Florida, it likely wouldn't be an issue but here I was shocked how at how bad it was.