lowering a merc 190 e

You can easily get hold of -60mm springs from places like ECP etc

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this makes no sence... your willing to buy springs then cut them? why not just cut the existing ones and save money. ? its going to achieve the same thing

Beats me why anybody would ever need to buy lowering springs for a 190E!!
Ive had 6 of 'em and you can do a serious slam-job by cutting a few coils off without any adverse effects or the risk of the springs dislocating on full droop - the standard springs are just so long!

Have you actually looked at the sporings on the 190?? If you had you would realise from the length of them that there is no way youd be rolling on 1 or 2 coils!! They are very, very long!!
You could lay it on its ass and still have a good half dozen coils left on the front. As I say, Ive owned 6 of these lowered (lots) by chopping standard springs and using No;1 spring pads and done another 30 or more at my old shop in Colchester without a single problem.
By all means go and spend a load of money on some kit - but in my opinion you will be wasting your money.
Just make sure your dampers are in good condition, if not replace them with good quality standard items and see what spring pads youre running, they will have 1 to 4 notches on them (1 being the lowest). Then cut the springs. I usually do 3 coils at the front and two at the rear and that gives a great drop with very slight rake and a lovely, slightly firmed up ride. There are other factors such as tyre size to consider when calculating the amount to chop too.
To give you a clue the car below ran 3 coils of front , 2 off rear, No:1 pads and had 205/40x17s all round. (I know the wheels are very dated but it was 12 years ago!)

tbh mate i havnt ive never really looked, not even seen the car yet until next week.
i will defanatly take your route then i didnt realise.
thanks you will have saved me quite a chunck of cash.
as soon as i get it( if i do) ill put some pic's up when ive slammed it hahah

thanks again

tosh