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I got the same email. Unfortunately, I’ve got more time than money. 😏
On a different note, I did manage to get black straight rate springs ordered today. Never been a friend of progressive rate springs and since I’m wanting to get an inch or two lift from the shocks, I didn’t wanna be coil bound on the upper end of the spring in order to get there.
 
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More info on your springs, please. What you chose and why, cost / source. Thanks
QA1 springs from Summit @$54/spring. After a lot of research, I decided on 250# Front and 300# Rear. I would have liked to have a dual rate setup but I haven’t seen where anyone else has done it and didn’t want to be the guinea pig.
I chose black because I like my mods to be incognito. Not one for flash, I want it to work great without anyone knowing what’s been done.
 
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If I wanted to go to these springs on my QS3s, what length would I get - is there any range there (considering lift) or is there just one size that fits?
 
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You’ll want 14” springs with a 2.5” inside diameter for the front. There’s two options on the rears. If you want/need to keep the plastic rock guards then you’ll need a 3.0 id spring which is harder to find and normally cost twice as much. If you remove the guards then you can run 2.5 on all four.
 
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Ordered mine end of July, they said arrival was 8-10 ish then got an Email a couple weeks later said the rear shocks where on back order but they had the fronts. My choices were
1: wait and have entire order shipped when rears come in.
Or
2: Ship the fronts and when the rears come in ship them.
I chose 2 , last info I got was late September (maybe).
 
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You’ll want 14” springs with a 2.5” inside diameter for the front. There’s two options on the rears. If you want/need to keep the plastic rock guards then you’ll need a 3.0 id spring which is harder to find and normally cost twice as much. If you remove the guards then you can run 2.5 on all four.
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Screenshot from long ago. I bought the 300lb 14"L x 2.5"D for the rear and never put them on. They work like you said without the plastic piece. I ended up buying the 300lb 14" x 3" springs and and have been running them for about 4000 miles. And yes they are double the price. I ran the fox shocks the way they came for almost 5000 miles.
 
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Cool. Yeah, I'm gonna run the springs they came with for at least this season.

Quite an improvement with the spring swap, then?
 
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Cool. Yeah, I'm gonna run the springs they came with for at least this season.

Quite an improvement with the spring swap, then?
My shocks were low on nitrogen when I did the spring swap. I put on the Schrader valve caps and recharged the nitrogen on all four shocks at the same time I did the rear springs. It was a big difference but IDK how much of a difference it would make with new shocks. I'm still running the front springs and they probably have around 9000 miles on them now.. I would just run them as is until I felt like I had an issue.
 
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My shocks were low on nitrogen when I did the spring swap. I put on the Schrader valve caps and recharged the nitrogen on all four shocks at the same time I did the rear springs. It was a big difference but IDK how much of a difference it would make with new shocks. I'm still running the front springs and they probably have around 9000 miles on them now.. I would just run them as is until I felt like I had an issue.
I may try and use the 2.5" diameter springs that I originally bought for the rear, on the front shocks some day. I don't see why they wouldn't work.
 
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My shocks were low on nitrogen when I did the spring swap. I put on the Schrader valve caps and recharged the nitrogen on all four shocks at the same time I did the rear springs. It was a big difference but IDK how much of a difference it would make with new shocks. I'm still running the front springs and they probably have around 9000 miles on them now.. I would just run them as is until I felt like I had an issue.
Do you have part #s for that schrader valve ?
How often do you have to recharge them?
 
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Do you have part #s for that schrader valve ?
How often do you have to recharge them?
You can buy just the valves for 6 or 7 bucks each but you have to drill your existing caps. I added nitrogen a year ago when I switched the caps. I've not put a gauge on them or anything but the clicker still clicks from soft to medium, to hard. Unlike before when there was very little resistance between the clicks.
 
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I figured I would share since I've read where people are having to pay $1700-1800 a set now. This place is free shipping an no taxes if you live outside of North Carolina.
The link is showing considerably more than that. Is there a discount code or somethin?
 
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Anyone who got the back order email notice get any updates yet?


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