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Originally Posted by ghoonk
The shocks are fine, just that the roads here in Dubai can be quite bad in some places, and the randomly changing traffic routes and construction do come as a surprise sometimes.
Regarding point A, I was under the impression that corner balancing is only affected by ride height and not spring pre-load, and the latter affects handling in the same way that changing damping settings do. Hence the question of how it affects handling, i.e. less front end grip or more front end grip?
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It effects the balance depending on what degree it is done to, as height can also be affected by the adjustment, thus the statement is partially true. I'll use the Tein FLex in my example, as this is what I use and it gives me a frame of reference to describe from. It is a suspension with a fairly aggressive spring rate in stock form. If if were to adjust the spring load on it only, my vehicle heght would change dependant on how I adjusted it. The reason there is a seperate height adjustment is to allow you to compensate for this difference created. As well, the front and the rear coilovers are not the same heght and not the same springrate as each other, thus one is harder than the other and one naturally sits higher than the other. So, let's say you adjusted my preload by .5 inches in the front and .5 inches in the rear in the same direction, to say increase the preload (spring more tense). You'll notice the the vehicles height raised, but not evenly. Bottom line, you can't adjust the preload to get the effects you want and not change the height without effecting the balance.
To answer the other part of this question, it you were to soften the preload in the front and increase it in the rear, the front will grip more, and vice versa.
