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Stl-986 · 07-26-2022, 09:07 AM

Koni Red can NOT be adjusted.

Koni Sport (yellow) can be adjusted, but you wont be able to get to the top of them on the rear's to actually adjust them. They would have to make the adjuster external & at the bottom for the rears....but that wont ever happen since that would be a completely new design for Koni as a whole.

You really wont get anything "less firm" when you have a much smaller sidewall tire. Your current shocks could very well be bad and need to be replaced anyway, but I wouldn't expect in your mind that anything is going to make the ride better when you make changes with tires & wheel size

You can't expect a car to handle the same when you make the kind of changes you have made. So you have to decide....want looks or want ride quality. You wont get both.

07-26-2022, 09:07 AM	#12
Stl-986 Registered User Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 1,182	Koni Red can NOT be adjusted. Koni Sport (yellow) can be adjusted, but you wont be able to get to the top of them on the rear's to actually adjust them. They would have to make the adjuster external & at the bottom for the rears....but that wont ever happen since that would be a completely new design for Koni as a whole. You really wont get anything "less firm" when you have a much smaller sidewall tire. Your current shocks could very well be bad and need to be replaced anyway, but I wouldn't expect in your mind that anything is going to make the ride better when you make changes with tires & wheel size You can't expect a car to handle the same when you make the kind of changes you have made. So you have to decide....want looks or want ride quality. You wont get both. __________________ 2000 Boxster Tiptronic 2003 Boxster 2003 996 C2 Cab 2002 996 (SOLD) 1986 944 (gone but missed)