Lowering question...

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Originally Posted by celicatoe46m3

I really enjoy my new 4.6IS, but by no means I consider it a SUV. It's just a big car on big wheels. My personal intention was for driving the new baby around and keeping it as a beater and softening the current OEM setup.... and seem to have succeeded. If I wanted an SUV, I would have purchased a Range or Land Cruiser.

Whether you consider the X5 an SUV or not, it is what it is. Be it SUV or SAV, it's a matter of semantics. The X5 just emphasize on the Sporty nature of the SUV more than its Utility portion. But you have to call a pig, a pig (not that I'm saying the X5 is a pig).

I know that you love your 4.6is (I love mine as well...that's why we're here in this forum). So you should enjoy it for what it is. Why would you lower it and soften it's suspension to handicap it's agility? There are plenty of good baby haulers out there (with plenty more room) if the X5 ride is too stiff. You said that you purchased the X5 over the Range Rover or Land Cruiser because of it's sporty nature. But taking away some of it's agility (by softening up it's suspension) doesn't seem to agree with your initial purchase intention.

I know it may sound like I'm beating on you. I am NOT. Just trying to see the logic in the things people do. But then again, who said logic has to do with anything, right?

For those of the regulars here, am I starting to sound like "Blue"? Must be just getting old for questioning people's mods