I was thinking about KWs, I am parting out my G35 so I have some disposable cash but it seems my rears are as much the issue. If they are too low in the back it rides like a Ford F-350. However I did drive it today and it is much better, I need to measure things to see if I am at stock height in the rear now. I also wonder if 1/2 my issues is simply our roads are garbage lots of car guys are talking about rim damage lately with all of the pot holes we get in the spring :(

The closest major city to me (Edmonton population 817,000)had almost 800 pot hole damage claims in 2011 and they only paid out 26% of the claims and that cost them $110,000. Where I live it's worse because we don't have actual pot hole crews in my town of 12,000 people.

Ok...without reading through all 16 pages, will a drop kit from Eibach work with self-leveling or affect any other components like EDC?

EDC? X5's don't have EDC

Mine does :D

After a bit more research, it appears that H&R Springs have a kit that's made for self leveling rears. It just comes with 2 front springs and 2 lowering links to change the rear self leveling sensors.

I also got mixed results from other forums regarding lowering springs and EDC. Some say it will wear out your OEM shocks faster, some say it won't. I guess ill find out....as soon as I can find a shop that won't charge me a grand to install it.

For those without adaptive drive who have done this-- any comments on handling? Looks like most have you done this just for looks. I'm interested in doing this because I'm sick of the body roll...

This helped a lot with body roll even in comfort standard setting. In sport mode it's like riding on rails through turns but to be honest I don't use sport mode much because the standard setting works well with the lowering.

They must be smoking crack to charge you $1000 for install. Take it to your local body shop that you trust they can probably for less than $150. Remember it's only two front springs and lowering links which takes only perhaps 15-20 minutes. Two front spring should only be about 2 hours worth of install time. My shop charge me less than $100 to install . I just watched the process . Even if you don't use the body shop 2 hours should be the max you should pay to have that installed . EDC should not be affected with Springs only and lowering links. Then a car alignment should only run you about $100.


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I installed everything by myself. In 3 hours in my driveway. There is no way in hell I'd pay over 250 for this install anywhere...

Yeah, okay buddy.

How hard was the install? Do you need a 2 post lift and some kind of special spring compression tool?