Discovered my BP wagon has King springs in the rear

[jbrizz]

Somehow my car has King springs in the rear, I just discovered it today while flushing the brake fluid. Are King springs even sold in Japan? It\'s not factory is it?

I\'m the first owner from Japan, but the rear shocks were replaced under warranty shortly after I bought it (they told me they were leaking), but they were replaced with the correct be5-b832 Bilstein, so there should be no reason to change the springs.

I\'m trying to work out how my car ended up with these springs in it, and if it might be worth going back to the factory ones, or even if these may well be the factory ones.

[loner]

if the ride height is ok, dont worry about it.

[jbrizz]

It\'s actually not the most even. It\'s not bad, but ever so slightly lower in the rear, makes it look like it\'s done 155,000km not 55,000km. It also came back from getting the shocks replaced feeling quite firm in the rear, not to say that\'s necessarily when the springs got changed, but I think the spring rate is probably firmer than it should be given it now has working shocks.

Are the Spec B springs the same as regular BP wagon springs?

[Joker]

are they coilovers style? they probably just chucked in a complete set and not reused your oem springs, less work

[jbrizz]

Nah, brand new Bilsteins were fitted, the springs are not new. The part number on the sticker indicates the shock is the correct model for my car. If the mechanics changed my springs without telling me I will be pretty pissed, but I just don\'t see any reason why they would. I\'ll ring them Monday, but they\'re not going to admit to anything if they did or likely even remember.

[boon]

I would hazard a guess that the car came into the country with adjusties and these were removed by the importer for compliance purposes.

They would have just picked up a set of struts from a wrecker, which probably came with those springs on them.

[jbrizz]

I think you might be right. I just dug through the stuff I got from the car yard and it looks a bit lower than stock. That\'ll also explain why the rear shocks were leaking because the car only had 41km on it. They\'d done god knows how many kms.

Mystery solved I think.

The springs are probably fine to leave in there, they are about stock height (tiny bit saggy) but just 20-30% stiffer.