Good pic!Chris1981 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:32 pmWhen i went from OEM to B8's the ride firmed up significantly... although my OEMs were 90k miles old and completely shot!ionofchios wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:16 amI guess the more it damps, the more it stops the spring compressing as fast as it otherwise would, so it will be 'harder'.
I believe you've come to this conclusion yourself already but if you have M Sport you need the B8's, image below is front B6 and OEM M Sport, I made the mistake of ordering B6s as I read they are fine to replace M Sport and cheaper than the B8's while offering the same damping rate... but I didn't feel comfortable fitting something so different and the supplier was kind enough to do a straight swap to the B8s!
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Right, so now I am going to let you all know how dumb I really am

Until now, I had been imagining that all struts bodies - B4, B6, B8, OEM M Sport, OEM standard, whatever - were the same length, it is just that some are designed for the shorter piston travel of shorter springs and some not.