mihai wrote:I think I am the person that Jim is talking about with the H&R's. I had them fitted and didn't seen any noticeable drop in height. Don't know the exact reason, but after I got my springs installed, I phoned up one of the H&R suppliers and found out that the springs I bought off a guy on eBay (who bought them from Tuspeed) were the springs for the USDM Legacy. Not the AUDM Liberty.
The part number for my springs is 54425.
The correct part number for the AUDM Liberty is either 29165-1 or 29167-1.
Can't speak about Tuspeed directly, but I think they may be getting the wrong springs for the Liberty, when I called them up, the quoted me the USDM part number.
Sorry to bring a post back from the dead but I actually had someone link me to this thread regarding H&R springs and I felt it important to post a reply.
I'm not sure who you bought your springs from but we at Tuspeed have never sold or imported USDM market H&R springs, and in fact we've only ever sold a handful to suit the Liberties. All the Euro spec springs for Subaru's start with a 29*** part number and that is all we have ever sold here. I'm not sure who you talked to Mihai but nobody here would have quoted you a 544** part number - this is totally incorrect. Possibly you were talking with another company who does grey market H&R's, but it definitely wouldn't have been us. We deal directly with Quadrant who are the only Australian distributor for H&R springs in Australia - and Jim, David, Trent and Sally down there will be happy to confirm that as well (they might even point you in our direction
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Regarding the height drop with H&R's, we've actually found that they don't seem to drop as much as the stated 35mm. I believe possibly our local cars actually have a lower ride height to the European and US Libs (Legacy's) much the same as the early GC WRX's sat lower here than the rest of the world.