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Civic w/ EDC here. I recently had Bilstein B16 Damptronics installed on my car. Initially I thought it was too stiff, but the dampers are breaking in nicely and although it is still a tad stiff on the smaller stuff, at this point I would say I prefer this kit to the stock suspension.
My car will remain a street car, but I disagree that I wasted money on it. I was actually halfway through the paperwork on trading the car in for a STI (!!!!) because of how boaty the shocks felt, but deal fell through due to the transaction getting sketchy once it hit the finance guy (as usually does). In the end I'm glad the deal fell through, because it appears that the Bilsteins have fixed what I was unhappy with all along. Whereas the stock suspension had way too many oscillations on the bigger bumps, now my car feels like a M3.
So I ended up paying ~$3600 for the kit + install, and now want to keep the car for at least 2 more years until warranty expires. The PSS10 version is even cheaper, as is KW V3, but I'm sure they're great kits that will do the same for you. I may never use the full potential of the Bilstein suspension, but at least I'm enjoying my M3 again instead of moving on to the next thing. Car is just about perfect now for what I'm looking out of it.
For the price of entry of V3s, if you like your car enough, it would be a shame not to at least try it to see if it works for you too.
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