996 C4s lowering/suspension

[Diablos-666]

I’m thinking of lowering my car as I think it sits too high.
I’ve been doing some research on the PH forums and most suggest that just putting on some lowering springs just won’t cut the mustard. I’ll need a decent set of coilovers.
The price of coilovers vary massively, I’m not a regular track-day goer, but have been Spa recently, so don’t need massive adjustability and as the pork is my only car it needs to drivable on our roads.
I think I’ve settled on a set of Bilstein b16 pss9 - demon tweaks are offering a discount at the moment and the set are priced at around £1,800 inc VAT which is the best price I’ve found.
Does anybody have an advise regarding these? Ideally I’d like to speak with a decent garage that would be able to install these and align the car properly and to see if they have any comments on this product or if I’ll need to invest in any other upgrades (sway bar, toe links, control arms etc...) as the suspension seems a bit of a minefield really.
BTW I’ve heard a lot of good things about Centre of Gravity but was hoping there would be a place closer to SE London I could use.

[Diablos-666]

The reason I initially opted against just getting lowering springs is that the standard dampers have been spec’ed to be used with the standard springs. Surely using lowering springs with the original dampers will cause premature wear?
I might re-look into it and see if anyone else has had problems with this set-up.

[Diablos-666]

I’ve looked up the H&R lowering springs and they are designed to work with standard shocks. They are priced at £260 for the set.

My car is an 2005 C4s with 94k miles so I’m thinking the car could do with some new coilovers anyway.