Well I had my springs for a while, didn't put them on. I waited to get my struts because I did not want to do an alignment 2 times. (I have sportlines and tokico hp's). I wanted to do it right also because about 2-3 weeks after lowering it, I had to drive 1000+ miles down here to TX for college and I just had new tires put on also. There was no way I was going without an alignment and wearing my tires away on the trip. So I made sure I had everything I needed for the first time so I wouldn't have to put on springs, align, get down to TX, replace struts, align, replace tires. Too much work IMO to do stuff 2 times. Do it right the first time is my advice.