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Originally Posted by McRussellPants
Uhhmm... if anything preloading raises the car.
I preloaded my KTS on the front and my thinking was - to get the spring out of the way so the lower bracket can go higher. but really the shock just compresses less when you drop it and it ends up being higher. mine went down 1-2cm when I took the preload out.
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He proloaded the shocks, not the springs.
Basically, if the coilover is in your hands, and not on the car, you would loosen the lower spring purches and move them down, until your spring is no longer seated on the purches, but is free to move around.
That way, when the weight of the car is put on the coilover, the shock compresses, and thus preloads, before the spring even seats. But once the spring seats, the shock stops preloading any more.
That's what you have to do to your coilovers if you want to lower your car more, but cannot do it with the lower bracket anymore.