not this old nutshell again.

I haven't read any of the above, but in a nutshell......you're a fucking rough cunt if you do......the car will be dangerous to drive especially heaven laden, and it'll be an MOT failure if the springs come unseated with the vehicle suspended in the air.

I have heard stories of people using cable ties to keep the springs in position so they re-seat properly, how true it is i don't know.

Above all........its a bodge and you know it.

You'd probably be safer to heat the springs up and squash them down a bit if you're too tight to buy some proper ones