Tanabe spring - paint wear

[Nimble]

That's not the problem. All these answers just confuse the hell out of people that are trying to figure out what the problem is.

First, the stock springs have no sort of rubber cushion on the BOTTOM from the factory. I thought that was weird. When I installed my Tanabe's, they just sit directly on the metal strut bottom, which is obviously going to be a problem with paint wear. I thought about custom fitting a rubber spring pad, but didn't want the front to sit too high. If mine starts to wear through the paint though, I'm doing it regardless.

The weirdest part is the the rear springs have a upper and lower factory spring pad, and the Tanabe springs come with rubber protector material to be wrapped around the rear lower springs. If I was smart, I should've cut the 2 pieces into 4 and wrapped some on the lower front springs. Oh well, I could do that later without removing the springs, just jack it up and wrap it around carefully.

If anyone can find a factory replacement front, lower rubber spring pad, that would fix this problem for good...and probably make the ride even a bit more soft.