I couldnt agree with you more. I was going to go with straight springs but like you said I dont want to have to replace parts later, so the reason this kit looks great is because it comes wiht struts and shocks so the new springs will not wear our them. It will improve handelding/cornering greatly from what I heard. It lowers 1.5 inches, and gets rid of that ugly wheel gap whileout sacrificing ride quality. And 30 days later after installing there should be an allignment done from what I read. As for the roads in Texas, I might stay away from lowering but it depends, sometimes you can get away with it by just going extra slow! Hopfully someone can comment that has this installed and correct me if I was wrong anywhere above, Sonny1213 and I will be diligently waiting!