Lowering Questions

1) you can lower the car yourself if you feel competent. It's not an extremely difficult task but also not for novices. Shops usually charge around 150 for doing springs.

2) You can get adjustable camber bolts for the front to adjust the camber to your liking. An alignment shop can do that for you.

3) The typical advantage of getting bigger/wider wheels is for tire selection and added width.

 

Just don't let the damn thing recoil (10:26) in your face and end up DOA, lol. If you do your own work I'd recommend a spotter so if things go south you have someone watching your back.

 

^ definitely. Whenever, I have to lift the car and get under it, I always feel safer with a buddy to help out.

 

Lowering using Yaris kits work very well as long as you limit drop to about an inch. Eibach makes good stuff. You can do the change yourself if you are a competent mechanic but not if you aren't. Compressing the spring to remove and replace is a very careful procedure and dangerous if it slips free from the holder. You can rent the compressor reasonably. And you can watch videos on utube too, even for the Yaris. Make sure you do the alignment afterward !
Wider wheels are great benefit in allowing wider high performance tires. When combined with de-activation of the front anti-sway bar will enhance handling by reducing understeer. For incresing mpg where narrower tires are preferred, wider wheels aren't that useful. If you do choose wider tires make sure you don't inrease the diagram of the tire over OEM so not to hurt mpg. s the tire weight increases the diameter shoulder decrease slightly, but not directly. New wheels with offsets from 40 to 45 mm and rim width to 6 inches work well with light weightpreferred though not as important as low weight for tires. BTW rim widths to 7 inches are not useful because the tire width increases drastically the tire weight.
Our recommended combination is 15x6 wheels with 40mm offset and 195/55x15 tires or 16x6/40 wheels with 195/50x16 tires. With the tires a good high performance all weather tirewhich you can investigate with Tirerack.com.
good luck.