Air helper springs...

Now are they actually any good, I wouldn't mind some new springs on my 200 disco and if I were to get some, I'd most likely go for HD +2", maybe, or just normal HD springs. Obviously with this slight lift the road handling would go down the ****ter and I've heard air helper springs make it less ****e.

Is this true or was I misinformed?

I mean this kind of thing:
Air Helper Springs for Land Rover - LandyOnline Workshop

Cheers!!!

We used to use Firestone Aeon springs back in the 1970's, they were very good indeed, they did pneumatic or just the rubber block type.

Used them on a variety of trucks and a couple of Landies, plus an F250 Ford and an AMC Jeep. No issues at all, most of the vehicles carried a generator on the back, the American vehicles were camera cars.

Peter

Fair enough, now maybe I should have said what I use my disco for, mainly on road, but I go offroad a bit, so I'm slowly pimping and modding it for offroad, got some nice 235x85 pirelli scorpion muds etc etc.

Just fancying new springs and shocks as my shocks and dampers are going rusty and have holes!! So I'm thinking I may as well have a bit of a lift, like I said, I don't want to completely destroy the road handling but I still want max articulation.

Is this what the air helpers actually do? What is there actual primary purpose?