diff --git a/applications/utilities/mesh/manipulation/renumberMesh/renumberMeshDict b/applications/utilities/mesh/manipulation/renumberMesh/renumberMeshDict
index 7cd0fb8c5168a8d5eb3c7bcf3b958b2e24173c56..7ff33fc530ed8f5303ed060a89fd3dfe9094f0f3 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/mesh/manipulation/renumberMesh/renumberMeshDict
+++ b/applications/utilities/mesh/manipulation/renumberMesh/renumberMeshDict
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ manualCoeffs
 springCoeffs
 {
     // Maximum jump of cell indices. Is fraction of number of cells
-    maxCo 0.1;
+    maxCo 0.01;
 
     // Limit the amount of movement; the fraction maxCo gets decreased
     // with every iteration
-    freezeFraction 0.9;
+    freezeFraction 0.999;
 
     // Maximum number of iterations
     maxIter 1000;