ChrisBoom
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Registered: 6th Dec 06
Location: Highland
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Reccomend a good set of shocks and springs to replace them?
Find them far too hard, and the fucking bastarding camber adjustment hole thing keeps slipping and making the tracking go off 
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Hamish
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Registered: 4th Apr 05
Location: Ashtead, Surrey Drives: 100bhp Mint with Hole
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bilstein B10
that will teach you for buying cheap shitty coilovers 
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ChrisBoom
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Registered: 6th Dec 06
Location: Highland
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quote:
Originally posted by Hamish
bilstein B10
that will teach you for buying cheap shitty coilovers
I know, never again 
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Steve X16XE
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Registered: 31st Dec 06
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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Which ones did you buy?
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ChrisBoom
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Location: Highland
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Janspeed
Handles well with them, but with it being so stiff skips all over the road.
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Hamish
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Location: Ashtead, Surrey Drives: 100bhp Mint with Hole
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quote:
Originally posted by ChrisBoom
Handles well with them, but with it being so stiff skips all over the road.
thats an oxymoron. How can a car handle well if it skips all over the road?
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ChrisBoom
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quote:
Originally posted by Hamish
quote:
Originally posted by ChrisBoom
Handles well with them, but with it being so stiff skips all over the road.
thats an oxymoron. How can a car handle well if it skips all over the road?
Well, handles well to a degree, then gets shitty.
That sentence didnt make sense 
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Pete_vxl
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Registered: 24th Nov 06
Location: Lochgelly, Fife
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i have these coileys and when first fitted they made it pitch n dive and all round pish but they are ok now but as you say, really stiff
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ChrisBoom
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No use for the roads up here really.
Looking to get a swap with my cousin for his gmax fronts + cash my way untill I can afford a better set.
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Olsrey
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Registered: 13th Jan 07
Location: Bradford Drives: LET Vectra B
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Save up and get some decent coilovers!
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ShEp
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Registered: 9th Aug 05
Location: Dingwall, Highland
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Have you got the smaller springs in the front also on these?
or are these the ones that come with one long spring on the coilover?
ones without the smaller damper spring aren't great at all
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Jordan C
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Registered: 3rd Dec 07
Location: Dundee City Drives: Valver Corsa
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Nah his do have the smaller spring on them! hope there not that bad cos im away to fit them to my car today
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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quote:
Originally posted by Olsrey
Save up and get some decent coilovers!
Save up and get a decent fixed rate kit 
Whats the point in having adjustable this that and the other when in reality it's just a gimmick as it's never used.
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Xs
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Location: Lanarkshire
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You'd probably find they would be fine on track, coilovers arent really suited to our shitty roads!
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ChrisBoom
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Dave A has offered me a set of Bilstein B10s cheap cheap... So tempted
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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Bilstein B10 kit is a deffo I had them on my red one 
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TomWilly
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Registered: 20th Sep 05
Location: Bristol
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Got the B10 on mine
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Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
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coilovers are totally crap on country roads! mine used to find every minute pot hole!
bilstein b10's are 100x better, well if your in the front.. my mates gf got sea sick in my car
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Mobby
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Registered: 31st Dec 07
Location: Leicestershire
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all coilovers are a pain in the arse imo, iv never owned a set but all the things that need to be done after you fit them is unbelievable! corner weighing, tracking camber adjustment!!! fixed set ftw
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Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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Bilstein shocks and Eibach springs! Just cant go wrong!
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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bilstein b12 kit is the way forward, they usually come with h&r springs or Eibach anyway, one of the most popular kits i sell now.
coilovers are great, cheap coilovers arnt so special tho.
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Olsrey
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quote:
Originally posted by broster
bilstein b12 kit is the way forward, they usually come with h&r springs or Eibach anyway, one of the most popular kits i sell now.
coilovers are great, cheap coilovers arnt so special tho.
Spend the time actually setting them up, and you will have the car handling how YOU want it to handle!
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Dean_W
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Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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quote:
Originally posted by Olsrey
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Originally posted by broster
bilstein b12 kit is the way forward, they usually come with h&r springs or Eibach anyway, one of the most popular kits i sell now.
coilovers are great, cheap coilovers arnt so special tho.
Spend the time actually setting them up, and you will have the car handling how YOU want it to handle!
I think broster is trying to say you will get a very good fixed rate kit for the price of some poor coilovers.
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Olsrey
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quote:
Originally posted by Dean_W
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Originally posted by Olsrey
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Originally posted by broster
bilstein b12 kit is the way forward, they usually come with h&r springs or Eibach anyway, one of the most popular kits i sell now.
coilovers are great, cheap coilovers arnt so special tho.
Spend the time actually setting them up, and you will have the car handling how YOU want it to handle!
I think broster is trying to say you will get a very good fixed rate kit for the price of some poor coilovers.
I know that, but I was just stating that if you got some decent coilovers for yes maybe more money but you will have a car that handles how you want it to handle
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Olsrey
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Originally posted by Dean_W
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Originally posted by Olsrey
quote:
Originally posted by broster
bilstein b12 kit is the way forward, they usually come with h&r springs or Eibach anyway, one of the most popular kits i sell now.
coilovers are great, cheap coilovers arnt so special tho.
Spend the time actually setting them up, and you will have the car handling how YOU want it to handle!
I think broster is trying to say you will get a very good fixed rate kit for the price of some poor coilovers.
I know that, but I was just stating that if you got some decent coilovers for yes maybe more money but you will have a car that handles how you want it to handle
totally agree, i have had many sets of susopension on my corsa, avo coil overs, gaz coilovers, koni, now i have bilstein pss-9 coilovers.
you could fit a £2k set of coilovers on the car and it could potentially handle worse than a standard car, people over look the fact a car needs a decent geometery set up to finish it off rather than just bolting bits on
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