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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Bellend on 02 February 2011, 17:34

Title: Cheap top mounts
Post by: Bellend on 02 February 2011, 17:34

Don't do it.

Combine the cheapest top mounts you can buy, so cheap you don't even get a bearing, plus coilovers wound down = new ones every.... wait for it..... 1342 miles.  :shocked:

My knocking was the top mounts.  :rolleyes:

Buy cheap, buy a million times.

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: Khare on 02 February 2011, 17:41

Cheap? The febi stuff is only £10! If you can't stretch that far then.....I've got no comment  :laugh:


Febi all the way  :cool:

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: jonnypolish on 02 February 2011, 18:34

LOL my Febi VR top mounts were £13 something!
Thats cheap enough for me to warrant not looking for any cheaper :D

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: tshirt2k on 02 February 2011, 21:14

Agreed. Even lemforder form ECP don't last. Went to dealer. They are £14 without the bearing

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: Wayne on 02 February 2011, 23:55

I never had any problems with the Febi ones.

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: rubjonny on 03 February 2011, 09:39

Quote from: tshirt2k on 02 February 2011, 21:14

Agreed. Even lemforder form ECP don't last. Went to dealer. They are £14 without the bearing

were they actually lemforder though? ecp have a habbit of sending you cheap crap even though their website says they're lemforder.

mine were lemforder off ebay, and they were definitly oem. even had the vag part numbers on them ;)

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: tshirt2k on 03 February 2011, 18:00

Quote from: rubjonny on 03 February 2011, 09:39

Quote from: tshirt2k on 02 February 2011, 21:14

Agreed. Even lemforder form ECP don't last. Went to dealer. They are £14 without the bearing

were they actually lemforder though? ecp have a habbit of sending you cheap crap even though their website says they're lemforder.

mine were lemforder off ebay, and they were definitly oem. even had the vag part numbers on them ;)

They were in the box. I tend not to question what's in the box if I asked for that brand.

They haven't lasted. I thought they may have been for a lesser model as they seem to struggle with the weight.

Title: Re: Cheap top mounts
Post by: rubjonny on 04 February 2011, 09:19

if they diodnt have vw part numbers on id question if they were lemforder. ecp will sell you 'q drive' crap instead nowadays which arnt the same stuff even though they will try to tell you it is