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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Kent on 26 May 2012, 23:13
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Hello,
The other day I hit a pot hole and snapped the N/S/F spring. Is there any place where you can just buy a new spring
Cheers
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Many but easiest is to call venom motorsports as I know they do spares for FK.
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Sweet did not know that.
On it tomorrow!!
Cheers Dude
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Called Venom and they have confirmed that you have to go direct to FK.
They also advised that they want to be able to ge the parts but cant get them off FK
Awesome also advised the same thing.
cheers
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Odd, not that long ago that they got some bits for a friend from FK. Saying that, he does like going round for a brew :grin:. Failing that, Im pretty sure you can order direct from their website (FK's that is).
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The girl on the phone did say they will break a kit now and then.
Sent a message to FK this morning but no reply as yet!! Not the normal German efficeney you come to expect!! :laugh:
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How hard did you hit a bloody pot hole.. you sure you've caused no other damage ?
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I can only assume a pot hole!! Birmingham is shocking for them!! And if your heavy on the right foot its like the Lombard rally sometime!!
I can see the bottom of the main coil has gone where it tapers off.
I’m struggling to get anything out of FK. So I think I will get Boge Turbo's and Eibach Springs next week.
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Less than 30 seconds worth of googling and hey presto, FK's website.... http://www.carparts-tuning.co.uk/en/Suspension-Tuning/Coilovers-Accessories/
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Yes I managed to navigate google to locate that website. :laugh:
Each part has a number listed which is suited to its respective car. This is because of compression and rebound rates.
The Mk2 is FK1767 This is not listed on the web site so im emailing them to obtain it which is proving difficult.
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Thinking about it and from looking at other sites I have found this.
Springs for small engine: FK1866 (60N7mm)
springs for bigger engines: FK1767 (70N/mm) - VWVortex say engines like v5,v6 & 1.8T
Therefore would FK1866 with a lower compression rate suite my mk2 digi 8v?
Im no expert but would this just see the ride a little softer if anything?
What do you think?
Cheers
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For what its worth, I used to have a set of the same coilovers on my mk2 and I thought the spring rates were far far far too stiff for the damping (it pogoed me off the road to the inside of a corner on one occasion). I did try it with the rear springs on the front and vice versa and the softer rear springs (from memory 60N/mm, fronts are 70N/mm) on the front did help a little bit but my own thoughts from the time were that the fronts should be more in the range of 25 to 40N/mm but I never got round to testing this as I was offered a swap by someone who knew how unhappy I was with them but only wanted them to get low.
One thing I did discover while I was looking at this was that VW homologated the 16v golf for competition in 1986 with spring rates of approximately 21N/mm at the front and 16N/mm at the rear which is ever so slightly different to the rates that FK chose to say the least and told me that my thinking on softer being much better would be correct.... For reference you can find the homologation papers here: http://www.vwmotorsport.com/vwtech/files/Golf%202%20GTI%2016-valve%20Group%20A%20,%20A-5295,%201781.32cc.pdf (http://www.vwmotorsport.com/vwtech/files/Golf%202%20GTI%2016-valve%20Group%20A%20,%20A-5295,%201781.32cc.pdf)
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The link does not seem to work can you check it please as would like to read it.
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Works fine for me :grin:, just downloads a pdf??