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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: funk3y on 17 August 2012, 12:06
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Whats the best coilovers within a budget of around £400?
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Well imho from what I have read about & having personally been in a car with them fitted I personally feel the Weltec GT kit is the best :cool:
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Please search.....there are thousands of threads about coilovers already.
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For that budget Weitec Hicon GTs. I think when I was looking to bring mine in from the UK they were £449.00. Well worth the extra £49 IMO.
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Sorry about the huge bump.
Rather starting new thread i'd rather write on here.
Looking at weitec coilovers. I'm sure i've read many times previously that they were in the region of £400ish.
Only price i'm seeing now is £700 or so.
Anyone advise? thanks.
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guessing they have went up in price mate, I know the time I bought mines they where on offer.
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Yeah iv been looking at these but unfortunately i can only find them for upwards of £700
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Someone selling a set in classifieds... :rolleyes:
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Didn't look hard :tongue:
http://www.candrenterprises.co.uk/shop/weitec-hicon-gt-coilover-kits-vw-10-97.html (http://www.candrenterprises.co.uk/shop/weitec-hicon-gt-coilover-kits-vw-10-97.html)
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Thank you Dom. At least I know where to find them if I need to do an emergency purchase!
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FK high sports will be around the 380 mark and they are a good bit if kit
http://www.carparts-tuning.co.uk/en/Suspension-Tuning/Coilovers/?_artperpage=48&filterKategoriePfadROOT%2FSuspension+Tuning=Coilovers&filterKategoriePfadROOT=Suspension+Tuning&filterVehicle+Model=Golf+4&filterVehicle+Manufacturer=VW&verbose=true&catalog=true&searchparam=%2A
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They were on sale not long ago reduced from 500 to 279.00thibk it was the main FK site
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Had some fk sport edition plus 2 years ago. Cost me 460. Shocks had gone within 12 months. I definitely didn't think they were worth the money :undecided:
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My brothers got kw variant 2 on his fiesta st dont know how long theyve been on the car or the millage done but the thing is like a rally car you almost cant tell your cornering its on rails think they set the previous owner back around 1K i think you get what you pay for really with suspension
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Had some fk sport edition plus 2 years ago. Cost me 460. Shocks had gone within 12 months. I definitely didn't think they were worth the money :undecided:
Many people run Fk without probs sounds like you were unlucky chief 2 yr warranty with FK coils surely u got a return or replacement?
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They said they stopped doing them haha. Bought some joms as a cheap replacement.
Wish I had the money for kw! This car is too costly.
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KW is Epic but as said to a lot of people 1 grand on suspension is a lot of cash! The Fk Highsport and Silverline range get great reviews from various forums as rich says you pay for what you get
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get the cheapest you can find. ive had them on all 3 of my mk4's and 2 of my BMW's ranging from eibach, weitec, hotuning, FK,and jamex
and i found all of them are the same except for the jamex as they were extremely bad.
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My view on weitec vs jom as ive had both
Joms: corrode quite easily if not looked after, ALOT CHEAPER THAN WEITECS, softer/bouncier ride than W's and no tab for r32 arb
Weitecs: again corrode badly if not looked after, expensive, very harsh ride, does have tab for arb, and dont look cheap like the joms
My personal opinion is that i wasted £400 on them when my joms were perfectly fine !
Go for joms you get a lengthy warranty just make sure you grease the ballbags out of them
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You will get brand new AP Coilovers for 400 and they are 3 times better than joms. The cheap coilovers are horrific, even more so when very low.
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know people with AP coilovers and the more expensive FK coilovers, the AP ones seem exactly the same in terms of ride as mine (fk ak streets), just they payed over twice what i did. the more expensive FK ones i saw a slight improvement over, but not one that i could warent spending the amount of money they cost on.
IMO FK AKs are great, cheep and do the job,heard lots of bad stories about them but i think its just people being unlucky or not instaling/looking after them correctly.
also know someone who had wietechs on his golf, had them on for two months, took them off sold them, bought fk aks and a few other cheeper parts with the money he got from his weitechs.
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know people with AP coilovers and the more expensive FK coilovers, the AP ones seem exactly the same in terms of ride as mine (fk ak streets), just they payed over twice what i did. the more expensive FK ones i saw a slight improvement over, but not one that i could warent spending the amount of money they cost on.
IMO FK AKs are great, cheep and do the job,heard lots of bad stories about them but i think its just people being unlucky or not instaling/looking after them correctly.
also know someone who had wietechs on his golf, had them on for two months, took them off sold them, bought fk aks and a few other cheeper parts with the money he got from his weitechs.
Thats exactly what i want to do except go back to joms not fks but i seriously cannot be assed !
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Just to let you know, I ordered the weitecs from candrenterprise. Later that day, I received a call from them, they were surprised how I managed to order them as it's not on their website anymore. They told me that weitec had dramatically increased their price at Christmas.
Candr have now charged me a total of £645 which isn't too bad but will take 10-14 days :undecided:.
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I would tell them to do one and save your money and get fk or jom just get them installed properly and take care of them
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i've had fk and joms. Time for something new :smug:
I think 10-14 days is a bit of a piss take though. Going to see if anywhere else stocks it as i need them urgently!
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Fair enough fella as always never get mugged off ever my friend and if you do never tell anyone :whistle:
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Oh gutted i was al ready for buying these at that price to. Hmm might hold off now until something comes up on offer