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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: coolio on 25 April 2013, 23:22
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anyone knows which one ride and handle better ?
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Same coilovers just different colour, buy the ones with the longest warranty
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Really ....the fk is nearly twice as much as the jom ones
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Neither. They'll be junk.
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I have joms and there not that bad, anyone who says otherwise has too much money on their hands. They lower your car, they are stiff but not that much over stock suspension. Get new bushes all round and your good to go.
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Both are budget coilovers. U want performance/handling you need to speend £600 plus.
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they are both crap in the handeling department.
decent quality gas struts are far superior in the damping departments. anyone who thinks cheep coilovers are an upgrade just had really knackerd suuspention beforehand, a GTi will handel better on fresh stock shocks and springs than it will on cheep coilovers. then try better shocks :wink:
i would avoid coilovers at all costs unless been abel to raise and lower car was an absolute must ( but the cheep ones sieze anyway so no more adjustable than a strut ) handeling wise you only need to upgrade to coilovers when you've got inverted monotube struts and decide there not quite good enough for your race car
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they are both crap in the handeling department.
decent quality gas struts are far superior in the damping departments. anyone who thinks cheep coilovers are an upgrade just had really knackerd suuspention beforehand, a GTi will handel better on fresh stock shocks and springs than it will on cheep coilovers. then try better shocks :wink:
i would avoid coilovers at all costs unless been abel to raise and lower car was an absolute must ( but the cheep ones sieze anyway so no more adjustable than a strut ) handeling wise you only need to upgrade to coilovers when you've got inverted monotube struts and decide there not quite good enough for your race car
so what setup have u got on ur car ?
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He's got Bilstein B12 on the front and OEM Bilsteins on the back.
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I too am looking to lower our type 19 over the next couple of weeks.
Lowering is a must, ride quality not too much of a concern as its hardly used and only for short journeys. Its purely about the looks!
I have seen the JOMs, considered lowered springs with standard shocks and just seen some adjustable spring kits that fit over the original shocks.
I think I will go with the JOM ones as they seem reasonably popular for budget lowering.
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srings and strurts do the job so much better .......
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srings and strurts do the job so much better .......
Not if you only want to adjust the hight of the car
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cheep coilovers only adjust once or twice, dosent take them long to sieze.
they don't actualy last very long before the seals go and they leack, you put them on a track car you'll kill them a few hundred track miles or about 10-15 k on the road
a cheep spring a shock kit of roughly the same price will actualy be quite reasonable quality and have a sensible service life, proably see you out a season or two on the track or 5 - 10 years and 100k on the road, car will also handel better.
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I know it may offend you purists, but JOMs have been ordered and are on their way......
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No, it's fine - you're buying sh*t for your car, not ours.
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ok, i'll take that
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as said, it's your car, your money, your choice.
only offering advice based on whats been tryed and broken in the past
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It was FKs we put on my Golf last October, which threw up down themselves on the same day, wasn't it? :grin:
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indeed it was, fitted and broken on the same day :evil:
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If you can put up with the ride and are able to look after them they will be fine. The do seize quickly though and the coating on the springs will fall off. Although mine were heavily exposed to the winter. Done 1500 miles in them (not leaking or seized but look like an archaeologist just dug them up) before replacing them with AP's (400 quid) and had already done 5000 miles on previous car. Spring coating 100% intact. The difference in ride was substantial.