GolfGTIforum.co.uk

General => General discussion => Topic started by: volkyguy on 23 November 2006, 23:23

Title: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: volkyguy on 23 November 2006, 23:23
hey guys,
i need advice. i jus got 16 inch rims for my golf with 205/45 tires and put bilsteins gas shocks. the ride is so hard. i feel like im in a rally car or smethng.the holding has also become worse. would it help if i put boge oil shocks instead?
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: J.stafford16v on 24 November 2006, 00:29
Stick with the gas m8, they should soften up after a while, either that or you will get use to the need for fillings. :wink:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: volkyguy on 24 November 2006, 08:04
yeah, i might just get used to it:-) but the holding is pathetic.it understeers all over the place.there must be somethng else i can do to improve it...
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: tobz. on 24 November 2006, 09:46
Have you had the tracking and camber reset since fitting the new shocks???
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: GT3 Turbo on 24 November 2006, 11:54
what springs and anti-roll bar are you using??  :smiley:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: Len on 24 November 2006, 12:11
Also what tyres? cheap budget tyres are not very grippy!

Stick with the gas shocks anyway whatever, but do all the checks, tyre pressures, tracking/toe/camber. And £50 to £60 is about right to get those checked and adjusted properly.
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 01 May 2007, 23:32
Hmm, im gonig for gas I think, but read this aobut having shakey fillings and everything, yet, also hear good, seems to be much of a muchness..

Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: Rmachines on 02 May 2007, 10:44
Stick with gas!  It depends on how much your cars lowerd. they usualy soften up a little bit after a while.   Did u trim down ur bump stops?  you might be hitting them all the time   :grin:  Just try to get used to it... just think it looks mean from outside, and its worth sacraficing the comphort for looks  :evil:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 02 May 2007, 14:59
Boge gas on standard springs  :wink:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 02 May 2007, 15:07
i cant bear with the comfort loss due to driivng very bumpy roads, altohugh that will be over before i change the shocks admitted..

but im still worried of road noise ocming thorugh, and it genenrally being a bit bumpy and harsh?

rubjonny constnatly tells me, gas is a better shock.. and admitted in his gti i didnt reeally notice a diff, or maybe thats cause i wasnt thikning aboot it..

i cant really drop it due to havign a car load at times, transporting a soundsyste, it would literealy roll on top the tyres  :laugh:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: bomp on 03 May 2007, 23:33
Yup, get your tracking done.  I had my tracking and camber done today (camber can only be adjusted if you got the smaller shank bolts on the struts) and its like I've had power steering put on my car because the steering is so much lighter now. It'll be better on the fuel and tyres too.

Cost me £68
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: Dinky on 06 May 2007, 15:21
swapping my oil fer gas today...is the way forward dude! :wink:

Dinx :kiss:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 06 May 2007, 16:17
oooh let me know how it feels if you can darlin'!  :smiley:

going for comfort instead o the turbo gas  :smiley:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: Dinky on 07 May 2007, 22:10
Muchos better..and thats after one drive, about five hrs after fitting em..
Mine had just died though..totally leaking and knackered (the oil ones)..:laugh:

Dinx :kiss:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 07 May 2007, 23:49
wicked! I best get round to doing it soooon

mine have been gone a while, im sure, ones definately fried, think the other fronts on its way.. or maybe has gone i cant even remember now  :grin: and the back sits low as fo0k  :undecided:

Oooh, You;ve got me excited now Dinx..

(cue some misquotes of that)

 :grin:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: Dinky on 08 May 2007, 18:34
:grin:
you'll not regret it hun...and it doesn really take that long..
i also greased up all inside of where the leg fits..just to keep any dreaded rust at bay!
next is the back ones.. as the new hubs are on too :smug:
she soo needs a waxoyl..im now contemplating takin the kit off just to have a look... :undecided:

Dinx :kiss:
Title: Re: golf mk2 gas or oil shocks?
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 08 May 2007, 19:11
good thing is ive got access to workshop space fully kitted for £25 a day maybe less if i do a cheeky deal.  :grin:

sounds like a plan there, i was gonna clean that out good n proper up inside the aches and that. was thinking while the beams off and that for the rear bushes, and the fronts were out to do a strip of the undercarriage and waxoyl the barsteward right up. easy up on a ramp? apart from getting covered in the stuff lol, was gonna buy the wacoyl start kit thing, or could i pay to get it done proper?

thatd be for the sake of doing it though, but i guess its all worth it in the end.  :smiley:

what else did i think of just then? ive forgotten  :embarassed:

oh yeh, my exhausts blowing to if anyone can help, i bought a full system apart from the intermediate pipe, and i fitted it myself on the side of the road but i think every part needs shifting around to stop the annoying blow, tis not huge but i know its there sorta thing..

might take it to a zaust place and offer cash for them to part it all realign it all and do it up  :huh: