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Offline Shizzle

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Re: springs
« Reply #10 on: 17 October 2013, 15:00 »
yeh i like opposite lock steering in front wheel drive safe and effortless and lots of fun  :smug:

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Offline Ess_Three

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Re: springs
« Reply #11 on: 17 October 2013, 17:01 »
I didn't know it was possible to buy such bad rear tyres...Mk3s normally have biblical understeer.

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Re: springs
« Reply #12 on: 17 October 2013, 19:25 »
I bought some cheapies for the front a while back and they are better than the potenzas they replaced :shocked:
As for springs, you will bend the rods at 40mm on oe shocks. Just a matter of time.
Agree on the biblical description lol, nothing like an astra though

Offline Wayne

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Re: springs
« Reply #13 on: 18 October 2013, 00:01 »
If your going to the hassle of fitting springs then replace the shocks with Sachs or Boge, they are underdamped as standard and lowering springs will only make matters worse.