Coilies vs Lowering Springs

[damien010685]

f**k that not being rude but after seeing a pic of your car etc with the work needed I would be buying another golf mate its gonna cost you heaps to get the bodywork right all that on a 98 golf no chance mate what is it a 1.8t?

If u ask people on here buying cheap ends in disaster!

[ShauniiBoii]

like i said im just buying cheap for now and then il buy proper

and all exterior needs is bumper wing and passenger door which use isnt going to cost much at all lol
yeah alot of people have told me to get rid and get something else but tbh dont have the money so all i can do is slowly build it back up mate.

and yeah its 1.8T

[damien010685]

 

like i said im just buying cheap for now and then il buy proper

and all exterior needs is bumper wing and passenger door which use isnt going to cost much at all lol
yeah alot of people have told me to get rid and get something else but tbh dont have the money so all i can do is slowly build it back up mate.

and yeah its 1.8T

Fair enough but even bumper wing and door if it requires spraying will cost etc  i get what our saying its a fair project you have taken on like before you go and splurge all this money on it make sure the engine is sound etc 

[ShauniiBoii]

hahaha... mate tbh the car is a total raft everything about it is rough sadly :\ engine does run fine like but has alot of miles on her like, and yeah im planning on getting a respray when i get my bonus so not to bothered how scratch bits are aslong as there straight

[damien010685]

Welcome to the money pit but just remember what it costs you for a respray you could get a low mileage golf mk4 which doesn't need what yours done and probably a good bit younger at was all my point is pal

[ShauniiBoii]

yeah i know what your saying mate lol, i should by a new one tbh but just cant afford it and its another big project for me lol, bought a Yamaha R6 cat B last year and fixed it all up back to road legal was really great like, lost money in it though but was good.

Are you on TSG mate? see a write up of my car so far lol....

[damien010685]

Lol sorry mate don't associate myself with TSG there are some nice motors in there but most of them are needs in corsas that like to rev there engines at Asda thinking its cool to hear a 1.2 wraps itself to death!!!!

[ShauniiBoii]

youd be quite surprised its fairly changed lol supras scoobys evos a couple 200sx's skyline lotus but yeah you do get the newbies with there lil baby cars lol. But has fairly moved up now that most of us are over 20 haha

[damien010685]

Not in to all that sh!t I like Eastside  I do what I do to my car because I like it not to impress others have met some folk of TSG and they give Scotland a bad name that's all I will say and come on most of the cars at the last TSG meet we're rafts there was a good few nice cars but oer than that it was a corsa sh!t fest

[Granta Gti]

ive found that coilovers are alot better when it comes to handling, haven't had a chance to properly test them on golf but when i had on my astra really felt you could go into a corner pretty hot and not worry about coming out the other side lol

I've got to disagree, £200 coilovers will be nowhere near as good as a £200 spring and shock kit.

Coilovers are firm, but they are too crashy and harsh to let you drive quickly on anything other than the smoothest of a-roads. Try having a back road blast with cheap coilies, I can guarantee you'll get sick of it pretty quickly.

I'm running cheap JOMs. It is a bit crazy and probably no where near the ride of springs but for the money I can't complain.  I'm not expecting miracles out of them. It's all I can afford at the moment as my front standard shocks were knocking so that was the cheapest and better option at the time. They do seem crashy as the spring rate on the front does not seem to match the back. Just learning to take humps slower.