MK3 - Coilover Advice

[Gavv8]

Potholes will kill £155 joms or £800 bilsteins just the same...

[Foreveryoungaus16v]

Don't drive with your eyes shut then

[Gavv8]

Not so easy to spot them if your pushing on a bit down a dark windy road and its raining.

[Foreveryoungaus16v]

True true

[jimmydub]

Potholes will kill £155 joms or £800 bilsteins just the same...

I've just fitted joms to mine £155 delivered from eBay. Ride is ok so far...

Sub £200 sets are all pretty much the same though, just different color springs and stickers

so thats the general consensus on the SUB 200 mark, surely there can't be alot between them and say the 250/300 mark in comparison. end of the day, how inferior can these parts be to a 500 set or even a grand set? in reality they're all cheap aint they!

thanks again for the input everyone

budget are sounding better by the minute to be honest. worse case scenario, they get replaced on the next pay cheque right.

dunno about you boys neck of the woods but the potholes are f**kin hard to miss round my way theres that many of them! i must look like a right piss head to anyone behind me!

[GOLF-MK3-GTI]

I've got TA Technics in my mk3, been in for last 4 years, not once they've given me a problem, my car is quite low too, but ride is bouncy and I run 38psi in my tyres lol

[Dogbot]

Hey jimmy the seller is round the corner to me, I know him fairly well, top bloke owns a shop, as it happens these are like everyone says much of a muchness, just thort it might be of a help to know what the seller is like just invade there are any issues

[joshstanvw]

Mine are Prosport (identical to JOM) and i have the car dropped around 70mm it handles really well. They are hard and bouncy but thats what i wanted. (the missus goes nuts though)

[Ess_Three]

Potholes will kill £155 joms or £800 bilsteins just the same...

I don't agree.
Quality dampers are made and finished to a better standard, have better seals and are generally valved better and offer better protection against bottoming out and blowing seals.
I tried cheap coilovers in the past, and burt them.

My current Konis have been on for 12 years...and they are still perfect...despite hitting the odd pothole hard enough to bend a wheel.

[robjackson]

I used 'Siverlines' on my 4dr mk3 and they ticked all the right boxes but like all coilovers had there do's donts and drawbacks.
Theyr made in the 'Jamex' factory appparntley, and are basically the same gear.

In my experience, they were the whole same deal as my weitec hicon-gt's, that I used on my passat B4 estate.

It seems to me theyr all much of a muchness.

A few years back! But at gwentVW the silverlines were 250 delivered including vat, and the wietecs were about 650-odd. i was very happy with both.

I thought both cars handeled more or less the same and hope you hav as much fun as I did.
Get stuck in lad, and get it slammed