« Reply #14 on: 08 June 2021, 18:39 »
I was still vaguely considering them as mine have done 80k, I'm guessing you wouldn't recommend it? 
Maybe they’ve been honed in the last 13 or so years(?)
Personally I’d go for Bilstein gas dampers but not the full on yellow sports dampers which usually need to be paired up with lower stiffer springs due to their more track focussed valving.
I’ve been out of the modifying game a long time now so wouldn’t know what the best dampers are now but usually Bilstein and Koni can be relied on for consistent build quality.
Not going to be a popular opinion, but maybe a 1.2 Tsi is more in your line than a GTi. Why buy a hot hatch and then complain about the ride ? And the GTi has one of the best hot hatch rides. Just baffles me
That’s the thing with buying cars, you never quite know how you’ll get on with them until you’ve spent a bit of time with them. The GTI is well equipped and looks superb so it’s easy to get swept away with that only to find what others consider a pretty comfortable ride doesn’t quite fit in with your ideal.
I come from decades of modified GTI’s and their ilk so have had a good few suspension kits that ended up making me hate the car due to harshness on certain surfaces. It’s very difficult to spend time in a tuner’s company demo car with modified suspension so it’s easy to make a wrong choice, but even buying a standard production car can throw up some unwanted characteristics that a test drive wouldn’t make evident.
I’m no expert but one thing I do know is that fitting retrograde suspension to a sports hatch is a very bad idea.
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