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Offline PhilMart

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #10 on: 07 March 2008, 11:16 »
Quote from: block on 07 March 2008, 10:31
Btw has everybody on here with coilovers needed to have them 4 wheel aligned?
Im only saying cos mine drives perfectly the steering is still at the straight ahead and when we fitted them the only adjustment we could see was on the steering track rod ends, the rest is fixed.
Im thinking 4 wheel alignments are a dealer con :angry: at most i think a normal tracking check would be fine in about a week when its settled, and even then i cant see them actually needing to adjust anything it would be more for my peace of mind.

Off track a little bit, but I feel wheel alignments are a con in themselves unless you hit something very hard. Another car of mine has not had a wheel alignment in 60000kms .. and it appears to be wearing the tyres quite nicely. It may be the car itself, but on other cars I have had, as soon as I started to perform wheel alignments it kept on needing wheel alignments if you know what I mean .. its almost as if the buggers don't tighten it all down .. probably to keep us coming back for more!
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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #11 on: 07 March 2008, 12:22 »
Well ive been out and taken some more pics this morning.....











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Offline jonathonturner

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #12 on: 07 March 2008, 14:30 »
same ride height as mine...now all you need to do is get some rear spacers (eibach 12mm) and some super sticky tyres..ulttrac sessanta's......

handling goes from excellent to just plain rude :laugh:
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Offline Russ.C

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #13 on: 07 March 2008, 14:43 »
Looks good, those LED lights look great on a white GTI by the way :cool:
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Offline Manu_R32

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #14 on: 07 March 2008, 15:26 »
That looks....really nice !  :smiley:
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Offline joesgti

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #15 on: 07 March 2008, 15:34 »
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Offline maxamus

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #16 on: 07 March 2008, 15:56 »
Quote from: block on 06 March 2008, 23:26
Just a quick pic for now as it was getting dark......



I'll report back tomorrow once ive actually had time to drive it. :wink:

Nice house (and car)  :wink:
How much is your car lowered by (mm)?
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Offline maxamus

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #17 on: 07 March 2008, 15:59 »
And whats the difference between coils and springs?
Which is better?
The coils cost more than £300 than the springs (at awesome) ......
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Offline block

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Re: Eibach coilovers
« Reply #18 on: 07 March 2008, 16:14 »
If i lie a ruler flat on the tyre tread and then measure from that to the arch it is 11mm both front and rear, im not sure what it was before but you can compare yours to that.
The coilover kit as you can see from the pics above includes the spring and damper and is height adjustable. This is all tuned to match each other. Springs are just springs, you will have no adjustment in height and you'll be running an uprated spring without an uprated damper which can prematurely wear out your dampers.

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