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ralphie

Postby ralphie » Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:10 am

are progressive springs not as good?

had H&R progressive ones on my previous car and there would be an initial slouch before it got down to business. ride however, was excellent
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Postby StanTheMan » Mon Dec 26, 2005 8:57 am

King/Koni or Eibach combo is a pretty good performance Package. Its very simple & extreemly effective. Not too many adjustments possible so quite hard to get wrongly set up.

However.....Ive heard of quite an alarming amount of cars listing to one side. a few mm ....no one would care. I've seen 1 car ......30mm :shock: Now thats a worrie. 2 shocks were replaced under warranty. after the warranty replacement it still listed to 1 side......but the car was sold shortly afterwards. in a lot of casese it is not just the pretensioning issue when installing

I got my King/koni package by default. Went into a suspension place asked them to lower it. No idear what they put in at the time.....did't know/understand or care. It turned out....King springs. 4 weeks later my OEM shock were knackered....... :roll:
It took me another 8mths to save up for some decent shocks. at that stage i'd discovered the big forum. lots of info. Koni was the only way to go.

My king springs have sagged as well. I'm in the middle perch. I've had to compensate. Thatsd how much they've sagged. ....thats tragic.

If i was to do it again. I'd go all the way and seriously consider the Bilstein PSS9 . I'd be way to scared to to touch the King/koni package.
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Postby timk » Mon Dec 26, 2005 9:28 am

I'll probably go with Eibach springs since they do lots of OEM stuff too. I had Koni adjustable height coilovers (with matched Koni springs) on the Civic, but it cost way too much. This time I don't think I'll bother with the adjustable height since I never really used it anyway.
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Postby Okibi » Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:43 am

StanTheMan wrote:..Thatsd how much they've sagged. ....thats tragic....


I did warn you before I got in the car ! :oops:
If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I.
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Postby StanTheMan » Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:52 am

Okibi wrote:
StanTheMan wrote:..Thatsd how much they've sagged. ....thats tragic....


I did warn you before I got in the car ! :oops:



Its OK Okibi.....They'd already sagged before you got in the car.
Just happens that now they are even permanently :lol: :lol: :lol:

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