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. I know a lot of these cheaper coilovers get a bit of stick but I used to run Raceland coilovers on my MX5 and I couldn't say a bad word about them, and they were half that price! 
Spring rates, warranty, servicing etc- or sooner- or sooner- but everything ive ever read about cheap coilovers is bad news - do yourself a favour and spend the money on a set of decent brand used coilovers if you must buy coilovers or a decent set of used fixed shocks and lowering springs 
- £225 delivered./ springs- the rear units broke after a week - got free replacement with the 2 year no quibble warranty.£1900 and tbh they were terrible ride height wouldn't go low enough they were stupidly hard etc just horrible to live with now on a different car I ran Jamex coil overs at £180 and couldn't say a bad word about them tbh tho it's down to what you really want I mean if all your bothered about is lows I'd buy the cheap ones!'go' car or a 'show' carjasongtr wrote:coilovers of course are designed for the track, so are not expected to be a decent ride, my opinion is cheap ones are built for the sole purpose of being able to drop the car, which anyone who knows anything isnt the only thing that makes a car handle well, you can of course wind them too low so they dont have anough damper travel to actually work properly, i had this issue on my Teins and the people who set the car up actually ended up raising the ride height.
depends if you want a
"performance" cars parked outside our local KFC on a Friday night. Lowered so much their exhausts drag on the speed humps, and Tonka Toy wheels and tyres. Apparantly, the word on the street it's cool.... 
Peter Gidden - SBITS wrote:jasongtr wrote:coilovers of course are designed for the track, so are not expected to be a decent ride, my opinion is cheap ones are built for the sole purpose of being able to drop the car, which anyone who knows anything isnt the only thing that makes a car handle well, you can of course wind them too low so they dont have anough damper travel to actually work properly, i had this issue on my Teins and the people who set the car up actually ended up raising the ride height.
depends if you want a
Very well put.
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It always amuses me seeing all the
Haven't ever had any problems! Stuck cheapies in and they lasted ages. I have never tracked my cars, so never needed expensive coils.(i.e never ended up backwards in a hedge)
You buy them and the next day he tells you there has been an error and he doesn't have them in stock and needs 2-3 weeks to order them. I cancelled the order, reported him to Ebay who then took down his items and i bought some D2's instead.alanmr2turbo wrote:That guy is a drop shipper.
How do i know? I bought some then he fed me this story and in the end he admited he didnt carry any stock.
I have them on the half way setting and not bad at all. I've had Teins HA - hardest even on the softest. Made me even want to stop driving my car they were that uncomfortable. - came with the car very good, slightly harsh ride when soaking up bumps. - the main thing about these are how good they are at soaking up the bump on crappy roads. Hard setting is how you would expect.(After Germany, where the roads and the Nordschleife make them wonderful) for reason of hardness. As stated above, they're a seriously unforgiving ride and on the b-roads around here lead to the MR2 trying to snap the wheel from me as it crashes over divots. I'm half tempted by a set of bog standard new dampers from GTS Chris as they seem quite reasonable - worried this might be too far in the other direction though....(Testing my patience)(Competent but dull)
