Originally Posted by
Flite
Christ allmighty... $262 for an entire set of coilovers? I'm sorry, but at that price, I wouldn't trust 'em. I don't care if other people have good luck with them, but I personally wouldn't trust that. If I was looking for "cheap" coilovers for a VW, I'd get KW V1s.
There is no way I'd put my wife out on the road on a $260 set of coilovers.
The dampers should be perfectly safe; that's easy to do. Well, assuming that you don't manufacture MacPherson piston shafts that break. Whether or not they actually do a rough approximation of their job as a damper is completely different. Spring failure is a higher risk...
Originally Posted by
Uzi does it!
not trying to be a dick flite, but thats pretty ignorant, i havent heard a single complaint with these coils, Vmaxx, JOM's, FK streetlines, or any other "generic" coilover. OP do your reasearch and i think you'll be very pleased to know that they are respectable coilovers, no matter if they cost 262 dollars, or 800 dollars.
Originally Posted by
blackout
i completely agree. the 'you get what you pay for' is usually an infallible mindset when buying parts, but i have always been completely convinced that coilovers were insanely overpriced, especially if they don't contain the shock body (which i'm not sure if these do or not, i didn't click the link...). i've been thinking for a while there's probably a pretty good market for a cheap, non-race inspired coilover- it seems like i was right.
I keep deleting and rewriting what to say in response to that.
Even though coilovers are sometimes overpriced, there are reasons why decent ones are expensive.
You can go to someplace like Monroe (are they still around?) and buy a OEM-fit strut for $19.95; it will support the weight of your car and will do its own interpretation of what it thinks damping is.
If you're looking for $19.95 worth of damping on each corner of the car, that may do perfectly fine for you.
If you want something that you can actually call 'damping', you'll have to pay more money.
If you want any of the four dampers to behave similarly to any of the other four, you'll have to pay more money. Same goes for the springs.
If you the damper to last any length of time and still do its own interpretation of what it thinks damping is, you have to pay more money. That nitrogen bladder inside the damper (I'm pretty sure there isn't a floating piston and foot valve on a $65/corner coilover) is usually fragile and can eventually rupture under prolonged abuse (or just from age).
If you want something other than a $10 spring on the damper (lowering springs are $40/set from Raceland), you obviously have to pay more money. A crappy damper can either work or not work, and probably won't cause a catastrophic loss of control, but a $10 spring of completely unknown quality and specification is not the safest thing I can think of..
I think it's incredibly ironic and hilarious that the VW wheel whore crowd (who turn up their noses at things like Rotas) would even consider putting something like those coilovers on their cars. Why is it almost mandatory to buy wheels for VWs that cost over $500 each (you want to run with the cool kids, right?), but perfectly acceptable to put a $65 coilover behind that wheel? Some of the BBS center caps cost more per corner than those coilovers..
Why get the most expensive wheels but the cheapest possible aftermarket [strike]performance[/strike] parts? Does that completely underscore what the VW scene is all about?
Originally Posted by
Uzi does it!
right, they are a full coilover and shock body, just non adjustable dampening, which is fine for a street car that isn't raced or driven crazily. i love mine.
Not trying to be a dick Uzi, but "dampening" isn't what a coilover does. The coilover doesn't make anything wet, or even slightly moist.