Re: Lowering
Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 21:44
There's no need to buy a full adjustable kit. Just get the -50mm AVO springs and the standard Bilsteins
happy camper wrote:rears take about 30 mins a side and require no specialist tools just a fat mate to push the arm down to get the old spring out once the shock has been disconected.
Fronts are more involved and will need spring compressors but it aint rocket science, one thing you'll need to do is to get under the van and start spraying all the bolts that will need to come undone with wd40 to make your own life easier, i replaced my springs and shocks with the £200 lowering kit from e'bay and its great value for money fits like a glove and totaly transformed the wooley handling, it took me half a day to fit but that was in a fully fitted vehicle workshop.
here she is once lowered
If that's a £200 e-bay item...
It looks okay now....
If they are red springs with yellow dampers then it won't last long, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
I used to sell them, I had a few warranty issues, I stopped selling them.
Bushes fall out of the dampers.
Ends break off the dampers.
They just don't last very long.
The springs sag, fairly quickly.
Great price, not so great product.
Sorry to sound harsh, I suppose it could be construed as sour grapes against another trader, not so, I don't like to see people waste their money.
They are okay initially but in the end you will be replacing them.