Lowering for aesthetics

[flashpixx]

Looking at these: EIBACH / PRO-STREET-S COILOVERS

Teilekatalog

or FK Highsport Coilover Suspension Kit

http://www.dpmperformance.co.uk/fk-highsport-coilover-suspension-kitbr-polo-9n-12-14-14tdi-gti-18t-19sdi-19tdi-1101-p-7795.html

FK are half the price, not stainless steel.

Thoughts?

[flashpixx]

Hey mate unfortunately the Eibachs won't give you any noticeable lowering. They say 20mm but that's on a normal Polo 9n. The GTI has factory lowering of 15mm so you only get 5mm more than GTI stock.

Interestingly Eibach (Oz) state the springs for the Polo GTI are 20mm lower than GTI (ie 35mm total) and this is confirmed by Damian at DPR.

[VWindahouse]

Mate it's your car and your money. But there is a reason absolutely no one has the Eibachs on here. The last poor bugger that bought some about 6 months or so ago put his up for sale straight away because and I quote "they haven't lowered the car at all"

The only true drop of 35mm is from the H&R's which is why everyone has them who hasn't gone for coilovers.

Your call mate.

[flashpixx]

Thanks for that. Just pointing out what Eibach are saying re the 20mm.

Perhaps if the car is of any age at all say >1 year old and the suspension has settled a 20mm drop doesn't yield 20mm.

And thanks for allowing me to make the call mate, I'm calling coilovers

[VWindahouse]

And a good call that is

Which ones are you leaning towards?

[flashpixx]

probably FK, well definitely FK, however not sure if I will go with Highsport or the slightly more expensive stainless version of the Highsports.

[s4mmie]

I wouldn't bother with stainless, not so much of an issue here as the UK where they salt the roads.
I still can't believe it looking at UK cars and seeing a brown rusted mess on a car a few years old...

[PeanutButterWolf]

Re: Lowering for aesthetics

Hey mate, keep in mind that buying the stainless version might not be all that necessary.

If we were living in Europe where the roads are constantly being salted in winter I would say get stainless for sure, but not so much in sunny Australia.

I've had my FK streetlines in for the past year and a half and there's not a spot of rust anywhere. Friends of mine have had them in for even longer, and they're still 100%

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[noone]

If its pennies, why not... Same reason I bought KW's over the Weitec, apparently the same, but I spent a few more $$$ for perception of a better product.

Once its in, you cant pay a bit more for the better product.

[flashpixx]

difference in price between silverline (stainless) and highsport is 75 (460 vs 385) quid. I'm told they have essentially the same components the difference being the silverline are stainless.

[flashpixx]

going with these around $700 landed

FK Highsport Coilover Suspension Kit Polo 9N 1.2, 1.4, 1.4TDi, GTi 1.8T, 1.9SDi, 1.9TDi 11/01> - £385.00 : The premier online mail order VAG suspension and performance specialists. We offer a wide range of all the best branded suspension and performa

[flashpixx]

Done some more thinking and research on this.

I had settled previously on FK Highsport Coilover Suspension Kit, but now thinking a fixed length coil + quality damper.

Looking at H&R 35mm matched to Bilstein B8. Cost is 200 quid more from Damian at DPM. I'm sure he is sick of me

I am looking for aesthetics more than performance. Am I throwing away 200 quid?

[s4mmie]

Reportedly a good combo. This is what I was going to go with before I chose the KW's to go a bit lower.
FK's ride nice and have the adjust-ability as a pro. In the end, they're all just a shock with a spring around them, so it's up to what you want as a final result. It's really hard to give advice on how a certain combo feels as every one is different. I was told that the KW's were pretty firm, but I think they're surprisingly comfortable.

Personally I don't think there's $300 difference in ride quality to go the H&R/Bilstein's over the FK's. Especially if you're going for aesthetics, you can fine tune it with the FK's.

I know how hard it is to nail down the coilovers you want, I spent months deciding

[flashpixx]

Personally I don't think there's $300 difference in ride quality to go the H&R/Bilstein's over the FK's. Especially if you're going for aesthetics, you can fine tune it with the FK's.

I know how hard it is to nail down the coilovers you want, I spent months deciding

Thanks, I'm tired of trying to decide. Always curious as to the longevity of coilovers. It is the damper that will fail if anything, so a better quality damper should be sturdier... I'm not much of a tinkerer so the suspension will be a set and forget thing. I wonder what the extra $300 buys in coilovers?? Have to pay for instal too

[Buller_Scott]

Hi flashpixx,

You don't know me and you probably wouldn't have seen me post on here before.

I had a 9n3 polo TDI with FK Konigsport coilies, with the koni rebound adjustable shock absorbers.

They were forking good. Seemed like a pretty quality piece of kit, and the rebound adjustability meant that I could do what many people around this neck of the (car forum) woods enjoy doing - playing around with damper settings for optimum balance and performance (especially given that I had a heavy diesel engine up front - I spent quite a while with damper settings and tyre pressures, not to mention practically throwing away a couple of perfectly good tyres in my quest to turn my car into an incognito murderer).

If you are set on a spring - damper combo, then that's cool. In my humble experience, I will quote Josh (golfman, on the forums): a set spring and damper combo is good, but you'll find the adjustability of coilovers to be valuable in time" - I spent about a week on various roads, under various driving conditions (highway to tyre screeching in the corners over 50km's of road), experimenting with tyre pressure increases, and I could only conclude by my tyre gauge that reads to 0.1 psi, that having my driver side front raised 12+mm higher than my pax side front, was better for balance.

Take from that what you will, but there ARE solutions out there for damping adjustable suspension - and the FK Konigsport is an underrated kit, if you ask me.

Hope this give some insight, and good luck

Scotty