Danny P
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Registered: 20th Nov 02
Location: Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire
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My mum works with this bird at work and her boyfriend has a Corsa, he was getting it lowered but didnt have enough money for a full suspension system,
He had -80mm springs so he asked me if he shud get a full kit, i told him he wud definatly need one. Anyway, a few weeks went by and i saw him. Car was lowered, he had did all the hard work with the arches, and looked nice, asked him if he bought full kit and he sed no, thought well its up to him. Anyway i saw him the other day and guess what, the springs fucked on him, now he has a bill for about £300 to get it right again 
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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Nice, what happened? Did he wreck all of his shocks (bottoming them out) or?
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Danny P
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Registered: 20th Nov 02
Location: Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire
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Yeah, Thing is, he cant afford to fix it either
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Stoneyginger
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Registered: 25th Jan 01
Location: Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
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My car is sitting quite comfortably on the standard springs at -50mm  that boy is just plain stupid
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Makarus
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Registered: 25th Jun 02
Location: Nottingham/Derbyshire Boarder.
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Yeah -50mm is just about fine, above that your gonna have problems.
In my eye's if your going to do something then do it properly or not at all.
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Stoneyginger
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Registered: 25th Jan 01
Location: Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
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Personally i never have more than myself and a passenger in the car so i am never putting the suspension under all that much stress at all though if i was to lower anymore then it would have to be a full suspension kit for me 
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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Deffo, I ran -40mm on std and wrecked them in a couple of months.
Stupid thing is, vauxhall prolly want more to replace his std shocks than to fit koni's or something. Tell him to just fit uprated shocks now!
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Lo-Ranger-w
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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Milton Keynes
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Soften the dampers
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Gambit
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Registered: 5th Jun 00
Location: Common Sense HQ
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
Deffo, I ran -40mm on std and wrecked them in a couple of months.
Stupid thing is, vauxhall prolly want more to replace his std shocks than to fit koni's or something. Tell him to just fit uprated shocks now!
bit off topic, but i was ringing around look for 2 new front shocks for my golf, funniest quote was from ATS for two front shocks they wanted £247 and this was only for the parts, to which i just laughed and hung up
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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quote:
Originally posted by Lo-Ranger-w
Soften the dampers
No, run harder and shorter.
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