Jamex Coilovers...

[AdamRoutley]

does anybody rate these on their leons?

http://www.toys4cars.co.uk/index.ph...o&cPath=2736_1426_2403_2411&products_id=11008

thanks adam

 

[Stu_pot]

'You pays your money and takes your choice'

Budget, cheap and cheerful, if you go low with them you'll find them hard, crashy and generally unpleasant.

They will do the job of getting you lower without a doubt but the ride quality will suffer, they just cannot control the damping like better quality kits.

 

[AdamRoutley]

fair enough haha

just know of two people that have them on a bora and a mk4 golf, and could get them fully fitted for 400, so its an option...anybody else?

 

[browner01]

i bought a set of jamex off ebay for my bora last year, worst thing i done. they sent the wrong ones out (well im assuming they were the wrong ones because they fitted horribly.

when i finally did get them on properly there was alot of clunking on full lock. (and yes they were fitted properly haha)

so if there on ebay i wouldnt recomment them, wouldnt know bout any other shops.

mike

 

[Cupraloon]

If it were my hard earned i would'nt touch jamex with barge pole, i had a jamex spring/damper kit fitted to a pug gti i had in the early 90's after a magazine recommendation and it handled like a 3 wheeled shopping trolley afterwards....

Worse than standard, and were removed within 2 weeks,

Having said that things have moved on since then, and hopefully jamex are making better quality dampers, than in 1993...

You pays yer money and takes yer chance, if it were me tho' i'd buy something with a better rep, tbh...

 

[Jay20VT]

Koni's all the way...

 

[AdamRoutley]

not really got a high budget for this as i intended on getting some arbs aswell..

 

[Stu_pot]

What's your budget?

 

[AdamRoutley]

well..i heard from a friend that midland performance will supply and fit the jamex for 400...so im lloking round the same price, with fitting...could stretch to about 500

 

[Stu_pot]

so £500 plus rollbars?

 

[AdamRoutley]

nah...500 for the coilys, arbs will have to wait for the time being

 

[Stu_pot]

Koni RHA Coilover Kit Leon (NOT LCR) SU-KIT-COIL-LEO-RHA1 £465 +Vat

From Awesome, ask and you shall receive...a 10% forum discount (I always do)

 

[AdamRoutley]

what about fitting? how much roughly am i looking at, and can any garage do it?

just looked at the konis..i think there a little out my price range.

what about these http://www.rimstyle.com/pages/produ...ble_co;type=fk_highsport;model=1050;id=FKSEHI

 

[Stu_pot]

Yeah FK are ok, weitec are even cheaper and are made by FK...

Like I and others have said, you pays your money and you takes your choice...

To put it in perspective, the Bilstein PSS9 kit is double the money...

They are not hard to do at all, very straight forward if you have jack, stands and a good range of sockets and spanners or a good friend

You don't want to be paying more than £20 a corner to fit really as you will need an alignment done after.

 

[AdamRoutley]

kk, thanks for all the info dude! you been a great help..nice one!

 

[Stu_pot]

No probs, Walsall? Thats Brum isn't it? Andy who owns PSI tuning in Staffs would be a good bet, he's ex AwesomeGTi and an excellent MVT with a brilliant rep.

http://uk-mkivs.net/content/PSITuning.aspx

 

[Romeoisgraham]

I done mine myself............The only hard part was removing my standard shock absorber.