My car dropped on AP coilies!!

[Ultra_Joel88]

Lol that's what we mean all along.

Did you get a nut on the REAR SHOCK?

 

[Gooner_Mike]

Looks good buddy. Same colour and model as mine! Lowering to come for me in the near future... amongst other things.

 

[basssound]

Lol that's what we mean all along.

Did you get a nut on the REAR SHOCK?

No nuts, you use the old ones lol!!

 

[NickLCR]

Thats ok then

Did you need anything extra to put these on? Or re-use anything that was on the old?

 

[Ultra_Joel88]

You need new front top mounts and bearings I think, just to be safe.

Oh and lots of GREASE to stop the bad boys rusting.

 

[NickLCR]

I'm going to reuse mine, as my car is only a 57 plate. They should be ok for a while yet

 

[basssound]

New baerings and mounts for me.
As for grease, they're galvenised, grease should be required really, I think.

 

[Ultra_Joel88]

When I rang Awesome they said just wack some grease on to protect the threads, and then once a year take the wheels off sponge them down and re-apply the grease.

 

[wazb]

looks great, was also thinging about fitting my self instead of forking out £180 odd quid, dont you have to sort out all the allignment and tracking? or have you done that youself?

 

[basssound]

Need to sort that myself with a laserline company.
Only thing that does bother me is the camber, by the loks of the setup, the camber cannot be altered!!!

 

[nam]

i shoud have my ones of these this week! cant wait, your sits nice there mate plus it will settle lower as well

 

[NickLCR]

Out of interest, how long did it take you to fit them?

 

[basssound]

Out of interest, how long did it take you to fit them?

A little under 3 hours, faffed about with the ns one till I dropped the drive shafts off the gearbox, after that the os coilover (harder one) was done in 30mins, wasted a bit of time also on building up the fronts before fitting them.

If I was to do it again, i'd say 3 hours to take it steady and i'd charge £120.

 

[wazb]

ive been quoted £150 to fit them from topgear hayes, but they dont offer wheel allignment neither do they sort out the tracking, how much does it cost to get that done?, also didnt know you needed new bearings and mounts is this essential? ive got a 1.2 ibiza 52 plate so fairly old. Also i rand up wheels-inmotion.co.uk they quoted £180 to fit + all the suspension adjustments, they said the adjustments would depend of if the kit was camber adjustable? any idead if it is?

 

[deadeyejim]

AMD charged me £116 including new top mounts, and bearings and full wheel alignment.

 

[wazb]

thats cheap, have they got a website or number? also where are they based? (found them)

 

[deadeyejim]

Sorry I should have mentioned I also purchased my AP's from AMD. Total price was £465 including fitting and VAT.

 

[wazb]

still its a very good price!, how longs did it take for them to do?

 

[NickLCR]

Well me and Mr_Dave tried fitting them tonight, and we just couldn't do it!! We got the strut about 50% out of the hub, but then that was it, no more!

 

[basssound]

Did you take the drive shafts out, if not then the hub wont drop enough for the struts to come out, they won't even come out of the hubs!!!