yea you have, you just done it all sooner than i did mine

danny, question ive been meaning to ask, do you have adjustable lower arms? if not, how the fuck are your tyres still alive?

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He doesn't he's been meaning to make some and some for me

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lmao ahhh i see! when he does get round to it, put me on the list too

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Loved the caliper colour mate, reminds me to repaint my calipers as they are a state lol

As Chris said, I dont. I dont know how they are still alive, but they are and they have lots of life in them Magic I guess lol.

Yeah ill be making some soonish - when i can be arsed

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ha, well get a thread up on it when you do! might blag it and just whack my coilies on. fucking bored of being so high!

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I will do. Might do it next month at some point. Yeah stick them on! Its about bloody time you did, then you can have it nice and low

Whats wrong with them? Or are they all sorted now?

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If you do let me know, i'll get two sent to you and then i'll get a polybush set the month after and we can have some "fun"

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Because the lower arms end up costing like £250 and I didnt know what those things did or their advantages

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Basically they have no play at all and will generally never wear compared to poly or rubber bushes. Of course poly bushes are good and have a very good wear rate and lifetime but spherical bearings are the way forward if you have the cash to splash

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why would you want to use rose joins on the roads?

have you not got a spine?

I think the benefits wouldn't outway the cost due to the fact I won't own the car long enough for the polys to wear out I bet let alone for these ones, for the extra cost I could probably go through two full sets of polys around the whole car and still have £50 change If the prices are still what they were.

either way i'm getting some lower arms sent to you for cambering that or i'll stick a washer in the top to cancel it out VDub styleeee!

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ive got rose jointed area sixwishbones on my si jon i still have a spine and to be honest the ride isnt hat bad but they a tad rattley but thats normal and my word does it handle

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Rip Ben Elvin (jam)

tbh i found poly top mount bushes to be the worst thing for the bumpiness

But until you get a decent suspension setup you will always have a bone breaking ride. My avo coilovers are infact VERY smooth. When we went to the camp site at ford fair, we all went to the pub and i took my mate Kris out in my car, he said 'is this really on coilovers?' i said yeah why? his reply was 'you would never know, its so smooth and it handles so well too'

On the other hand, my spax shocks and springs - you could feel literally every bump in the road.

Rose jointed lower arms wont affect the smoothness of the ride that much, it would affect the cornering of the car.

All depends what you want out of a car though

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well i need a new bearing, cang imagine that will be much, ermmm the threads on the front ones need sorting too. will email avo to ask how much they are to be serviced!

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When I emailed Paul @ AVO, he said to me to have my two rear dampers rebuilt it would be £15+ VAT per side, so £36. I dont imagine the fronts would be much more. But saying that, all depends how badly the thread is, can you not wind on the height adjuster on and sort the threads out? Because the threads are generally softer than the adjuster itself so you can usually wind it on/off to sort them out, might need a C spanner or a big ass pair of grips to do it though. I've done many coilovers units which are damaged like that and they have been fine

I will be sending my units to AVO soon to get them rebuilt - the only reason it needs doing is because the adjustment knob/screw on one broke off and the other seems to not adjust properly now... thats what you get for putting them on the wrong way (screw/knob needs to be facing forwards, not back).

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yeah i put them on backwards when i fitted them, but it was easier to adjust? ha, ermmm its not the thread where you adjust the coilovers, they were fucked but i had a minute file and did each one (major pain) its the thread where you attach it to the top mount!?

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