RE: Suspension....

[Kevin <aventari@cts.com>]

I have ST springs on my front end w/ KYB inserts and have had no problems.
Lowers the Mk1 a claimed .8".
 Pretty soft now, but it is 4 or 5 years old now. Man, where does all that
time go?!

At 08:59 PM 10/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>At 08:45 PM 10/26/98 +0000, Ryan Schuermann wrote:
>>just a note, one of mine cracked in half, I'd think twice about 
>>every buying ST springs, then again maybe other springs crack too, 
>>dunno.
>
>OTOH, a friend had a set on his 2002, they did'nt crack.  ST makes springs
>for virtually everything, I'd not worry too much about them breaking -
>every company has things fail, and with the sheer number of springs they
>make, they're more "likely" to have some failures.  I've not heard of many
>ST springs cracking, either.  I have heard bad things about Spax - lots of
>people have had problems with those, Tokico had a high failure rate a while
>back, EIP has had some bad things said about them, etc - onesy twosy
>failures, eh, bad things happen.  When the NG/lists fill up with horror
>stories about company X, well, maybe then it is time to look elsewhere(with
>a grain of salt, of course).
>
>My front Neuspeed swaybar broke an endlink - the heim joint sheared off
>when I tried to adjust it(I'm not _that_ strong!).  I don't think this is a
>common occurence, so I don't bother telling anyone about it.  The A3 Nspeed
>bars seem to break endlinks a lot, however.  We all know about Autotech's
>brackets.  Some things are known to break, others are not - I don't
>personally put ST springs in the "breaks-a-lot" category.  FWIW!
>
>
>I.Mannix
>
> 
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