Coilovers options

[Banksy]

I know exactly what to look for when it comes to Vw's but as for E30's not a clue, Cheapest I have seen is £529 this is quite pricey from what im used to!

I emailed hot tuning who said they are going to make E30 coilovers for £200ish mark but wont be available for 5-6 months, + these are crap anyway, but they give a hard slam

What coilovers do you lot use get really get low?

Cheers

[trimmer]

Around the £550 mark is as cheap as you'll find in my experience. I'd be very wary of £200 e30 coilovers, like you say, they will be crap.

The reason they're more expensive than say a VW coilover is because of the strut design of the e30. The stub axle/wheel hub assembly and the front strut are one piece, so these have to be sent away to whichever manufacturer, so they can weld your new coilover up onto your existing hubs.

Check out the traders section, RPM do a GAZ kit for around £550 which i've heard good things about.

Hope that helps!

[Banksy]

Oh so a driveway suspension change may be off the cards?

[ross_jsy]

Not really, you just need to take yours off, send them to gaz or who ever and they send you back the coilover. You then have to bolt it up .

[BadDave]

Oh so a driveway suspension change may be off the cards?

You could convert the fronts yourself(clubman spec)

[harry_p]

Oh so a driveway suspension change may be off the cards?

or buy a spare set of struts to send off to be made into coilovers, then just swap them over, and sell your struts on to someone else to do the same with.

to be fair to hottuning, the front coilovers i had on my compact were a pretty good fast road setup. obviously no where near as good as billies, h&r etc, but not terrible either.

[Nay]

or buy a spare set of struts to send off to be made into coilovers, then just swap them over, and sell your struts on to someone else to do the same with.

Or keep them to revert the car back to standard... sell the coilies separate to the car, along with other bits.