Got them now and must say lookin good,since the group buy
have been checking prices in various car mags and internet
and am now convinced we had a bargain everybody seems to want this
amount second hand,just gotta find someone to fit them so should be........................2004 noin my luck
cheers mouse

 

not received mine yet

sounds like i am getting paranoid it`s just that everything that gets posted to me allways ends up a disaster

so please not this deal

 

keep me posted, was told remained would go out monday.

I have ****ty luck with parcels too, I usually end up getting them from the depot for some stupid reason, I have heard all the excuses in the book!

Paul

 

Just to wet your appetite..




Once again, thanks very much Paul, hope yours and the others arrive soon.

Ps Top tip for ordering stuff, is get it delivered to work if you can.

 

lol at p20 show them a picture
cheers mouse

 

My father has the worlds biggest stirring spoon

Guess thats where i get it from.

No others arrived yet?

 

Nobody else got theirs other than me and M18use

 

mine are sat in the bedroom gathering dust
oh well its nice to have them

 

mine are in the garage gathering dust, oh well

 

Just do it.

you know it makes sense.

You will need

1/2" drive 19mm socket
long breaker bar
19mm ring spanner
wd40
hacksaw (to slot the brake line holder on strut)
10mm socket for top mount
17mm socket for topmount/spring cup nut.

If you can jack and axle stand one end at a time, probably take you 4 hours to do the lot, could be quicker if you have no rusted nuts etc.

I did mine a while ago myself (no help) and was much easier with 2foot breaker bar.

Once ride height is sorted, test drive, then get the lot aligned.

Paul

 

Mine arrived Tuesday.

Pavlo - Any recommendations for initial ride height settings?

Matthew

 

NO idea.

Best thing to do to set, is put all 4 courners on, roll/drive car forward and backwards a few feet to release any side tension in tyres and measure ride height. (check graham goode site for standard heights)

If you want to adjust, jack car* again move the spring collar about 3/4 of the amount you wish to adjust (due to leverage), and repeat the roll and measure.


Once happy, I personally would drive it a few miles to make sure, as you may wish to adjust again.

Get it aligned once you are happy, better (than standard) alignment brings benefits in handling as well.

*Jack under rear diff, and under plate just behind sump at front.

Paul

 

as everyone got theres now
cheers mouse

 

No me a and my Friend have not received ours yet.
But they were suppose to go out on Tuesday.
And I guess it will take about a week before they arrive here in Sweden.

/Kvarins

 

well mine is fitted

it took a lot of banging my head against the wall and a few phonecalls but it is done

not that i am an expert but two tips

1) from the centre of the wheel to the top of the wheel arch is 340mm

2)i will try to explain this but at the top of the strut were the 2 locking nuts tighten onto the existing top bitty (no idea what it is called but it is on top of the original strut and has to be taken off and fitted to the new one) you need to fit a large washer becouse the locking nuts dont tighten onto the top bitty but onto the end of the threads on the strut thus causing them to have around 1mm of slackand thus causing them to rattle

this did my head in but anyone fitting there own i hope this helps

oh by the way havn`t tested them but am surprised that they are not as uncomfortable as i thought they would be

[Edited by X SOOOBY - 9/9/2002 9:45:23 PM]

[Edited by X SOOOBY - 9/10/2002 7:55:04 AM]

 

mine are fitted look at the previous post

 

Okay, thanks Mark, do you have any photo's or something.

Either way email me with the details and I will make sure your experience is relayed to AVO.

Paul

 

Paul... you lazy git... Hacksawing the bracket... I dunno... what about just bleeding the brakes...

(I wish I had thought to cut the bracket )

David

 

Me and Patrick have fitted ours also now.
But one of my setting for one front shock was hard as hell
to adjust...had to use a spanner.
Impossible with the supplied adjuster...is that shock really ok ??
And I could see a small amount of oil on the bump adjustment..

Will check it after some driving...

/Jan

 

mine were ok so it dosn`t sound right especially as it is only one of them

even though they seem to work well i have to say i am disapointed with the quality of them

 

X scooby the porblem with the washer was that front or rear ???

/Jan

 

it was front and rear was told by avo that this must be unique to the my00 but i doubt that

you should be able to tell if when tightening the strut to the fixing plate there is movement of any kind then a washer is required i used a 16mm washer

 

<silly question>
What diameter or thickness??
<end silly question>

 

Now I can hear a rattling noise from the rear ..so I have probably the same problem as you had..and I have a MY99.

And I dint have before fitted the coilovers

 

they were engineering washers 16mm hole allthough 15mm would of done 20mm diameter i think up to 23mm would of been ok and app. 2.5 mm thickness

i tried car spares places but no good so got them from an engineering place

 

paul i have allready spoken to avo and told them of the problems that i encountered what i did to sort them

the only problem now is convincing her indoors that she will get used to the ride quality

[Edited by X SOOOBY - 9/16/2002 9:30:51 AM]

 

Yeah, sorry I haven't spoken to them.

It seems a few have had this problem, so I was thinking of persuading AVO to send out some replacement spacers.

I assume this is all because the spacers are too short, to the tune of about 1.5mm?

Paul

 

Paul..That sure would be nice, if you get AVO to do that.

Jan

 

paul just found out there are different spring rates for the springs you dont know what rates are for each end becouse i have a funny fealing you know wrong way round

i cant beleive it did not mention this in the kit

i suppose they think experts are going to be fitting them

but then experts need to know spring rates etc..

[Edited by X SOOOBY - 9/17/2002 8:52:10 AM]

 

X SCOOBY,

I imagine the harder springs will be on the front, you should be able to pick out the harder springs, as they will have thicker wire used for the coils, possibly have the coils on a bigger pitch.

These are the Issues that seem to be cropping up.

Spacers between top mounts and spring tops too short, nut bottoms on thread and doesn't tighten properly.

Damping adjustment can be stupid tight

No Spring/shock identificaion

I didn't see any brake hose brackets either.

I'll try and speak to AVO today.

Paul