Yep - have got the dreaded knocking on the rear of my 2003 Blobeye and they have been confirmed as probably the worst that the guy has heard!!!

Have been offered KYBs on the rear for around £400 all in by the same guy - which seems pretty reasonable to me.

Also have just seen the group buy for a full set of Apex coilovers for about £500 if it is still running.

As the title says - anybody running either of the above - what are your thoughts? Cash is tight, so EXE TCs or ASTs are not an option!! May also consider Teins or anything else for around or under £600.

Thanx

 

Apex matey, i've got these on mine and there a great peice of kit and a lot of people run these now.

The only other thing i will add is Kyb is what is already on your car, which put me off due to them failing on newage cars even after being replaced!

HTH

Aaron

 

Thanks for that - I didn't realise KYB are the standard fit dampers - so it stands to reason that they will probably fail again.

The Apex do look good value, particularly at the group buy price.

 

Does anyone know why they fail so much, it seems very common to me you would have thought scoob would have done something about it now!! how many miles did you get from the original shocks??????

 

Mine's a WRX, I put second hand Jap STi shocks on and they have probably done about 40K.
The guy who looked at them used to work for a dealer and he reckons they replaced around 500 units!!! Seems subaru are aware of the problem but never bothered with a re-call.
I think it's something to do with the angle the damper is fitted to the car that causes them to fail - loads of threads on here.

 

I think scoobyclinic do a £100 rebuild for the std dampers using a longer top plain bush (the bit that fails).

cheaper than £500

 

Also be aware that the kyb struts are valved different to the oem struts, guys on iwsti have fitted rear kyb struts and the handling has been very scary and rather dangerous!

 

Apex mate doddle to fit and you can set your ride height as you wish
Mines been on a year now, so much better

 

Ive got BC coilovers which i think are the same as the apex ones, i think they are top notch realy good handling and a great ride, with the bonus of being able to lower it right down great