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Buying new springs and dampers
« on: November 19, 2012, 09:58:58 am »
Looking to order a set of new springs and dampers in the next few weeks as mines are past their best I think..

I currently have Volkswagen racing springs on stock dampers along with other VWR handling mods.

The 2 options I've came up with are,

Buy a full Bilstein B12 kit which has sportlines

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Buy the Bilstein B8 dampers alone & fit my current VWR springs. The springs have done around 40K iirc....

Does fitting older springs onto new dampers have any negatives and apart from the B12/8 kit does anyone have any alternatives for similar money.

Car is used daily, don't want something too crashy and harsh. It's a DSG
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Re: Buying new springs and dampers
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2012, 06:57:52 pm »
B12 kit is awesome, new b8 dampers will also be a nice upgrade.

Price up both options as buying separate dampers isn't always more economical, especially when you include the resale value of your vow racing springs.
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Re: Buying new springs and dampers
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2012, 07:33:44 pm »
B12 is £655 & B8 is £500 so around £155 difference in price.

Doubt I'd get 150 for used VWR springs? Makes more sense for me to buy the B8 dampers & fit my current VWR springs to basically make a B12 kit albeit with VWR springs instead of Eibach?
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