The amount of people on here who have had multiple sets of coilovers because they bought cheap the first time. But nice or buy twice.
Any one who puts a £180 coilovers on an expensive high quality hot hatch isn't someone id take advice from!
Then don't take my advice.
As I said mate I have driven on many kinds of suspension and let me tell you they are "good" - Very good for the price, almost a Bargain, and as mentioned come with a 2 year warranty. Visually as new they are almost identical to the AP. As you might have noticed I am not one to hang about (not so much in my GTI but in my old TDI that was a little race car and it was treated as such)
I have not found a SINGLE PERSON in 3 years who have put JOMs on a Mk5 and said "they're crap". Can you link to any of these people you speak of?
I hear the occasional drop link failure, of which I documented -http://uk-mkivs.net/topic/55809-public-service-announcement-jom-coilovers-knocking-not-terminal/page-7#entry1878978 - so I do not recommend running these with uprated ARBs, however for a decent honest coilover there's no issues with them and certainly do not deserve the snob factor that some people give!