front shocks - koni's, spax or bilsteins?

hot66 · #1 July 11th 2003, 04:12

thinking about buying some front shocks to suit a beam front suspension, slightly lowered & dropped spindles.

koni's

spax

bilsteins

lightning bug · #2 July 11th 2003, 04:26

I voted Koni b/c I've had good luck with them. Bilsteins adjust themselves though and are bombproof. Either one, you'll be fine. Spax... Yuk.

MattKab · #3 July 11th 2003, 15:38

http://www.koni-na.com/cars.html

hot66 · #4 July 11th 2003, 17:07

matt, you running Koni reds then? I'm very interested in peoples opinions of the shocks they are using

Alex · #5 July 11th 2003, 22:43

I voted Koni. The Bilsteins are as good or even better shocks....but they have a problem:

They actually push up the car and it will not look as low anymore.
When you compress a Bilstein the shock comes back up. The Koni does not.

So when the car is not moving you will find that it is not as low as when you are driving. My friend had the problem in the 90s with his fronts and I had the same problem with my New Beetle.

Alex

**petevw** · #6 July 12th 2003, 05:05

how about KYB's?

MattKab · #7 July 12th 2003, 09:19

Quote:

Originally posted by hot66
matt, you running Koni reds then?

Yellows mate, front and back. 'Can't fault them, except tweaking the front is a bit of a ball-ache.

This video clip is good:

http://www.koni-na.com/images/int_subbutshockvidov.gif

Matt

hot66 · #8 July 14th 2003, 11:03

koni reds it is then

zen · #9 July 16th 2003, 21:05

i need to make this same call soon. where are you buying hot66?

hot66 · #10 July 17th 2003, 18:04

prob a place in the UK near manchester, can't remember the name though

View Poll Results: which front shocks?
koni reds	8	53.33%
spax	1	6.67%
bilsteins	5	33.33%
others	1	6.67%
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