Installing aftermarket springs.

[LunchboxVRS]

No bolts at the rear they will compress out and back in without undoing anything.

The cap just pulls of. Underneath is a nut and you will see a where the Allen key needs to go in the top of the strut. The trick is undo IMG the nut while holding the centre with a Allen key. That's why you need a tool that has a hole in the centre like the one I made or the genuine tool.

[gavs]

You need ot pull the strut out mate otherwise you are going to lose a lot of finger bark trying to get a compressed spring over the strut when it's still in there!

There is a really easy way of pulling out the struts, so long as the thread pitch is the same as on the mk4 golfs....

[nomadx38]

Hey this question goes out to all the guys who have actually installed H&R lowering springs.

On the spring there are 2 parts - the large coil winding (up to about half way) and then the many smaller windings. Which type of winding faces where? So does the many coil widing part part sit in the bottom or top of the holder?

[LunchboxVRS]

Put them in so the writing is the right way up. I think they only go one way anyway, which you will see when you pull the old ones out.

[nomadx38]

Sorry I really need more clarification than that. I have looked at both the H&R springs and the OEM and they can go in both ways (I even tried it). This doesn't effect the OEM springs becuase they have the same amount of coils throughout the whole length but the H&R have two types of compression so technically it only goes one way. I only ask becuase I have put them in (with the writing facing upright so you can read it) and this leaves the close coils up the top compleatly compressed (and thus doing nothing) and the wide coils at the bottom on a slant.

Just doesn't look right...but this my first time doing this kind of thing.

[LunchboxVRS]

I don't have that issue on mine.there close but not touching and there not slanted.

[LunchboxVRS]

Sorry I really need more clarification than that. I have looked at both the H&R springs and the OEM and they can go in both ways (I even tried it). This doesn't effect the OEM springs becuase they have the same amount of coils throughout the whole length but the H&R have two types of compression so technically it only goes one way. I only ask becuase I have put them in (with the writing facing upright so you can read it) and this leaves the close coils up the top compleatly compressed (and thus doing nothing) and the wide coils at the bottom on a slant.

Just doesn't look right...but this my first time doing this kind of thing.

Just found this. It has a bit on dead coils or inactive coils. So you should be fine.


http://www.hrsprings.com/ee_technica...nical_info.pdf

[Pies]

What have people payed for installation of H&R springs and a wheel alligment, been quoted around the $600 mark? thoughts?
Cheers

[LunchboxVRS]

Is that $600 including the price of springs or just $600 labour. If its just labour that's a bit steep
I doesn't need a wheel alignment after installing the springs. So if there charging for that I'd tell them you don't want or go elsewhere.

[Pies]

Have the springs already, so $600 is just for labour + wheel allignment.