coilovers - a little confused

[Golf Loon]

Your Strut Tops are rooted young man. THey are old and weak and are now destroyed by hard suspension.

You should always put new ones as part of the install.I think if you get em locally from Slammed Distribution, you can get em as part of the package!

We stock them as do lots of places. Common Part to fail.

When you take the coilovers out, lube em up and check their movement when they are out of the car. I`m sure you will find the strut tops the problem.

The rubber mounts have a rubber sheath with a metal insert to hold the bearing in place. Yours have forced the bearing through and jammed itself. This can impair movement of the strut.

Also worth noting that the measurement of the strut is not always accurate, cars sit unevenly for lots of reasons.

Change em and let us know how you get on.

Also I wouldnt get a wheel alignment like that, it wont work.

[Ben J]

Thanks matt. I have to admit i dogged slammed distribution and got them from belgium directly for like $200 less :S But yes that didnt include the mounts. The old ones looked fine when i tooked them out but it makes sence that the coilovers brought them too there end.

Looks like dubaddicition is out of the front mounts :/ I think read somewhere else the ones from you are more like $100?

[Jarred]

strut tops aren't cheap, but a nessecary item to replace, especially as our cars get on a bit.

Matt is 100% right, uprated suspension has caused what little life they had left to disappear!

also when checking heights, there are lots of factors. Are the tyre pressures the same? Were you on level ground? etc. they might seem like simple things, but it all comes into effect!

[Ben J]

Yea tyres are same and was on level ground, the camber had become quite negative on that wheel again, mustnt have tightened it up. The spring was touching the tyre, so anyway fixed that up and its still sitting the same height.

Anyway, it gave me a good excuse to buy a few things from gap. Have a set of new mounts on there way, along with a few other little things now

[rayray086]

Damn was too slow. I was looking to offload a set of heavy duty front strut mounts...

[Ben J]

Oh, stupid impulsive nature :/ Figured id order from gap quickly, as to hopefully get them before the wheel alignment is booked. Needed a few other little things too so just jumped at the chance

[Lorenz]

We pretty much always carry MK3 strut tops and bearings
Hope that sorts out your problem, cars looking great slammed!

[mk3pete]

i have a similar problem only the mounts and bearings are 2 months old is this possible???
ray il take those heavy duty ones off ya if they suit a vr6