MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Black9 on November 19, 2012, 09:58:58 am
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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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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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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?