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New rear spring

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domsz4
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New rear spring

Post by domsz4 » Mon May 22, 2017 10:33 am

Hi I found a broken spring when getting tyres.

If I remember right there was a little bit of a grey area on this so just wanted to check.
The 3lt cars came with the Mpsort suspension which was a bit lower than the SE and as I remember euro car parts get this wrong so often supply springs that are too long.

where is best to get a spring from?
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New rear spring

Post by kis » Mon May 22, 2017 1:01 pm

Mine are suplex. I know quite a few other people are running these too.
Or could just go whole hog and get Eibach and fit some spacers to bump it up to "M" height as I think 30mm drop is a bit excessive... but all down to mileage, road types, etc.
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Post by Rusky » Mon May 22, 2017 5:41 pm

I have a box of msport springs off mine. You are welcome to them if you can collect them. 👍
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New rear spring

Post by csquire4 » Mon May 22, 2017 6:42 pm

Yep, even on SE Sport springs were the standard on 3.0 but could be deleted at point of order.

You should really change both together. Like many forum members I went for Suplex 6231, exactly same height but just better made.

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