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YOUR RESEARCHEibach rear springs, no preload? '99 C2
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We fitted Eibach springs to the rear of my mates on to Koni active dampers and the spring had a tiny bit of preloaded, just enough that they weren't loose.
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I haven’t got it back on its wheels yet, but one of my reasons for changing springs is that the car has a reverse rake, which isn’t cool lol
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We fitted Eibach springs to the rear of my mates on to Koni active dampers and the spring had a tiny bit of preloaded, just enough that they weren't loose.
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Hi all, fitting Eibach springs at the weekend and the rear springs have no preload, in fact they are loose, probably not enough to jump out at full drop, but almost. Has anyone else came across this issue?
I didn’t have that problem when I fitted to my M030 shocks on my C2 although the car was too low at the rear and I needed to have 17mm perch spacers made to get the ride height I required.
I imagine the M030 dampers would be shorter than my standard ones, possibly the springs were designed with those in mind. I haven’t got it back on its wheels yet, but one of my reasons for changing springs is that the car has a reverse rake, which isn’t cool lol
We fitted Eibach springs to the rear of my mates on to Koni active dampers and the spring had a tiny bit of preloaded, just enough that they weren't loose. With the eibachs the car was very low especially at the front, he changed them for vogtland springs and now it sits like a gt3.
Think you can get different thickness rubber springs seats which may be why my mates were not loose?
I seen there is 2 spring 'compensators' one is 0.5 and one is 4 mm, not sure if 3.5mm is enough. Sounds like they may be too low anyway, will it onto its wheels and go from there. Good thing is that it would be quite easy to make rear spring spacers if needs be.
Yes it's easy to make a spacer for the rear. It'll be interesting to see if you find the front too low like my mate did, that was the reason he changed to vogtland springs as we couldn't think of a way to space the front up!
Yes, I am interested to see myself, will report back.
Yes that's true, but when you buy a spring kit you shouldn't have to buy helper springs to make them fit properly.
Are they new springs?
Definitely the correct part number for your car, ie manual, rwd, coupe etc. ?
Any photos of them on the damper so we can see the gap?
Just an update, the spring gap was about 10mm, however when installed and all arms tightened at ride height the spring is not loose at droop. So I am happy.
