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Bilstein Struts w/ Hor Springs - SHE AIN'T LOWERED!

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Joseph M Papp

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Oct 14, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/14/96
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Even though my .sig file states that my car has reworked suspension, it
took until this weekend for me to install it. Unfortunately, something
bzah has happened:

Bilstein HD struts and shocks mated to Hor lowering/sport springs
(purchased on sale from Autotech), for an '89 16V Jetta GLI.

The rear of the car is lowered one inch, BUT the front ride height did not
change at all from stock! This is really weird, and I cannot find any
fault in my installation procedure that would have caused this. I can't
imagine that the Bilsteins are too stiff.

(BTW: the stock suspension components were so blown. Yuk.)

Please e-mail any suggestions. THanks.

Joe

Joseph Michael Papp
United States Cycling Team

1989 VW Jetta GLI, 16V w/ 125,000 miles
HOR and Bilstein Suspension, Neuspeed upper-strut tie bar, Autotech
exhaust, and cool 'munchen' badge on the back!

jmps...@pitt.edu
412/383-1647
412/835-8992
5887 Keystone Drive
Bethel Park, PA 15102-3359
USA


MIKE PYSKA

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Oct 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/22/96
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I don't know if it the gas pressure or what, but I have found that
new struts will raise the car (think of what happened when you clipped
the shipping wire). That force has to go someplace.

You could ask Bilstein, but they will tell you you should not have u
springs with the HD's.

- Mike
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Darryl Clark

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Oct 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/22/96
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I have Bilsteins with Hor springs and the combo is great.The
car is as low as the day I did it.Suspension Techniques slowly
sagged to the point where there was virtually no travel! I have
put about 60k miles on these springs.


Joseph M Papp

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Oct 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/22/96
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Ok group, still no new front springs from Autotech to hopefully correct
the problem of my 89 GLI being 1.5" higher in the front after I installed
4 Bilstein HD's and a set of 4 HOR lowering springs.

Randy Walters

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Oct 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/23/96
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jmps...@pitt.edu (Joseph M Papp) wrote:

>>Ok group, still no new front springs from Autotech to hopefully correct
>>the problem of my 89 GLI being 1.5" higher in the front after I installed
>>4 Bilstein HD's and a set of 4 HOR lowering springs.
>>Joe

Maybe you installed the springs upside down ? :-)


Seriously, when i removed my old European factory springs
and replaced them with Neuspeed Race Springs on my
85 GTi, the car got about an inch higher in front !!
I wound up cutting up to 3/4 coil from the bottom of em
before the car sat lower than with the Euro springs.
Is it now sitting higher than stock ?

If the Bilsteins raised the car at all it would still be less
than 1/4", so it's got to be the springs causing the height.
Let us know what happens, that's really weird !

Randy
85 GTi
86 GLi



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