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Parts, which makes good and which bad?

  • 25-04-2016 2:52pm
    #1
    my3cents
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    I need some rear springs for my wifes car which has just failed the NCT on a broken spring (checked a week ago and it was fine :o) and I suppose I should do the shocks while I'm at it.

    So I have the choce of FAI or Kilen springs and Optimal, Meye, KYB, Boge and Sachs shocks. How do you choose are some makes known good and others less so? More importantly which are the better ones?


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  • #2
    biko
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    What car is it for, model/year?
    Look up Bilstein
    Remember to replace shocks in pairs


  • #3
    my3cents
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    FORD FOCUS 1.4 16V


  • #4
    SpannerMonkey
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    id consider Sachs the best of those


  • #5
    Agricola
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    SpannerMonkey wrote: »
    id consider Sachs the best of those

    Concur!


  • #6
    my3cents
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    SpannerMonkey wrote: »
    id consider Sachs the best of those

    So Sachs shocks it is, which springs? I've never heard of either Kilen or FAI?


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  • #7
    SpannerMonkey
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    dont know to be honest, ive heard of FAI but know nothing about them never heard of kilen


  • #8
    my3cents
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    SpannerMonkey wrote: »
    dont know to be honest, ive heard of FAI but know nothing about them never heard of kilen

    I'll take pot luck. Only names in shocks I'd have know would have been Sachs and Boge.


  • #9
    SpannerMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    sachs definately make springs for the focus can he not order them for you ?

    not necessarily for your car but these are for a 1.4 focus http://www.mister-auto.ie/en/coil-spring/sachs-998-120_g188_a032998!120.html
    ud want to check that they suit etc i dont know the year of yours


  • #10
    my3cents
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    I was avoiding mister auto as I had had some parts take ages to arrive, that was way back but seems from another thread people are still having those problems.


  • #11
    SpannerMonkey
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    can your local motor factors not get them ? i was more so just showing that they can be got . if they can supply shocks surely they can supply the matching springs?


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