Koni Coil-Over Kit

By: Phong    Email:  leozap@usa.net    (Nov-01)

Make & model of car the product was used on: 1998 A4 2.8QMS

The were a lot of mix options out there about Coil-Over kits. H&R, KW, Koni, Vortrag coil-over, they seem to be the talk on the audiworld forums. However, when a question post about these suspension systems, each people give a different answer, even on the same coil-over kit. I have not ride on any of these suspension kit, so it really hard choice for me to spend 2k on the suspension kits the I never ride on. Koni Coil-Over kit was chose due to the fact it cost only $900, plus I can adjust the rebound of it before I put it in. I am not saying that other suspension can not do the same. However for the money, it hard to beat.

My car had sport suspension when I got it, however, when I put in 17" wheel it didn't look right at all, even with a sport package, the car look so high off from the wheels that when you look at it from the distance you would think that is a 15" wheel. When I had this install and lover 1.7" front 1.5 rear, now the wheels look huge, some people already start asking me if it was 19" or 20".

My first impression with this kits, they ride almost like the sport suspension I had, accept you can few a little more bump. The body roll still there, however compare to the sport suspension, it is reduce about 70% of the body roll,  the road holding also increase when I make a hard turn, so far I have not feel my tire skip like the sport suspension. The only thing I regret is not adjust the rebound when I put it in, I will wait for it to settle in and will take off and redo the rebound. Over all I am happy with it, not only I can adjust the height and the
rebound, but for few hundred more you can have the adjustable suspension kits compare to none of the adjustable ones.

  

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