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Old Jan 19, 2011 | 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by carlfiesta999
fiddy theres somewhere i found through google that does them £350 a set but theyre made to order. genuine morettes. yh my suspension was so shagged on my 1.8 lx that when i reversed into a space and then drove out again i ripped the rear bumper off! that was a standard car, standard suspension, on 14 inch steelies lol
there is a place that does morette spares aswel, but by the time you have bought all the parts to build a set, your looking at the neck end of £600. i was lucky with mine, i got them just under a year ago, brand spanking new, for £250, but that was after searching for a set for months, and asking everyone on the mondeo scene to look for a set. in the end, the guy i use for my spares, who breaks V6 mondeo's for a living found me a set. they still had the date of manufacture stickers on them, october 1997, and i got them in february 2010, so they had been sat somewhere, brand spanking new, for the neck end of 13 year, so i was lucky to get them.

as for lowering, pay a garage to do it, it will snap at least one hub bolt, and unless you have the rite drill and bits, drilling the fucker out will be a nightmare. i genuinely wouldnt recommend anyone lower a MK2 mondeo, unless you have a ramp, air tools, and heat. i know a guy who had his own garage, so had all the gear, did a lot of work on cars off the mondeo forums, and had an ST24 himself. he said on average, with all the rite tools, you were looking at a good three to four hours to change the springs, because 99.9% of the time, the pinch bolts snap. so he started heat them up before removing them, as when he didnt, they would snap, and he would spend most of his time drilling the fuckers out.

im sure glenn who posted above, will be along to tell you the fun of lowering mine. 7 hours, two burnt out drills, loads of snapped drill bits, cuts, bruises, and a lot of swearing
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