Adjustable rear arms
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Adjustable rear arms
Hi, I am intending to fit coilovers to my mk4 escort, and was wondering what advantages the adjustable rear tubular arms give over standard, and are they worth the additional outlay. I have seen them fitted but after searching I am unable to find somewhere that sells them, do area six do them? Thanks in advance.
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MEF Motorsport do a full rose jointed link setup.
The provide adjust ability to allow you to correct the suspension angles and set the car up how you desire, I run the ones from MEF
I would not run them on a daily driven road car however.
The provide adjust ability to allow you to correct the suspension angles and set the car up how you desire, I run the ones from MEF
I would not run them on a daily driven road car however.
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Total control over camber, toe, and linked with adjustable trailing arms also the caster settings.
Solid mounted (no rubber bushes) gives a more positive control on handling and can either transform a car or totally ruin it and make it unsafe if you dont know what your doing.
Worth it on the road ? I'd say no.
Worth it on track ? I'd say if you know what they do then yes.
Expensive to run ? Well with upwards of 10 or so rose joints at (for decent ones) £40 per time they wont last forever and WILL need replacing as time goes by.
(So thats £400 or so every so often to keep them tip top)
Don't experiment with cheaper joints, they WILL fail, they WILL need replacing more often, they WILL make your car handle like crap when they collapse and in the long run they WILL cost you more money.
Experienced and qualified to answer for myself - through both trial and error in and out of competition on products like this. Not because I have read it on a forum and quote "I believe" or "I have heard" story's that most of the time are bull.
I run them, and wouldn't go back at any cost.
HTH
Solid mounted (no rubber bushes) gives a more positive control on handling and can either transform a car or totally ruin it and make it unsafe if you dont know what your doing.
Worth it on the road ? I'd say no.
Worth it on track ? I'd say if you know what they do then yes.
Expensive to run ? Well with upwards of 10 or so rose joints at (for decent ones) £40 per time they wont last forever and WILL need replacing as time goes by.
(So thats £400 or so every so often to keep them tip top)
Don't experiment with cheaper joints, they WILL fail, they WILL need replacing more often, they WILL make your car handle like crap when they collapse and in the long run they WILL cost you more money.
Experienced and qualified to answer for myself - through both trial and error in and out of competition on products like this. Not because I have read it on a forum and quote "I believe" or "I have heard" story's that most of the time are bull.
I run them, and wouldn't go back at any cost.
HTH
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Total control over camber, toe, and linked with adjustable trailing arms also the caster settings.
Solid mounted (no rubber bushes) gives a more positive control on handling and can either transform a car or totally ruin it and make it unsafe if you dont know what your doing.
Worth it on the road ? I'd say no.
Worth it on track ? I'd say if you know what they do then yes.
Expensive to run ? Well with upwards of 10 or so rose joints at (for decent ones) £40 per time they wont last forever and WILL need replacing as time goes by.
(So thats £400 or so every so often to keep them tip top)
Don't experiment with cheaper joints, they WILL fail, they WILL need replacing more often, they WILL make your car handle like crap when they collapse and in the long run they WILL cost you more money.
Experienced and qualified to answer for myself - through both trial and error in and out of competition on products like this. Not because I have read it on a forum and quote "I believe" or "I have heard" story's that most of the time are bull.
I run them, and wouldn't go back at any cost.
HTH
Solid mounted (no rubber bushes) gives a more positive control on handling and can either transform a car or totally ruin it and make it unsafe if you dont know what your doing.
Worth it on the road ? I'd say no.
Worth it on track ? I'd say if you know what they do then yes.
Expensive to run ? Well with upwards of 10 or so rose joints at (for decent ones) £40 per time they wont last forever and WILL need replacing as time goes by.
(So thats £400 or so every so often to keep them tip top)
Don't experiment with cheaper joints, they WILL fail, they WILL need replacing more often, they WILL make your car handle like crap when they collapse and in the long run they WILL cost you more money.
Experienced and qualified to answer for myself - through both trial and error in and out of competition on products like this. Not because I have read it on a forum and quote "I believe" or "I have heard" story's that most of the time are bull.
I run them, and wouldn't go back at any cost.
HTH
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Total control over camber, toe, and linked with adjustable trailing arms also the caster settings.
Solid mounted (no rubber bushes) gives a more positive control on handling and can either transform a car or totally ruin it and make it unsafe if you dont know what your doing.
Worth it on the road ? I'd say no.
Worth it on track ? I'd say if you know what they do then yes.
Expensive to run ? Well with upwards of 10 or so rose joints at (for decent ones) £40 per time they wont last forever and WILL need replacing as time goes by.
(So thats £400 or so every so often to keep them tip top)
Don't experiment with cheaper joints, they WILL fail, they WILL need replacing more often, they WILL make your car handle like crap when they collapse and in the long run they WILL cost you more money.
Experienced and qualified to answer for myself - through both trial and error in and out of competition on products like this. Not because I have read it on a forum and quote "I believe" or "I have heard" story's that most of the time are bull.
I run them, and wouldn't go back at any cost.
HTH
Solid mounted (no rubber bushes) gives a more positive control on handling and can either transform a car or totally ruin it and make it unsafe if you dont know what your doing.
Worth it on the road ? I'd say no.
Worth it on track ? I'd say if you know what they do then yes.
Expensive to run ? Well with upwards of 10 or so rose joints at (for decent ones) £40 per time they wont last forever and WILL need replacing as time goes by.
(So thats £400 or so every so often to keep them tip top)
Don't experiment with cheaper joints, they WILL fail, they WILL need replacing more often, they WILL make your car handle like crap when they collapse and in the long run they WILL cost you more money.
Experienced and qualified to answer for myself - through both trial and error in and out of competition on products like this. Not because I have read it on a forum and quote "I believe" or "I have heard" story's that most of the time are bull.
I run them, and wouldn't go back at any cost.
HTH
I would imagine I could get a healthy discount on Rose joints from you guys as you use pics of my car on your website?
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