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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 10:40 AM
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went to adjust my konis last night on my saff , done the fronts ok on the top mount but where is the adjustment for the rears???.....only had a quick look last night in the dark and couldnt see it
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 10:42 AM
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You have to take them off the car to do them m8.
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 10:43 AM
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ok mate cheers...once off how do you do it
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 11:38 AM
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compress them in a vice and turn clockwise turn it 180 degress for the first setting. 360 for the middle setting and 720 for full hard.
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 11:49 AM
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what settings do you lot generally go for?
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 12:08 PM
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mine are full soft still but planning to take them off and use the middle setting probs
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 05:57 PM
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If you're going to go the effort of either dropping the rear end off the car or removing the shocks, then set them to the max hard setting to save all the dicking around in the future when they soften up.
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Old Jan 23, 2006 | 10:34 PM
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If you're going to go the effort of either dropping the rear end off the car or removing the shocks, then set them to the max hard setting to save all the dicking around in the future when they soften up.
full hard might make it a bit tail happy in the wet tho??
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Old Jan 24, 2006 | 12:24 PM
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If you're going to go the effort of either dropping the rear end off the car or removing the shocks, then set them to the max hard setting to save all the dicking around in the future when they soften up.
full hard might make it a bit tail happy in the wet tho??
its already tail happy in the wet
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Old Jan 25, 2006 | 06:01 AM
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my rears are set to soft and its tail happy in the wet to lol.... setting it to hard when i take the back end out so that as well as poly bushes should give me some fun
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