was fancyin a set of coilovers for my escos , was wonderin what people would reccomend , GAZ and AVO seem to be reasonably priced , but i was wonderin if anyone could enlighten me as to how they perform??

any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!!

cheeRS , dug.

 

There have been numerous discussions regarding this topic. I’ve got AVO coilovers on my Escort Cossie at the moment, and they are very noisy. It all depends on what you want from the handling of your car. I’m in the process of changing mine to Koni and Ahmed Bayjoo lowered springs, as I use my car everyday, and the AVO’s are becoming to uncomfortable.

 

i have just bought AVO and my prob is so far is the front two splines are very long and if i shut my bonnet ithink they gona put two dinks in my bonnet has any one else had this prob as ican figure it out

but other then that i have driven it yet???there not to bad but iwish i bought some bilstiens as i used these before and there very good??thats mine appinion though hope this helps

 

Your bonnet should close without any problems. Mine did.

 

have you got the lay out of the top iwas thinking if i need a bigger doughnut in there????any tips pls

 

Got Gaz on mine, no probs whatsoever.

 

I've got H&R coilovers on the front and H&R springs and yellow Konis on the rear, works well

 

I didn't fit these coilovers to my car, so not sure what was done. But here is a picture of what it looks like on the car.

 

Got Avo's on mine

 

so whats the general verdict on em then rolls??

is the ride too harsh for general road use? or does the superior handling outweigh the ride quality problems?

 

Well' i've only had the car for 5 days, so can't give you the big picture so-to speak.....
But, i would say that the ride is firm, without being too unforgiving...
Really would depend on how bumpy the roads are near you IMO- round here they are not too bad, but if the roads are crap, then i would be inclinded to go for something a little more forgiving...

 

Rolls,
If you bought Paul Eggleton's car (which is what it looks like to me ), you don't have normal off-the-shelf spec AVO springs .

 

Interesting - and yes its pauls car - fancy emailing the spec of the springs by chance pls? - i can write it on the reciept (if its not already on there???)

Cheers

 

running LEDA on mine and it spot on

 

mine ar at least an inch or so higher then those can figure out the prob will put picture up tomoz and see what you lot think???thanks agin though!!