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I've been looking at kw v3 coilovers and Tein street flex coilovers. The reasons I was thinking tein was the camber adjustments in the front,and cheaper price. I was wondering

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Old 03-16-2014, 03:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I've been looking at kw v3 coilovers and Tein street flex coilovers. The reasons I was thinking tein was the camber adjustments in the front,and cheaper price. I was wondering if I could use just the front camber adjustments and just get rear camber arms? This would be a lot cheaper than getting the KW CO's with the front and rear camber arms, alignment, and corner balancing. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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For the front you will still need upper contol arms to adjust camber, I think.
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Save yourself the headaches and get a set of SPC camber/control arms for front and rear. I have the KWV3's and use the spc's. It's a great setup
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Save yourself the headaches and get a set of SPC camber/control arms for front and rear. I have the KWV3's and use the spc's. It's a great setup
So you're happy with the quality of the spc parts? And what about the KW's how are those as far as ride comfort? Is there a big difference from soft to a firm settings?
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So you're happy with the quality of the spc parts? And what about the KW's how are those as far as ride comfort? Is there a big difference from soft to a firm settings?
Please don't buy SPC!
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Please don't buy SPC!
I have had zero problems with my SPC. Not one. Alignment is still exactly as it was set. The only reason to go with SPL is if you're going to track the car. And, given that SPC is the most commonly used setup given that they make the Eibach camber kits as well, if they were that bad we would be hearing about failures all ther time, not just the handful we've seen posted.
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I have had zero problems with my SPC. Not one. Alignment is still exactly as it was set. The only reason to go with SPL is if you're going to track the car. And, given that SPC is the most commonly used setup given that they make the Eibach camber kits as well, if they were that bad we would be hearing about failures all ther time, not just the handful we've seen posted.
Well the front can slip and the rear snaps so ask yourself this, if 100 or 1 rear has snapped, is it worth $88 to put something like that on a almost $40,000 car?! Or spend $100 or so more for the insurance and get the best of the best?

I agree around town you might be ok. OEM doesn't have that bend in the middle and material wasn't weakened when they cut the threads into the SPC for the adjustment. And if youre ok around town, what happens when you go on a canyon run and are hot dogging around having fun? You want that cheap $88 part keeping you off the side of a mountain? I sure don't!!!

If you have SPC, spl will give you 25% off their arm if you trade yours in. If you have an older version of SPL, they will give you 50% off to upgrade to their new stuff!!

SPC, eibach, ischium or whatever are all the same crap from china. You decide!

More than one is to much for me!

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Well the front can slip and the rear snaps so ask yourself this, if 100 or 1 rear has snapped, is it worth $88 to put something like that on a almost $40,000 car?! Or spend $100 or so more for the insurance and get the best of the best?

I agree around town you might be ok. OEM doesn't have that bend in the middle and material wasn't weakened when they cut the threads into the SPC for the adjustment. And if youre ok around town, what happens when you go on a canyon run and are hot dogging around having fun? You want that cheap $88 part keeping you off the side of a mountain? I sure don't!!!

If you have SPC, spl will give you 25% off their arm if you trade yours in. If you have an older version of SPL, they will give you 50% off to upgrade to their new stuff!!

SPC, eibach, ischium or whatever are all the same thing from china. You decide!
Ok guy. They're just terrible. That's why they fail all the time. We've seen what, maybe five or so break out of how many sold? Let's not do the typical hyperbolic bs about how crappy they are when the only failures have been on track.
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If you have SPC, spl will give you 25% off their arm if you trade yours in. If you have an older version of SPL, they will give you 50% off to upgrade to their new stuff!!
thanks !

I didn't know SPL offered this. I will have to budget it before July !
I got a nice old SPC rusted one to change !! hehe
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So you're happy with the quality of the spc parts? And what about the KW's how are those as far as ride comfort? Is there a big difference from soft to a firm settings?
Yeah there's a noticeable difference. I run mine dialed in on medium, and I like it. Pretty stiff ride though, forget having a coffee or any other open beverage on the car. It WILL spill.

And my spc's have held up just fine. I'm at -4.5 or so camber now. Was at -4.8. Haven't had my car on the track but I push her through some serious abuse....
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-4.5? Why?
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The Teins street flex coils offer the camber adjustments in the front, and it says on the website that you can adjust from 0-3 I'm guessing positive camber. And positive is what I will need if I'm lowering it from an 1" to an 1 1/2" all around right? So I might not need the front camber arms?
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I run 20x10 and 20x12's with 4" and 6" dish respectively. Need all that camber to fit the wheels.

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Ah, makes sense.
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