so i was changing the axles on my brother's car and as i take off the tire i see this. when he bought the car they came with these coil-overs. just posting up so people know. cheap is no good. haha you get what you pay for.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by boostedej1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> you get what you pay for</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

Thats shitty.

Well...good enough reason to pick up some ground controls!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by boostedej1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> you get what you pay for.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Especially with suspension.

 

doesnt that rubber piece always **** up? no matter what brand you have...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Teawins21 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">doesnt that rubber piece always **** up? no matter what brand you have... </TD></TR></TABLE>



is that rubber or pieces of the threaded sleeve? im afraid to say its the threads of the lower part of the sleeve.... junk.

 

GC &gt; DZ

you always get what you pay for man...

 

thats the sleeve not rubber. yeah good thing i didnt pay for them.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by boostedej1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">thats the sleeve not rubber. </TD></TR></TABLE>





omfg.. that's crazy!!!!!!

 

Dont worry next week some jack *** is going to ask us if its ok to use those on a set of koni's. So we are going to link him this thread. After he reads this he is still going to come back and ask its it ok is he does X stupid sugestion. I think we should just let him get them. Thats really ******* crazy that the whole bottom of the sleeve just destroyed it self. Didnt he notice one side of his car droped like an inch?

 

yup my friend got his car, came with DZ shock. it was bent

 

"Dropzone=Quality"

Is it legal to use those two words that close together? I would think it would be like holding two similar polarity magnets together... they would just automatically, desperately push away from each other.

Please don't put them on a Koni circlip.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ohjolt2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Dont worry next week some jack *** is going to ask us if its ok to use those on a set of koni's. So we are going to link him this thread. After he reads this he is still going to come back and ask its it ok is he does X stupid sugestion. I think we should just let him get them. Thats really ******* crazy that the whole bottom of the sleeve just destroyed it self. Didnt he notice one side of his car droped like an inch?</TD></TR></TABLE>


no because the otherside was just as bad

 

i had DZ coils on AGXs on my car for over two years and never had a problem.

based on the ends of the torn threads, it appears as if the non "reinforced" end of the sleeve was installed down. one end has about 3mm of non-threaded material that is considerably stronger than the other end. seeing as this happened to both sides, i bet someone screwed up the install.

no doubt, dropzone is "junk", but i've never seen this happen before when properly installed.

threads all the way to the end of the sleeve



reinforced end on GCs. i'm confident my DZ coils had this "reinforced" non-threaded end as well. i don't think it was as long, though



Modified by DOHCDX at 1:13 PM 8/17/2005

 

some cheapo coilovers have a non-threaded section but i doubt that it is re-enforced.

 

Maybe its not the DZ's fault, it may be that the shock was bad and it kept bottoming out, and the weight of the car eventually cracked and split the sleeve. I've had skunks before, and now I have D2's, so i never really first hand experieced an ebay brand coilover

 

as i said before i didnt buy these nor install them. they came with the car. the person that did install it sure did **** stuff up. didnt put cotter pins where the castle nuts where. and left the lower ball joint loose . good thing i caught it when i did. **** was rusted stuck so we cut it off and banged it out and put a new one in there.

and also the shocks arent bad

 

A friend of mine has these on his hatch and he also has the DZ shocks to complete the mess.