yea, so im cheap and i was like "what the hey, i want to lower my car" and have heard mixed results with"ebay" coilover sleeves so i forked out the 50 dollars or so and got them.i put them on in the summer with no negative results except for blowing out my stock shocks which i knew would happen(i already had tokico replacements sitting in the garage).yesterday i got tired of bouncing up and down like a trampoline and switched them out with my tokicos and looky what i found:
booya!!



yea so i learned the hard way but i got them off in time before any harm was done to my car or myself,and now i will invest in a nice set of name-brand coilover sleeves-the end

cliff notes:bought ebay *****,ebay ***** broke,learned my lesson.

 

yeah I bought some ebay coilovers too but this never happened to them. Mine would have probably have looked like that if I still had them on but I finally wised up and bought some Buddy Club N+ dampers and so far they are the best investment I have made

 

it breaks my heahahahahehaheaheahhhahehheart

ebay still isn't a manufacturer, the "name" would always be nice.

so when people come here and say "should i get jdmdropz coil overs on ebay for 50" they'll find this post.

 

That sucks, those springs dont even have a round top, they're just a straight cut, lol.

 

It look like who ever install it did incorrectly. The seelve is upside down.

 

dude i honestly dont remember the knockoff namebrand jdmmadtytecoiloversleevs? lol.i remember the sellers name but dont want to give him a bad rep,i got what i paid for,5 months of lowered abuse.i would suggest not buying any coilover sleeves for 50 dollars from ebay unless they are used skunk2 or something with some r&d.i posted these pics for the amusement of others and to warn against buying noname crap ,not for pity, i actually laughed when i saw the split coilover.

 

let me find the ones i bought and link it if i can..

http://cgi.ebay.com/92-93-94-9...wItem

not from this buyer but these same ones thin metal


Modified by 93cxhatchsir2 at 5:55 PM 1/14/2008

 

Not everything on ebay is garbage, just gotta know how to sort through the BS. However, that's not to say a ton of crap isn't floating around though.

Glad to see you wised up

 

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Lol Regina Spektor lyrics ehh?

 

I think it may have broken because the sleeve is upside down.

Either way, your better off with something more quality.

 

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Either way, your better off with something more quality.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

^^^times 10

 

have you ever heard the phrase "you get what you pay for"
I mean, what did you expect when you are trying to buy the cheapest thing possible.

 

I have purchased multiple sets for my track car......I used the different springs (rates) in conjunctoun with my Omni coilovers and yielded great results. Springs are springs. It is all in the shock.

 

reminds me of this time i was trapped in this swedish mining camp. all i had was a pack of gum, three quarters, a sock full of nickels, and a tube of ky. somehow i managed to escape, with a bum full of nickles, and a fresh stick of gum in my mouth.

zip ties and duck tapes all you need to fix those perches...and a dream son, all you need is a dream..

 

lmao You're the most sig worthy dude I've ever seen. Look at my sig, who's on there?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by instrument &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">reminds me of this time i was trapped in this swedish mining camp. all i had was a pack of gum, three quarters, a sock full of nickels, and a tube of ky. somehow i managed to escape, with a bum full of nickles, and a fresh stick of gum in my mouth.

zip ties and duck tapes all you need to fix those perches...and a dream son, all you need is a dream..</TD></TR></TABLE>

<FONT COLOR="red"><FONT SIZE="10">WAT?</FONT></FONT>

 

finally a good example of why not to buy coil overs. they are made cheaply and are dangerous.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by instrument &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">reminds me of this time i was trapped in this swedish mining camp. all i had was a pack of gum, three quarters, a sock full of nickels, and a tube of ky. somehow i managed to escape, with a bum full of nickles, and a fresh stick of gum in my mouth.

zip ties and duck tapes all you need to fix those perches...and a dream son, all you need is a dream..</TD></TR></TABLE>

LMAO

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by instrument &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">reminds me of this time i was trapped in this swedish mining camp. all i had was a pack of gum, three quarters, a sock full of nickels, and a tube of ky. somehow i managed to escape, with a bum full of nickles, and a fresh stick of gum in my mouth.

zip ties and duck tapes all you need to fix those perches...and a dream son, all you need is a dream..</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol

i think that i am going to take that for my sig.

 

i purchase sum $30 ebay coilover and i still be rolling on them for like 2 years now so you must be bad luck or i'm just lucky,but there is a lot of fake **** up in there though!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Dann6968 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I think it may have broken because the sleeve is upside down.

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yea the sleeve shouldnt be installed like that, imagine all the weight on those sleeve walls? thats why they split





Modified by actek23 at 5:39 PM 1/15/2008

 

Thread title should be changed to "Another reason to install coilovers properly"

 

 

if you said you lowered the car why are the springs sitting so high.
i had them too before, but my springs were maybe an inch raised giving very little room for sleeve to tear apart.