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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 11:27 AM
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I just got coilovers on last friday and i notice that sometimes when i go over a bump they make noise is that normal or is there something wrong?
i'm running about a 2 inch drop
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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 11:55 AM
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Depends what kinda noise...
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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 01:02 PM
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yep

Mine used to for like 3 days then it stopped for 2 weeks, then again for one day, hasn't happened for a month. I'm not sure why someone explained it to me though.

I have a 97 lude
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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 02:06 PM
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unless you get true coil-overs... the off the shelf spring-on-perch set up will always rub/contact the strut/shock mounts. the woes of faux coil-overs
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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 02:51 PM
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its more like a sqeeking sound, its not all the time either and sometimes it gets louder.

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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 03:21 PM
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what brand coil overs did you get? i know the cheap shitty ones make noises left and right reguardless of how they are installed. my friend had the maxspeed i believe on his 5th gen, he then sold them asap and got the real deal ground controls.
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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 07:24 PM
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apc coilovers, up until 2 nights ago i had no complaints about them, but ever since i brought the front up about 1/2 inch i noised the noise,
so i'm thinking because the spring is compressed more than it was 1/2 inch lower it that its causing it to make noise.

now i know there not as good as GC or skunk but they will do for now,
could i change the springs take the apc springs off an put eibach springs on later on, or would the eibach springs not with the the rest of the apc coilovers?
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Old Aug 20, 2002 | 11:35 PM
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you should throw those pieces of crap in the garbage and go yell at the guy who sold them to u! or just try sell them and by some GC's, something that's actually worth calling a coilover!
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