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  • M030

    June 26, 2010 5:26 p.m. M030 HalfDork

    Can anyone suggest a good, affordable sport suspension package for a 2002 VW Jetta?

    The car is a base model 2.0L GL that we service, and the car's owner wants to have my shop work the suspension over. The car is a daily driver, so it has to ride acceptably for the street. He's looking for a firmer ride, better steering feel and a little less understeer. He says he may autocross it once or twice a year.

    Whatever we do, it's got to be budget friendly (up to $2000 or so), so no $4000 coil over suspension packages or anything really radical. He's running 17" wheels that he would like to keep.

    Anyone have any experience with these cars?

  • June 26, 2010 5:34 p.m. grimmelshanks Reader

    one of my buddies got a tein kit for his mk4 tdi yetti, i vaguely remember it having been high school budget friendly

  • June 26, 2010 5:38 p.m. Ian_F Reader

    Shine Real Street

    http://www.kermatdi.com/servlet/-strse-79/A4-Shine-Racing-Real/Detail

    Arguably not the best set-up out there, but pretty good. Of course, if he's looking for a "slammed" set-up, then this won't do that... on most cars, the result is actually taller than stock.

  • M030

    June 26, 2010 6:06 p.m. M030 HalfDork

    I'm sure he doesn't want a "slammed" suspension. The car is his only transportation & it snows here in the winter.

  • John Brown

    June 26, 2010 7:43 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    Koni 1150 5083.

    http://www.soloperformance.com/Koni-1150-5083_p_410.html

    /thread.

  • John Brown

    June 26, 2010 8:23 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    I just got a set of these used for less than a quarter of the cost new... 8,000 miles on them.

    http://www.esetuning.com/FK-Automotive-Sport-Edition-Plus-Coilovers-p/fkptvw73.htm

  • M030

    June 26, 2010 9:06 p.m. M030 HalfDork

    The Shine Racing Real Street kit, so far, looks like the suspension he wants. Reasonable ride, not too low, better turn-in, less understeer, etc.

    Along those same lines, does anybody have any experience with Neuspeed "SofSport" springs? They claim to do the same thing as the Shine Racing kit.

  • June 27, 2010 1:53 a.m. robertcope New Reader

    VWVortex has some very good information on suspensions for the MKIV. In particular there is a long thread about geometry and the impact of lowering the vehicle[1]; in summary, it is generally not the way to make a MKIV handle well, at least without doing other work first. You can also run into axle/CV-related issues.

    I guess I won't claim to have a huge amount of experience, but I run the Shine setup, and I feel like it works quite nicely in my GLI daily driver/HPDE toy. Everyone comments on how high the car looks, but after they ride with me, they also comment on how planted and solid it feels around the track.

    robert

    [1] MKIV Suspension Thread

  • M030

    June 27, 2010 7:53 a.m. M030 HalfDork

    Thanks everybody.

    Shine Racing Real Street it is.

 
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