RE: shortened struts...

[Riley McDowall <roog@home.com>]

At 3:55 am +0200 16/5/99, michael.vanamburgh@ramstein.af.mil wrote:
>Sheesh, tell us how ya really feel.  :-)  But really, Spax really isn't all
>THAT bad.  Yes, there have been quite a few stories of the shocks blowing
>out, but Spax has supposedly improved their process.  I had the 60 mm
>adjustable setup on a GTI VR6 (Golf VR6 for our European friends) and I
>really did like the setup a lot.  I had it on there for over a year without
>problems.  I guess I was one of the lucky ones.  Bottom line...based on my
>experience I would buy the Spax setup for my Scirocco when the time comes.

Geez Mike, I really wish you wouldn't do that :)

In my experience, the non-adjustable Spax kit I had on my car worked great
for about a year.  Then the springs started going soft and the shocks got
loose.  For that first year, I was quite happy with them too... My stuff
never had any catastrophic failures while I had it on the car (although I
know LOTS of people here in Vancouver who have replaced shocks  5 or 6
times under warranty before giving up and buying Bilsteins or Konis, other
people who have had shock pistons seize, etc), but after 2 years both my
front shocks were totally shot.

So to conclude, Spax makes a good one-year suspension kit that has a
tendency to fail in one of several ways, often sooner than later.  YMMV,
but probably not by much :)

>BTW, it's nice to be back.  I just signed on again yesterday.  I was without
>e-mail capability for a little while.  Hope I didn't miss much!

Welcome back!



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