[s-cars] Eibachs... the "true " story

[Djdawson2 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 5/14/2003 9:57:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
bob.rossato at att.net writes:

> If Eibach is now claiming that the specs between the old 1529.001/.002 and
> today's 1527.001 &1516.002 (1517.002?) are the same, then one way or
> another they don't have very good records.
>

You write 1516.002 (1517.002?)... It's definately 1516.002 now.  I have a
current set, and the Eibach tech claimed that those were the "right" ones.
Hard to tell the true story.  I asked a bunch of questions, in light of what
I've heard from listers over the past several months, and I just relayed on
the answers I received.  One question I didn't ask was...  If the 1516.002s
are the right spring, what was the 1517.002 supposed to be for, if not the
S4?

All past incidents behind... I still gotta say I absolutely love them.  My
car has the 1517.002 rears, from which I cut off exactly one inactive coil (I
can hear it now).  This resulted in reducing the free length of the spring to
what the "right" one (1516.002) now is.

Several other listers have asked me (off list) what I did, and I told them.
They did the same coil removal, and have been happy with the results.
However, no one will likely make public mention of coil cutting, as it
generally brings an onslaught of objections.  I asked the tech about this
method of dealing with the problem, and he assured me that the spring rates
(there are 2) would remain in tact, as several of the upper coils function as
spacers, more or less.  Either way, he offered to send me a pair of the
1516.002s gratis.
FWIW,
Dave in CO