Tein Basic Coilovers

**gotboost** · 10-31-2008 06:55 AM

Just wondering who's got them, how the ride and quality is and are they adjustable on the car? Thanks

**AudiA4_20T** · 10-31-2008 07:09 AM

all of them are fine to adjust while on the car... to be honest you probably wont adjust it on the car anyway

**NateW** · 10-31-2008 07:43 AM

do you mean are the adjustable w/o lifting the car up? No. You can't adjust coilovers w/o jacking the car up.

**octechgeek** · 01-02-2009 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by gotboost

Just wondering who's got them, how the ride and quality is and are they adjustable on the car? Thanks

I just purchased and installed a set of Tein Basics recently. The install is a PITA in the rears, front's where ok. As for adjustability, fronts are height adjustable and can be adjusted on the car, but for the rears, forget about it. You need to take the entire rear assembly out to adjust it. Once they are in, they are in unless you want to spend 3 hours disassembling the rear suspension just to do a few mm turns on the adjustment plate.

If you do still decide to go the the Tein basics, set the rears all the way to the lowest setting. They have not settle yet because it's been only 5 hours since I just installed mine, but I have a 1 finger gap in the rear with 19's wrapped with 265/30/19 tires. I'm sure once they settle, I'll get about 1/2 finger gap which is what i'm after.

As for ride, I think they a softer than my OEM USP sports suspension, but it's only been about 5 hours so I'll let you know exactly in a week or two.

good luck