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- Location
- Long Island
- Car(s)
- 2018 GTI
I've been chasing a annoying and very loud squeak/ creek in the front struts since I've installed ed springs about 2k miles ago. Car has 7k total.
Looks like the top coils are running causing the noise. Anyone else run into this?
Pics
Edit:
When I contacted them they tried to blame everything but the spring. They asked if I cut the bumpstops. I answered vaguely to see their response. They then said cutting them could product the coil catch, totally contradicting their diy video.
They then said t was impossible to have that binding as it would taken 90% coil compression!
"Based on your photos, it appears that your suspension is being overly compressed (indicating that the bump stops are trimmed well outside their functional height). In order for the top coil to contact the second, you will need to be above 90% of the spring's compression (outside of the recommended range for any spring). For our local installs, we typically trim the bump stops on non-sport cars (base Golf, etc.) as they are lowered around 1.8" and will sit on the bump stops. The Golf R, GTI, S3, etc. have shorter bump stops due to being a factory sport suspension car and trimming is not needed on these platforms (VW also updated them in 2016, introducing an even shorter design)."
I had to once agin prove that was a false statement by showing at static ride height the coil actually rests inside the coil below it. I simply took the wheel off and jacked up the suspension using the vehicle weight.
FYI my bumpstops have not been trimmed since day one.
Looks like the top coils are running causing the noise. Anyone else run into this?
Pics
Edit:
When I contacted them they tried to blame everything but the spring. They asked if I cut the bumpstops. I answered vaguely to see their response. They then said cutting them could product the coil catch, totally contradicting their diy video.
They then said t was impossible to have that binding as it would taken 90% coil compression!
"Based on your photos, it appears that your suspension is being overly compressed (indicating that the bump stops are trimmed well outside their functional height). In order for the top coil to contact the second, you will need to be above 90% of the spring's compression (outside of the recommended range for any spring). For our local installs, we typically trim the bump stops on non-sport cars (base Golf, etc.) as they are lowered around 1.8" and will sit on the bump stops. The Golf R, GTI, S3, etc. have shorter bump stops due to being a factory sport suspension car and trimming is not needed on these platforms (VW also updated them in 2016, introducing an even shorter design)."
I had to once agin prove that was a false statement by showing at static ride height the coil actually rests inside the coil below it. I simply took the wheel off and jacked up the suspension using the vehicle weight.
FYI my bumpstops have not been trimmed since day one.
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