[english] Vogtland Suspension Kit

[diegudio]

Hallo alles!... entschuldigung aber mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut... I'll continue in English if you allow me

I have installed a Vogtland suspension kit (springs + shocks), all from Vogtland, and bought to a german seller via ebay. The package arrived very quick to Madrid.

I've installed them on last Friday, and then I've been riding the car for 150km... in a beginning seems to be everything OK, the car has been lowered a lot (1cm more than the previous height with KW springs) and the handling improved dramatically with the combination of the new springs and shocks... Maybe a little bit hard and a little bit lower than expected, but nothing to be worried about.

The problems began with the un-tightening of one bolt, the one shown in the following picture:




I came back to the workshop and ask the guys to tighten it again, knowing for sure that it was a mistake from them...

However, in these two days I've noticed that there is some kind of noise, like a dry "toc-toc" coming from the rear axe astonish: the rear suspension)... the sound appears when I pass over an imperfection of the road, like a small hole or the expansion-junction between two blocks of a concrete road...

It's like if something is knocking in some part of the suspension...

It seems to be pretty clear that is something with the shocks, because the installation of the springs is well done and I've seen nothing extrange there... but with this "advance" of the untightening of one bolt, seems like the diameter of the bushing of the shock is bigger than the diameter of the bolt... like if there where some kind of "gap" between the bolt and the bush of the shock... but, this is just an idea, and for me is far from the real problem...

I'm really worried about this because it will force me to unmount everything or start making tests (un-mounting the springs or the shocks, mount the original ones or the KW springs with the vogtland shocks, etc etc)...

Do you know somebody with the same problem???

 

[RipPhil]

Moin,
Ich habe das selbe Fahrwerk, kann aber kaum Englisch.
Kann jemand übersetzten?

Danke Grüße Phil

 

[tomtomm]

Hey RipPhil,

ja, ich könnte versuchen zu übersetzen.

Aber nur, wenn Du ein paar Bilder Deines Leon mit den Vogtland-Federn einstellst..


EDIT (autom. Beitragszusammenführung) :
@ diegudio: Just a question:

Du you have the Vogtland coil-over kit (adjustable suspension)? (Gewindefahrwerk)

Or do you have the Vogtland sports suspension (non-adjustable)? -35 mm

 

[diegudio]

Hallo!
I have the Sport Suspension Kit (springs + shocks), not the coilovers

 

[tomtomm]

Sorry, I'm afraid I can't help you.
But I really like the look. This can't be 35 mm lowering. I would say this is about 50 mm.
Did you measure the lowering?


EDIT (autom. Beitragszusammenführung) :
@ diegudio:

Could you give me the part no. of your Vogtland suspension kit?
And could you give me the URL of the eBay article (where you bought it)?

Thanks!

 

[diegudio]

Für eure informationen, ich habe das Vogtland Kit abgebaut.
Es war zuviel hart... Jetzt habe ich die KW Federn mit originale Dämpfer...

Vorsicht mit den Vogtland Stoßdämpfern. Die Federn sind GUT, aber die Stoßdämpfer sind äußerst harte und schlechte Qualität.