I've got a set of those rear ones with jack all miles on em (3 track days)looking for a good home, excellent nick minus the bumpstops.BMWZ4MC wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:26 am Then it’s Beedub who puts us all to shame!
They’re very corroded. Here’s my leaking rear at 35k miles and 7 years showing some corrosion of the spring despite the liberal application of an aerosol of oil from the damper!
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Thanks for the offer. I replaced both rears when I found the leak. I’ll get the original KWs rebuilt at some point, but for now, they’re in a box in the corner of my garage with dozens of other car parts that I’m keeping just in case!
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Current pics of my car in hibernation shows the quality of KW are great, my kit is several years old by now.
The faff adjustment is made a lot easier by making a small lid for rear left bump adjust.
The faff adjustment is made a lot easier by making a small lid for rear left bump adjust.
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Are yours V3? As shown in the picture of my leaking rear shock, the rebound adjustment at the top of the Clubsports is a thumb wheel with detents (not via an Allen key as shown in your picture). It’s much easier to adjust through the wheel arch and can be done with the wheel in situ if the car is jacked up.Argenta wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:35 pm Current pics of my car in hibernation shows the quality of KW are great, my kit is several years old by now.
The faff adjustment is made a lot easier by making a small lid for rear left bump adjust.
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Your front spring looks like it’s lost some paint, much like my rear springs.
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The fronts have the std rubber noise-cancelling "hoses", apart from spots of dirt. The rear bumps are adjusted without jacking & gettin the hands dirty. The rebound at the reservoirs.
KW V3 yes, I believe from around 2014.
KW V3 yes, I believe from around 2014.
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Trouble is that kw changed the design I guess around 2015, so the ones you buy now have the bump adjuster at the top of the damper in the wheel well so you need to jack the car up to get to it. No biggy, but it is not as easy as you might hope.
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They changed it even longer ago than that - when I bought mine in 2013, the rear suspension rebound adjustment was already at the top of the damper within the wheel arch. I bought a pair of new rear dampers in 2020 to replace the leaking damper and found that KW had moved from an Allen key type adjustment to a numbered thumb wheel for bump at the bottom of the shock. My front shocks (again from 2013) adjust top and bottom with an Allen key type coupling.TomK wrote:Trouble is that kw changed the design I guess around 2015, so the ones you buy now have the bump adjuster at the top of the damper in the wheel well so you need to jack the car up to get to it. No biggy, but it is not as easy as you might hope.beanie wrote: That’s a neat solution
I don’t find it too much of an inconvenience jacking up the car to adjust the suspension, especially since I most often make adjustments when swapping to my track wheels and tyres. That said, it’s a simple and effective solution for adjustment with the original design.
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I’ll pitch in with my pics….
KW are a glorious thing - I had some in the past on an old car and the quality was superb! It was only the faff of adjustment that put me off for the Z…
Great to see so many options for our cars!
KW are a glorious thing - I had some in the past on an old car and the quality was superb! It was only the faff of adjustment that put me off for the Z…
Great to see so many options for our cars!
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Nice Mikey
I wish I had compression adjustment like that on the front dampers of the KWs. Instead i have to try and fumble around to insert a 1mm allen key at the bottom of the damper, I mean who came up with that idea and thought it's a good one? what's more annoying is they do a sensible adjuster just not for this series of dampers
I wish I had compression adjustment like that on the front dampers of the KWs. Instead i have to try and fumble around to insert a 1mm allen key at the bottom of the damper, I mean who came up with that idea and thought it's a good one? what's more annoying is they do a sensible adjuster just not for this series of dampers
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It would have been very straight forward to carry that over from their other line of dampers. That’s essentially what we have anyway, but with a non-captive anodised knob.
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I'll never buy a KW product again with the hex adjuster at the bottom. It doesn't take long, being exposed directly to road grime, before the adjuster seizes and you start rounding the soft metal with your allen key..
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I’ve not had that problem (yet) after 40k miles and nine years.
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