What would you suggest . What was the difference from the sport ? What wheel size is most comfortableYour money your call. Depends on what you drive on and how you drive TBH. Personally I went back from sports suspension to standard and the ground clearance and ride quality improved for me.
Wheel size and tyre pressure can have a big effect on the handling.
Good Evening Robin,Sports have springs approximately 25mm shorter and with markedly higher spring rates (hardness).......
I thought, not sure why, or where I read it, that the Sports had a sort of cup that allowed the springs to sit higher, to give the sports a lower ride height.Good Evening Robin,
I am struggling with this statement. If you look at two 7zap pages for sport springs and non sport springs the spring part numbers are the same??????
Andy
If you look at two 7zap pages for sport springs and non sport springs the spring part numbers are the same??????
I thought that the Sports had a sort of cup that allowed the springs to sit higher, to give the sports a lower ride height.
6 | 1J0 512 149 B | underlay | upper | 2 | PR-0YD,0YE, 0YF,0YG,0YH, 0YJ+1GA,1GL, G03,G22 | |
(6) | 1J0 512 149 | underlay | upper | 2 | PR-0YK,G0L, 1GA,G07,G08, G22 |
6 | 1J0 512 149 B | underlay | upper | 2 | PR-0YD,0YE, 0YF,0YG,0YH, 0YJ+1GA,1GL, G03,G22 | |
(6) | 1J0 512 149 | underlay | upper | 2 | PR-0YK,G0L, 1GA,G07,G08, G22 |
When I did the review of the aftermarket springs out there it became obvious that there were a subset of springs that were ~25mm shorter and considerably higher spring rate than the standards - I've assumed they were Sport springs ever since. There was a thread 2-3 years ago here where someone either raised or lowered their car by around that amount with photographs and I picked up both the concept of there being distinct springs for sport models as well as - (mentioned again in @PlasticMac's post after mine) - specific rubber spring mounts that contribute to the height differential. I don't have a sport-suspended car in any of our three so I've not looked at the 7zap diagrams for that option code in earnest and I was unaware of the part number issue you've raised.Good Evening Robin,
I am struggling with this statement. If you look at two 7zap pages for sport springs and non sport springs the spring part numbers are the same??????
Andy
probably the only way we could work this out definitively would be for people with non-sport and sport-sprung models of various types to write in with their coloured spot codes on springs (if original and visible) or the suspension build codes on the build sticker. Compile the list once large enough to have representative data across a range of models and specifications and work it out which original 6Q0/8Z0 part numbers from the list on that 7zap page correspond to sport / non-sport.@Robin_Cox
Thank you for taking the time to consider and respond to my post.
I could accept that part of the 7zap spring list are sport springs and the remainder non sport springs and it may well turn out the sport subset are shorter in which case 7zap is at fault for the lazy presentation.
I am curious to know which springs are which. Just looked at the Bilstein website and that is no use for finding which is which, like Carlston's post above shows for the shocks, Bilstein front B3 maps to the one Audi spring, the one ending AL. A case of "one size fits all" I suspect.
Andy