Evening peps, long time no see hey.. I need to loose weight, I know this as on Wednesday of last week I went to get in the Octy bum on seat and then heard the front spring pop.

So now is the time to replace the lot I think, some of you may know I have quite a serious back condition so I dont want to be bumping along the road. I was thinking correct me if I am wrong just going with Munro shocks and some H&R springs for a tiny lowering, I am running 18"s. I am not sure about coilovers although I dont really understand them. I can at a push get around £500.00 to put towards this.......

Anyone have any ideas please or anyone have what I need sitting in the garage so I can save a little???? Also I seem to remember reading a good while back you need to be careful buying the right dampers as companys like to give you the standard 1.8 turbo ones.

Cheers Dave

If you have a serious back problem the only replacement you should be looking at is stock parts

Or FSD's... way over budget with springs though.

And yes, you DO have to be very careful with the front shocks. Euro car parts and Allparts DON'T do vRS corrent front shocks, no matter what they might try to tell you. I found this the hard way, and still had to resort to stock bits from TPS. Still very unhappy with my suspension though, but Estates are a bit more troublesome.

I'd love to go for decent springs and shocks, but the options are more limited. (For instance, Koni do the lurvely FSD kits for vRS, but not the Estate. They do a kit for standard Estate's however, but then you get the wrong front shocks. GRRRRRR!)

I'd have a word over the phone with Awesome, DPM, Jabbasport etc. and make SURE you get somebody who really knows the vRS's.

You might have to stretch the budget a little I suspect though, if you truly want it to be less bumpy.

I wouldn't be looking to Monroe, personally, but I can't base that on specific vRS experience. Only older Fords.

Avoid Koni STR-T kits too. Harsh by all accounts.