D2 coilovers

**SidGTi** · 09-02-2009, 06:31 PM

Hi all,

Currently I have only H&R lowered springs fitted to the stock suspension on my GTI and was thinking of upgrading to coilovers. In particular the D2 set. Anyone heard of these or have them fitted to their car? I've done a search but could not find many threads. I won't be tracking the car very often. Maybe once in a year. I'm more interested in improving handling and further lowering.

Are coilovers hard to live with? I take the train to and from work so my car only gets driven mostly on the weekends.

If not D2 coilovers can anyone else suggest some other decent brand? My budget is $2K including fitting.

Thanks guys.

**s1831559** · 09-02-2009, 07:06 PM

hi,
i was going to get a set for my previous car. thus i did fair a bit of research on it.

D2 are taiwanese made. good quality coil, fully adjustible.

but they mainly do jap cars. not too sure if they hav been tested extensively in our pog. which i doublt it, coz there are only a handful of polo gti in taiwan.

u can pick up a set just over 1k, good value for money.

hope this will help.

**SidGTi** · 09-02-2009, 07:39 PM

Thanks for the info.

Not to knock the Taiwanese but they aren't exactly known for their world class manufacturing quality....I could be wrong in this case.

Hmmmm having second thoughts now. Might do some more research.

**s1831559** · 10-02-2009, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by SidGTi

Thanks for the info.

Not to knock the Taiwanese but they aren't exactly known for their world class manufacturing quality....I could be wrong in this case.

Hmmmm having second thoughts now. Might do some more research.

dun get me wrong. D2 are made in taiwan not china.
quality is world class as D2 is not a small company, they distribute allover the wolrd, and they OEM other brand too.

another info is taiwan hasnt got the best road quality in the world. in fact its pretty hallarious. and D2 tests their product on these condition to ensure that the coil does survive.

**XXX-1.8T** · 11-02-2009, 09:01 AM

i wouldnt trust them!

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2029181

**SidGTi** · 11-02-2009, 09:20 AM

Well thats certainly made my mind up for me now for sure!

**JCM308** · 11-02-2009, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by XXX-1.8T

i wouldnt trust them!

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2029181

I don't know why you wouldn't trust them because of this thread. This guy has slammed into something and you'd probably be hard up to find any suspension that at least wouldn't bend under the same situation.

I know a couple of people running the D2's and they've never had an issue. One of them has them on his track car (S13 with 250kW atw). He's done about 10 track days sofar without a problem.

It comes down to the old saying "you get what you pay for". Obviously they won't be as refined as a set of Bilstein coilovers but then again they're about 1/4 of the price so you wouldn't expect them to be. Another advantage to these is that they haven't been as affected by the plummit in the aussie dollar so you can still get a set for a decent price.

At the end of the day it's up to you. I'd personnally consider the D2's and as long as you don't want to be tracking the car all day every day you will probably never have a problem.

BTW they have a team in a few of the drift comps around the place (Aus and USA I think) and they never seem to have a problem. Obviously they would be replacing parts more often than you or me but you don't see them breaking half way through a run (and they get punished).

**Steve88** · 09-02-2009, 08:13 PM

hi mate, i got a quote for H&R coilovers from pedders $1900 but i have no idea what they feel like i took a holiday instead of buying them

that quote was for a 08 Polo GTI

**Mischa** · 09-02-2009, 08:18 PM

if you can get h&r's for 1900 thats a great price. highly recommended from me, i have them in my mk5. not hard to live with at all and i have them on the lowest setting and do 30000k's a year