Coilover installation

[marffeus]

Hello all,

I'm about to order my coilovers (leaning towards H&R but those BCs are pretty sexy too) and am curious about the difficulty in installation of these. I've read a few how-to guides, and still am having a hard to gauging how much of a PITA it will or won't be.

Tool wise, I think I'm ok. My girlfriend's family has plenty of jacks, tools and decent experience with working on cars, but I can't guarantee they will want to help me lol

The local shop here (COBB Tuning shop in Plano) quoted me $400 for full installation of coilovers and rear camber arms, with alignment and corner weighting, which sounds pretty reasonable to me. But, if I could save ~$200 for installation, then why not I hear the biggest PITA is the camber arms, so I could even skip them for now.

So anyone who has done the install on our car specifically, can you offer any insight to how hard it is to complete? Would a green shade mechanic such ad myself be better leaving this one to pros?

Thanks

 

[Sport6]

Well to offer something to save you money an possibly headaches... you could check the for sale section, there is a few BC sets in there for really cheap actually. So if you pick those up and have the shop do the work. 400 for all that and corner weighting is actually a good deal.

 

[LOL WUT]

I would gladly pay 400$ to have them installed and know it is done correctly and if something is not correct, having the piece of mind to go back and have them correct it would be nice.

 

[marffeus]

Yeah I think I will just let the shop do it. I'd regret not going that route if something expensive went wrong...

Speaking of BC coilovers, can someone clarify whether or not they come standard with the front adjustable camber plates?

 

[Wastegate13]

Yeah I think I will just let the shop do it. I'd regret not going that route if something expensive went wrong...

Speaking of BC coilovers, can someone clarify whether or not they come standard with the front adjustable camber plates?

The camber plates are technically an option although some places do not sell them without.

 

[ericm]

$400 is a good deal. I was quoted over $1000 from a local speed shop! Admittedly they are expensive but good. I did it myself instead. I have lots of tools, air tools, jacks etc, and I have done it before, and it still took me all day. That was for Mazdaspeed coilovers, the BCs would be a bit easier since they don't require stock parts.

I didn't do the camber arms since I didn't lower the car much (1/2 inch). My front and rear camber came out at 1.5 degrees.

 

[marffeus]

yeah I'm considering just letting the shop do it heh. Altho the alignment is included, it seems almost wasted if the coils haven't even had time to settle no?