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Old 08-22-2015, 06:05 AM
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KW coilover install- do I need these

Just doing the fronts this weekend with stock ride height. The bump stops and their boots are quite obvious but the kit also came with another small bump stop looking thing and a flat plastic "washer". Does anyone know whether these are needed? I am not sure where to put them. The stock setup does not have anything like this.

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Old 08-22-2015, 11:22 PM
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Yay, nightmare time. It took ages to get the stock springs off (semi-safely). I recommend no one ever do this with regular hand turning spring compressors. Just pay the local garage to use their industrial spring compressor, next to no effort and save 3 hours.

The problem now.... after completely bolting them back in the car.... the stock swaybar endlinks are M12, the hole in the KW swaybar mounts is.... 10mm. Looks like I will be hitching a ride to work on Monday. Anyone ever encountered this problem? Perhaps the coilovers are designed with non-amg models in mind, do they have smaller end link bolts maybe?
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Maybe you should call KW support as well. It is likely they have encounter the issue several times.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I will send them an email, they usually reply somewhat quickly. Regardless I took them to the local engineer who enlarged the holes to 12.5mm. My stainless steel drilling skills are not the best.

Got the fronts installed today and it is about 13mm higher than stock at the highest setting which is a nice suprise. I made my own collars as I wanted to get to stock ride height.

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