Recent content by Dr Fox

A few months ago, I bought a second hand Xenon drivers headlight and unfortunately it arrived damaged. The bulb had been left in and this must have taken a knock somewhere on route and it snapped the white plastic adjustment mechanism (horizontal). Unhelpfully, both parcelforce and royal mail...

The fronts look to be in a lot better condition and I had a full geo set up done less than a year ago when the camber bolts were fitted so I'm reluctant to replace them with standard dampers and have this done again. I'm thinking I'll see how I get on with the new rears and higher pressures and...

Just to keep the thread updated, I've changed the rear dampers and it turns out that they were both pattern parts and both knackered... I replaced them with OEM cup shocks and hoping this improves things, I'll see if it helps on track along with a higher starting pressure and see how I get on...

Hmm, maybe springs won't help me out then... Do you run a rear anti roll bar? I've been looking at the rear dampers and think it might be worth replacing them with cup dampers...

If I bought an ignis I'd then need to buy coilovers, a turbo conversion and a dif before pulling everything off it, not quite the simple fix I was hoping for but it would be fun until a traffic cone wrote it off... Thanks to @harvsurrey for the suggestions: New cup shocks - good shout as one...

Not running a rear anti roll bar, do you think that would help more than stiffer springs? I'd like a decent set of coilovers but can't justify spending £1000 on them. That's £1000 I plan to put towards replacing it with a Megane 250 cup in the next couple of years...

That's good to hear, I could only get -1.5 using camber bolts and standard suspension, hopefully a set of springs will let me get a bit more! This is what I did but they seem to be rolling over too much, what do they drop down to cold and how do you warm them up slowly? I'm thinking I need to...

I had less pressure than that on my last set and wore the middle out first because they were overinflated, I need to try and find the happy middle ground. No I haven't kerbed the wheels or hit any unusually big potholes harder than expected. I have nothing without enthusiasm! Haha I'll aim...

Thanks, I fitted eibach camber bolts last year and then got the whole car alignment done, could it have moved that much already or is it just still not enough negative camber? Are new top mounts worth considering along with Cooksport springs and cup dampers?

Thanks, I'm already running eibach camber bolts at max so I'll up the pressures a bit and look at springs. What's the next step for more negative camber? Top mounts?

Thanks guys. @STEVE.M What are standard pressures for R888R's? I definitely don't have blankets... I ran the older set of R888's a bit higher and the middle wore down first so did a bit of research people suggested 30 hot but maybe the new tyre type needs to be a bit higher...

How much more negative camber do you think something like Cooksports would give? What is usually the next step for more camber?

Thanks @imprezaworks One of the shocks was leaking for an MOT 4 years ago so presumably replaced or ran out of fluid but other than that, could be original! I should have added that I'm already using camber bolts and had it set up on a proper laser alignment with as much negative camber as...

I'm running R888R's on a set of 15's on my 182 with standard cup suspension. During a track day on Friday, I noticed that I seem to be wearing the sidewall slightly. I run the tyres at 30psi hot so I don't think it's because the pressure is too low? I'm wondering whether it's because the...

If it's just for on the road and you're not going on track then yes, I would probably go with a suction mount. When I had this, I ran a 3m power cable from the cigarette lighter out behind the cup holders, behind the carpet in the passenger footwell, up the door rubber tucked in behind the trim...