Apex Springs-Fitting Time

[182 clio racer]

Evening guys,

Im getting my Apex Springs fitted tomorrow morning by a mechanic whos a friend of the other halfs family. Hes saying its gonna be a long job so fitting cost may be high ( charges by the hour lol)

Does anybody have an idea of how long it should take??? He thinks upto 4hrs. Surley no longer than 2???

Any ideas so I can correct him would be appriciated

Thanks lads
Tom

 

[davebem]

It wont take that long, I fitted mine myself and that took about a hour and a half for all 4.

 

[182 clio racer]

Thats what I was thinking. He says hes read it somewhere that its a difficult change but if you managed it in that time it cant be all that bad.

Thanks mate

Tom

 

[leighk18]

well i did my springs in bout 2-3 hours and that was all by my self limited tools only a jack and brickers and frist ever time doing anythink like that

 

[182 clio racer]

well hes pretty good at what he does and hes got the spring compressors so he should be all sorted for an easy day lol

Cheers
Tom

 

[edde]

Takes 2 hours or so.

 

[Munson]

You don't need spring compressors for the RS Clio

 

[Adey.]

fitted mine last week, 1hr tops.

 

[john_clio_16v]

took me & my dad just over an hour or so, if we didn't have an issue with one of the spring compressors it would of been under an hour, its not a hard job. I would be looking some where else if they had estimated a 4 hours m8

 

[DH_GTI]

if hes any good 1 hour max lol, no spring comps needed, rears take 15/20min

 

[Turkish]

4 hours!!! is he an inbred? rears take about 10mins tops the whole job should take him about an hour if he's any good or 2 if he's taking his time.

 

[davebem]

He probably doesnt realise how simple the Clio is. It took my mate a whole weekend to change the springs on his Mondeo.

 

[Dan@SJM]

Took me an hour on ladysarah's 182.

Thats with no ramp either, you dont even need to take the wheels off on the rear.

 

[Lam7r]

First time i did them on my old RS it took me 4 hours, but that involved nipping to halfords as i didnt have the right size tool, Then a good 30mins scratching my head when the shock got stuck on the CV boot.

However when i came to swap them back over to standard to sell it took me 2 hours.

Fred (yozza) can do them in an hour i think.

Def not a 4 hour job for a mechanic

 

[ChrisPearson]

Do them urself! A mechanic has read somewhere?shouldnt he know!And it took me about 20 mins on back and about 1 hour and a half on the fronts with fubars guide n did my mates yesterday now i know how.

 

[182 clio racer]

Cheers for the replies guys,

Ive dropped it off this morning and told him what you guys have said. He must have been thinking of coilovers? Dunno, either way doesnt sound to hard. Should be done soon, cannt bloody wait now

Tom

 

[fUbAr]

coilovers will take even less time...but require setting up properly.

its really not too hard, took me 2.5 hours to do myself, taking my time and taking photo's along the way for my how-to guide.

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