What have people paid for qa1's to be put on?
03-30-2006 | 09:59 AM
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What have people paid for qa1's to be put on? I have a set of Qa1's with the front spring already on the shock. How much does the normal install cost. I know the rears are a piece of cake.
03-30-2006 | 02:05 PM
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Ya, but I have heard from some people that the fronts are harder to put on. The spring is already in its perch and everything. How much should I look at paying as I have no tools since I just moved to Florida?
03-30-2006 | 03:36 PM
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I just put in a set of Koni SA's on the front of my car. I reused my stock springs, so when I pulled them out I had a shop install the springs. But everything else I did on my own.
The main things you have to look out for is your endlinks snapping (both of mine did) and the drivers side upper strut mount. The damn T-50 torx head bolts are a major pain in the ***. Once you get them out, I switched them to the passenger side (a LOT easier to get to) and put the regular bolts from the passenger side to the drivers side.
Some people also have trouble getting the arm off of the upper shock mount, but both of mine popped out with a few whacks of a hammer. You may need to rent a pickle fork (at autozone or something) to get that sucker out. Once that's off, make sure you don't let the whole brake assembly hang by the brake line, block it up on something.
The main tools that I remember using were 13, 14, 15mm deep sockets, T-50 bit and a few extensions, that's about it. Be careful using spring compressors though, I know a few people that had them let loose and the whole assembly spring apart. One of them broke their jaw too
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It cost me 30 bucks to have both springs put on by a shop (and one side was badly rusted so it took the shop a while to get it out). It was worth it for me
Good luck!
The main things you have to look out for is your endlinks snapping (both of mine did) and the drivers side upper strut mount. The damn T-50 torx head bolts are a major pain in the ***. Once you get them out, I switched them to the passenger side (a LOT easier to get to) and put the regular bolts from the passenger side to the drivers side.
Some people also have trouble getting the arm off of the upper shock mount, but both of mine popped out with a few whacks of a hammer. You may need to rent a pickle fork (at autozone or something) to get that sucker out. Once that's off, make sure you don't let the whole brake assembly hang by the brake line, block it up on something.
The main tools that I remember using were 13, 14, 15mm deep sockets, T-50 bit and a few extensions, that's about it. Be careful using spring compressors though, I know a few people that had them let loose and the whole assembly spring apart. One of them broke their jaw too
.It cost me 30 bucks to have both springs put on by a shop (and one side was badly rusted so it took the shop a while to get it out). It was worth it for me
Good luck!
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04-02-2006 | 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by black01_WS6
anyone else? really wanting to know how much it should cost to put these on.
Well, I was quoted like 400 or 500 (cant remeber exactly how much) to put in new springs and shocks on all for corners (plus the cost of parts of course).
I ended up doing them myself