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lightice
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 Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:53 am Post subject: Koni 80-1349 & 80-1350 |
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Has anyone tried these shocks on their stock splits?
Any reviews on them?
These are available at my local spares shop.
Based on ratwell:
http://www.ratwell.com/technical/Koni.html
They are for split front/rear. |
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Sniperx
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a rebuilt (I rebuilt them) set on my bus. They are much nicer than KYBs and seemed to make my bus stop sooner and flatter rather than nose diving. I've also cornered them pretty hard and never had a "here we go" feeling. |
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mandraks
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i have always used the konis up front and the Bilstein gas shocks in the back.
And, yes, they are awesome, and comfy. quite possibly the most signifact ride improvement you can just "bolt on"
i can go back and forth between bias ply and radials, but i would never run stock shocks as long as the koni's and bilsteins are available
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GTV
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Not so much of a question as an observation...
I ran Koni's on my last IRS Beetle and absolutely loved them. Vowed to use nothing else on an ACVW. So I was searching on Koni's website just now and I see that they use the same shock for link pin (1349) and swing (1350) T1's, T2's and T3's. I'm surprised to see this as there is obviously a huge weight and spring difference (and I would assume compressed and extended length as well?) between a type one and type two...
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Red Fau Veh
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Where can I buy Koni's for my 61 bus?
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dawerks
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eshocks.com has Koni's and Bilsteins.
I prefer the Bilsteins (usually in stock, whereas the Koni's are not, and they are not listed bus specific).
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GTV
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Cheapest Koni's I found were on eBay, $91 each shipped. Worth every penny.
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Homeresque
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| Unbelievably I found my Koni/Bilsteins thru Summit. The Bilsteins they had in stock under a different PN than I was looking for but it cross-refs to the new # they have, and the Konis drop-shipped from the factory. |
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bullifecal
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:31 pm Post subject: koni shocks |
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Are the 80-1349 shocks adjustable?
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mandraks
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 9:42 am Post subject: Re: koni shocks |
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| bullifecal wrote: |
| Are the 80-1349 shocks adjustable? |
the konis are are adjustable, rebound that is. Never needed to do that, though
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| Sniperx wrote: |
| I have a rebuilt (I rebuilt them) set on my bus. |
How do you rebuild a shock? |
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Mr. Electric Wizard
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Those of you Koni users, are you running the red Special D's?
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| Mr. Electric Wizard wrote: |
| Those of you Koni users, are you running the red Special D's? |
Not sure what a special D is but they are red in color.
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| Running them on my bus front and rear and love them. |
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curtis4085
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 2:33 pm Post subject: Re: Koni 80-1349 & 80-1350 |
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I have a question for those running the Koni's up front on stock suspension. I recently decided to upgrade my shocks to Koni's. Upon installing the front shocks I noticed that the top portion of the shock hits the mounting plate making it impossible to bolt it down. See below
Anyone ever experience this? And if so what was your fix?
To give clearance I added a 7mm shim in between shock and mounting plate and used longer bolts.
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curtis4085
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Koni 80-1349 & 80-1350 |
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| brettsvw wrote: |
| The shocks I bought recently came with similar spacers, they were not Koni shocks. |
These spacers were out of another set of shocks. Not Koni's! You would think at $104 a shock it would come with shims.
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