Suspension Services
We have a number of different performance suspension components available for your vehicle. Depending on how you mainly use it, we will recommend appropriate upgrades using components from only the most reputable brands tailored to your specific needs. Regardless of whether you’re just looking for a lowered stance, or a full, track-ready setup, we’ve got you covered.
Lowering Springs
Installing a quality set of lowering springs is a great way to enhance your vehicle’s stance, giving it more curbside appeal, but it’s also great for improving handling. Lower springs lower a vehicle’s centre of gravity, reducing body roll during cornering and increasing stability. This cost-effective modification is an excellent way of striking a balance between daily driving comfort and enhanced road-holding for more spirited driving.
Coilovers
Coilovers are the way to go if you’re seeking comprehensive control over your vehicle’s dynamics and appearance. They allow for the ride height to be adjusted to your exacting standards, and many setups also allow for damping changes. This adjustability makes coilovers ideal for both road and track use, no matter whether you’re going for the perfect stance, or seeking to shave vital seconds off of your best lap times.
Chassis And Suspension Diagnostic
Dampers
Dampers, or shock absorbers, prevent a vehicle’s springs from bouncing excessively when hitting bumps in the road, or during cornering. High-performance dampers offer increased durability and adjustability, enabling changes to be made to how hardly or softly a vehicle rides. Optimised damping results in improved traction, reduced body roll, and increased stability during acceleration and braking. This modification can make a car more comfortable on the road, or significantly quicker around a track.
Anti-roll Bars
Performance anti-roll bars enhance cornering performance and vehicle stability by reducing body roll during hard cornering. They connect a vehicle’s opposite wheels through a torsion spring to distribute weight more evenly across a vehicle’s chassis for improved grip and balance. Upgrading to stiffer and adjustable anti-roll bars will allow you to fine-tune your vehicle’s handling characteristics depending on your primary driving conditions without compromising ride quality.
Bushings
Performance bushings are made from more durable material (usually polyurethane) than standard ones, resulting in much-reduced suspension flex. This leads to sharpened steering response and more precise handling. Upgraded bushings minimise unnecessary movement during aggressive driving for a more connected driving experience, and they help achieve this without sacrificing too much ride comfort. They’re available in various hardness levels, with harder bushings more suited to track driving.
Strut Braces
Strut braces, or strut bars, are a great way of increasing structural rigidity. They connect the top points of a vehicle’s suspension struts, reducing chassis flex during cornering. The result of this is improved handling stability, more precise steering, and reduced understeer. Strut braces are a great way of improving your vehicle’s driving experience on both the road and track.
If you’re experiencing noises from your suspension system regardless of how it may sound, these can be very difficult to trace back to the source as sound travels through the chassis. Time and patience is key in this, as when you are searching for a noise there is no room for educated guessing. The only way to accurately diagnose these kind of issues is to test every component and rule them out.
The actual suspension problems will either come from how the car is driving and how it feels round corners, or how the car actually sits. If one corner seems to have dropped there may be a broken spring. Measuring ride height, testing damper oscillation, and even removing dampers to test rebound speed is not uncommon when trying to diagnose what is causing the car to drive poor. Long gone are the days of simply observing a misting damper.
Issues with wheel alignment can cause uneven tyre wear. Our alignment system and technicians who actually understand the readings and why manufactures specify these, and in some cases making corrections ensure you aren’t paying out for tyres more than you need to be. On top of this we carry out pre-checks to confirm that it is the alignment causing the problem and not a worn suspension arm or bush.
End links, otherwise known as drop links are the component that links the anti-roll bar to each opposing axle wheel to give stability in corners. These components are commonly wearing out/failing, due to our poor road conditions in the UK, and as they naturally work under tension their life span can be short. Meaning a suspension clunk is usually caused by one of these. If misdiagnosed, you could replace a very expensive suspension component for the sake of a £15 drop link.