Originally Posted by STi-owns-evo

+1 for Koni yellows. Lifetime warranty is great if you're just daily driving it and don't need an aggressive valving. Mine lasted about 100k miles before starting to weep oil, called up Koni and they said weeping oil is almost a 100% guarantee for warranty, faxed in my info with a form you fill out online, and bam, a week later, new shocks at my door.

What's great, is if your shocks are older than 5 years, they'll replace the pair (front or rear) instead of just one corner. If you're going to keep your car for a while, it's worth the investment.

Originally Posted by Heedz

Megan coils are junk, improper valving, springs rates all put together in a package


What kind of driving? 2 Years for me would be 50k miles and about 10-15k of it on a mountain road






Koni's would cost about $600 after shipping they should be going on spring sale soon. Why waste $500 on a stock set up with springs that aren't really meant to be there with the set up? Yeah it may last XX amount of years and miles but in the long run, you buy koni's they have a warranty (I think lifetime). Inserts are the way to go on a street car that you want to have some fun with, correct valving not only that you can still adjust them. I've heard good about tokiko D-specs and have driven a car with them on but I know they are picky with spring selection.

Now to the money issue I know where you're coming from, I'm in the same boat. But that difference of $100 was huge. I went from stock suspension, stock struts with H-Techs to Koni+Swift with a pillowball LCA, which rode better. The answer is clear.

Originally Posted by STi-owns-evo

+1 for Koni yellows. Lifetime warranty is great if you're just daily driving it and don't need an aggressive valving. Mine lasted about 100k miles before starting to weep oil, called up Koni and they said weeping oil is almost a 100% guarantee for warranty, faxed in my info with a form you fill out online, and bam, a week later, new shocks at my door.

What's great, is if your shocks are older than 5 years, they'll replace the pair (front or rear) instead of just one corner. If you're going to keep your car for a while, it's worth the investment.

Originally Posted by Heedz

Koni's would cost about $600 after shipping they should be going on spring sale soon.

Originally Posted by STi-owns-evo

+1 for Koni yellows. Lifetime warranty is great if you're just daily driving it and don't need an aggressive valving. Mine lasted about 100k miles before starting to weep oil, called up Koni and they said weeping oil is almost a 100% guarantee for warranty, faxed in my info with a form you fill out online, and bam, a week later, new shocks at my door.

What's great, is if your shocks are older than 5 years, they'll replace the pair (front or rear) instead of just one corner. If you're going to keep your car for a while, it's worth the investment.

Originally Posted by wombatsauce

Awesome - can you link me? I keep seing $750+ shipping but I am probably doing it wrong!

As many have said, the Koni yellows are awesome. I work it like this: if I am selling the car, I would put GR-2's on it. They are great, but they are a stock replacement. AGXs are between Koni yellows and the GR-2s, but will be cheaper to "have installed" since they come with the spring perch and do not require assembly. If you are keeping your car forever, just do what you need to save up for the Konis and the install. It will be worth it.

GR-2s would be okay. AGX would be better. Konis will show you what suspension control is supposed to be like.

Originally Posted by slugrx

Gr-2's are being phased out for "excel-g" shocks..there are some gr-2s out there, but its mostly excel-g now...think the only difference is name and I think shock body color

Didn't know about the lifetime with koni yellows..good stuff

Originally Posted by G_Ride

That $600 isn't for the 02-07 Impreza unfortunately. That's the price I see for the 05+ Legacy and 08+ Impreza. The best Koni price I've seen for 02-07 is $700-750.

Originally Posted by esousa22

yeah, I cant find any for 600 like heedz was saying but he had a leggy so he was probably going off that. I cant fork out for than $500, I am considering being the test dummy on the racelandus coilovers just for the f*ck of it. I know they will most likely go to crap in about a year or two but by then I'll have spare cash to drop on some other suspension parts.

Originally Posted by slugrx

I usually don't disagree with you, but I installed my bc br coilovers in september 2010 with appx 95-8k on my car...its got 164k now and they are the same as when I installed them (they were used with 8-10k miles on them)

Originally Posted by Brfatal

I assure you they are not. There are people out their with stock struts with over 200k on them that aren't leaking even though finding stock WRX struts that still work properly with over ~80k miles on them would be an impossibility. Coilovers require periodic rebuilds. Teins have a service interval of 40k miles. BC does not have a stated rebuild mileage but I can tell you now that Teins will last longer. By design BC BRs have a shorter lifespan given the same usage.

GR-2s will raise the front of your car a about 1/2 an inch.

Originally Posted by wombatsauce

To be fair, most of the time with suspension, it fails so gradually that most people do not detect an abrupt change, and do not realize things have worn out or what-have-you. I agree with you, if he were to swap out for a new or rebuilt set of the same, there would definitely be a difference. Stuff like suspension experiences a good amount of wear and degradation in 60k+ miles of usage, but unless something fails drastically - most people do not notice.

Originally Posted by Brfatal

I assure you they are not. There are people out their with stock struts with over 200k on them that aren't leaking even though finding stock WRX struts that still work properly with over ~80k miles on them would be an impossibility. Coilovers require periodic rebuilds. Teins have a service interval of 40k miles. BC does not have a stated rebuild mileage but I can tell you now that Teins will last longer. By design BC BRs have a shorter lifespan given the same usage.

GR-2s will raise the front of your car a about 1/2 an inch.

Originally Posted by G_Ride

You should just get a replacement from RockAuto Parts Catalog for now and save up for what you really want.