Thread: King springs, any good!

Originally Posted by scott oz

I had Lovell springs in my old 200 TDI which had a big Thomas Ramsey winch, weighed a ton. I asked Lovell to raise the vehicle an inch from standard and bias the drivers side and I wanted lineal rated.

I took it back three times as the springs sagged.

Never again.

I've only heard good things about Kings and when I go again they certainly will be on my list

if you want sag then kings are for you

kings compromise height for ride quality.

cheers phil

if you want sag then kings are for you

kings compromise height for ride quality.

cheers phil

Thats a bit of a generalisation, sounds like a poor choice of spring not manufacturer. If you have ride quality but not the height you wanted then you either are carrying more weight than you thought or picked the wrong length spring. If your springs sacrifice ride quality for height I.E a much heavier rate to hold the car up, when they sag they will still be a hard riding spring that won't change.

I've used King Springs in my race cars for 15 years and have never had a problem. This includes a set of custom ground variable rate springs.

Our Commodore also has had a set in for at least 8 years. They transformed the Commodore and there has been no sign of sag at all.

When I re-spring the Disco, I'll be using Kings.

Originally Posted by awabbit6

I've used King Springs in my race cars for 15 years and have never had a problem. This includes a set of custom ground variable rate springs.

Our Commodore also has had a set in for at least 8 years. They transformed the Commodore and there has been no sign of sag at all.

When I re-spring the Disco, I'll be using Kings.

I only ever used Kings for my race springs too, and they all sagged, took sets and leaned over drunkenly which made corner weight setting a pain in the arse when swapping around springs at the track.
The rates were spot on when we checked them.

In their defence, that was fifteen years ago.

These days I would use Eibach wound to my specs if I could afford them. (I don't like off the shelf spring rates, generally too hard IMO for what I want to do)
Lovells cold wound springs should be good, (gerenerally only used for springs using 5/8" wire and under) as they were shown how to make real springs when they were the Eibach distributors, but I have no experince with them these days.

Originally Posted by scotyp

Hi all,

Has anyone had any king springs, I need to replace the front coils to my defender and the king springs are quite a bit cheaper and free delivery, but are they any good

thanks in advance

Scotty p

Why hasnt anyone mentioned Dobinsons Springs. IMHO they are a great spring especially when used in combination with their shockabsorbers. Reasonably priced, will deliver anywhere but a bit firm when new. Bob

thanks guys,

think I'll play it safe and go with ome, i have to say they have lasted 12 years and have been through hell in the last couple, not to firm, not to soft, just right ,

thanks agaain

scotyp

The kings in the rear of the county have sagged
They say they are 50mm lift but are realy 30-40mm lift
Personly i would go with dobinson

TIM.

i bought a set of king springs second hand of discowhite back in 2005 i think and they are still going strong. Offer pretty good flex and hav sagged maybe a little, but otherwise good. Ride quality isnt to bad either, they have well and truely outlasted the OME shocks i fitted at the same time, excellent value for money i say.