Cooksport Review

Had my springs fitted on Saturday and have a few days to form and opinion on them now.

It wasn't through choice that I put them on as my old ones were knackered. I have never been a fan of the idea of lowering springs as I like the oem set up and matched spring/damper rates but I didn't fancy paying Renault prices for OE springs.

First of all, the delivery was incredibly fast, ordered them at 2pm on Wednesday and they were on my doorstep at 10am Thursday, so that was a good start.

Had them fitted by my local garage along with new top mounts and Initial impressions when pootling round town were that they were only a little firmer than standard and certainly didn't make the car too jarring like I feared they might.

Then today I had the chance to extend the car along some local technical and bumpy b-roads and I am over the moon with how the car drives. The initial turn-in has become a lot more direct and accurate due to less weight transfer/roll and braking stability is fantastic with no squirming or wriggling around on the brakes - the car now stays very true.

My next fear was that the car would follow through onto its bump stops due to less travel, but it seems cooksport have made the last few inches of the spring very firm and supportive so I never once crashed onto the bump stops through compression and there was no splitter/road interaction. The standard dampers do a great job of keeping things composed as well, despite me be worried that the car would feel under-damped and pogo a lot b

Overall I would say that it's nearly a draw-back free upgrade if you can sacrifice a tiny bit of rife quality and a bit of cash.

Cheers for reading, here's a pic of them fitted, hard to make out with dark wheels on a dark car but it looks great in the flesh.

 

Yeah will do when I pop out next mate, no problem. I took this the other day but it's not great.

 

Car looks lovely just that Ek. My 225 was ub. Wish my R26 was!