AVO Coilovers

[texas2201]

Last year I fitted AVO coilovers all round. I fitted the rears myself. The fronts I had fitted by a garage at the same time as a lot of other work. Has any one else fitted these? The rears can be adjusted for rebound by crawling under the car and adjusting them. The fronts require you to take the wheel off to adjust - I asked the garage about this and their response was that was the only way to fit them! I asked PNM who I bought them from for their opinion/suggestion/help....... after about 3 to 4 emails and no response I have given up waiting for a response from them?????

Anyone got a different experience of these front AVO's?

[Steve A]

I'm in the process of fitting AVO's all round.
I've fitted mine with the adjustment screw pointing outwards (see photo below) you can just see the silver ring surrounding the screw.
This seems like the easiest way to get to the screw (using a 4mm allen key).
It's not as easy to get at as the rears and I've not tried to adjust it with or without the wheel,
but that's because as I said I'm still in the process and I don't envisage altering that much.
I think Dave Pink might chime in soon as he has AVO's

[texas2201]

I'm in the process of fitting AVO's all round.
I've fitted mine with the adjustment screw pointing outwards (see photo below) you can just see the silver ring surrounding the screw.
This seems like the easiest way to get to the screw (using a 4mm allen key).
It's not as easy to get at as the rears and I've not tried to adjust it with or without the wheel,
but that's because as I said I'm still in the process and I don't envisage altering that much.
I think Dave Pink might chime in soon as he has AVO's

this is how mine are fitted

[dapinky]

To be honest, I can't remember which way round mine are fitted, it's so long ago that I set it all up

Clearly, they can be fitted in 2 different ways, simply by turning the lower body through 180 degrees..... but I don't know if the adjustment screw is more easily accessible with it pointing inboard or outboard......

[Steve A]

To be honest, I can't remember which way round mine are fitted, it's so long ago that I set it all up

Clearly, they can be fitted in 2 different ways, simply by turning the lower body through 180 degrees..... but I don't know if the adjustment screw is more easily accessible with it pointing inboard or outboard......

The way I looked at it was: outwards you can see what your doing and get to the screw, inwards you can't

I once had some fancy adjustable shocks on another car, you could easily adjust them from the inside boot and bonnet, I never touched them.

[Saltire]

FWIW, I have my Avos set +1 from full soft, which seems to me to be roughly equivalent to OEM spec. Ride height was set according to the specs in the manual, with a very slight tweak for corner weights.

They’ve been on the car for four years, and I’ve never felt the need to change the original setup.

[texas2201]

Thanks for the replies guys - guess I'll leave them as they are and just take the wheels off to Adjust

[dapinky]

For what it's worth, I seem to remember that it was actually easier to get to the adjustment with the weight of the car on the wheels, due to the suspension movement....

[texas2201]

For what it's worth, I seem to remember that it was actually easier to get to the adjustment with the weight of the car on the wheels, due to the suspension movement....

Thanks - Even though the adjuster is facing outwards?

[dapinky]

Sorry Martin, as mentioned earlier, I can't remember which way mine faces.... but unless you are regularly changing the settings, once they're where you want them, it doesn't matter.

[Steve A]

As I was finishing the last corner today I thought I'd take a few photo's to demonstrate the access to the adjustment screw, or lack of it.

Car jacked suspension hanging, although slightly awkward I don't see this as a problem.



Car down suspension jacked (as if the wheel was there) didn't really make much difference.



With the 4mm allen key in position



My conclusion is that it is better to have the adjustment screw pointing outwards,
based on the fact that you can see what your doing when your adjusting it.
A shorter allen key would probably be advantageous so you miss the driveshaft.

[texas2201]

Thanks Steve - I'll be home later this week and will be doing a number of jobs on it - inc this