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Is This The Knob To Adjust Damping Rate On Tein Ss Coilovers? (pic)

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nah it was piece of piss! the back seat just lifted out.

didn't realise it was such an easy task to adjust damper, i thought i'd be more work. made my rears softer and the ride is much nicer.

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in mine on the drivers side there's a bracket thats in the way and i have to squeeze my hand in there to turn it...

yeah it's pretty good being able to change the feel of the car in 10 min's...

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ne 1 know if this is the same for HKS shocks??? i have no idea how they are set atm and wanna make sure there even. so is it just a matter of clockwise untill it stops??? and then back how ever many clicks i want????

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It's pretty simple guys, don't have to jack up the car or anything. Just pop your bonnet and turn the knobs by hand, counter clockwise for soft, clockwise for hard. You will need to take out the rear seat for access to the rears, as they sit under the parcel shelf. My Jap-spec SS actually have 24 positions so the 16 position rule didn't really help me...I just turned the knob softly until I got to the end of its travel, then turned it a single click in the other direction to make sure it was sitting in a proper click (hard to explain, but the end of the knob's travel is actually half a clicl so I didn't want to leave it on this...you'll see what I mean if you do it my way).

P.S. all coilovers have their own way of adjusting damper, but it is typically done via a knob on top of the strut. Koni's and Teins use clockwise / counter clockwise setups, as do many other brands. In contrast, my GAB coilovers used a 4 position knob that didn't matter how many times you turned it, all that mattered was which colour the arrow was pointing to...whilst the rears had knobs at the bottom of the struts with numbers on them for level of firmness, saving you from having to pull out the rear seat for access to a knob on top of the strut.

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