Godspeed monomax coilovers

[TylerLieberman]

Originally Posted by Dee

Hey sorry,

My goal is to lower the car with little loss to ride quality.
It’s not for performance.

If ride quality is a concern, look elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Dee

I also threw up a thread on reddit and have someone saying godspeed’s are bad quality.

I mean... they aren't wrong. Godspeed is shit. $1,000 coilovers are fairly subpar in most cases... so Imagine something that's even cheaper. Don't be a cheap ass. Save your money for something of good quality and buy once.

Better yet, if don't want to spend much more, go with something like these: http://www.ft86speedfactory.com/st-s...E#.Wj23bCOZN24

They're basically KW V1s with preset damping adjustments. They don't go as low as some of those other manufacturers, but so long as you aren't trying to slam the car, it isn't really an issue.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Teseo

I heard new corollas transmissions are made in mexico, sealed where you cant rebuild them and just throw away and new required.

We are in a global market and where something is made no longer means much. What does matter is who makes it. I have worked in the Tier One automotive parts manufacturing business for 28 years and have seen massive changes over the decades. My employer for several years now has 230 plants and 20 development centers spread across 40 countries. Each and every one of those plants must conform to the exact same safety, quality and production standards whether they are in Mexico, China or the USA. This same thing applies to any of the larger OEM manufactures so location does not mean inferior components or products. The days of lower quality OEM products made in such places as Mexico are long gone.

Now, that said, location still plays a huge part in the cheap knockoff or aftermarket industry. There are still several countries where proprietary design, patents and copywrites mean nothing. These are the places that will produce total junk for very cheap prices and pawn them off as named items. They can not get away with it in the USA, Canada, or much of Western Europe so you generally don't see that type of garbage made in those locations. Many of those places can even be owned and operated by some of the bigger name companies but rest assured just because it bears there name it does not mean that it is the same quality as the rest of their products.

The OEM products are watched very, very, VERY closely by the automotive companies contracting for the parts but there is no such surveillance on the aftermarket. When you consider just how many bad parts can slip through the tight system for the OEMs (there was a little thing with airbags you may have heard of) just imagine what goes through the aftermarket and nobody really know or cares as long as they can get those cheapass parts that are all they can afford.