Leon Cupra XYZ Racing Coilovers fitted (with pics)

Al

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Dont you get scuffing with the car being so low and the wheels so wide?
 

bizzaboy

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Beautiful ! :) ALOT of money spent however on converting that standard Cupra to how it looks now.
 

Carr20vt

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Originally Posted by Poverty
I want. No word of price on their site.

Have noticed on the contact us bit that all the employees seem to be females with english names although its a taiwanese company

I deal with alot of them and they all have English names: Dennis, Wayne, Hannah, Ashley, Frank, Bob, etc.
 

bizzaboy

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Originally Posted by Poverty
I want. No word of price on their site.

Have noticed on the contact us bit that all the employees seem to be females with english names although its a taiwanese company

I deal with alot of them and they all have English names: Dennis, Wayne, Hannah, Ashley, Frank, Bob, etc.

They do this, the eastern countries (Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese), when they have any association with a western country, be it over here studying, or living for a period of time, they give themselves a "european" name, for whatever reason.

My partner, when she was studying at a College, a number of Japanese friends all had english first names! :D strange.

Anyway, back on topic, this isn't a Cupra, is it an FR (looking at the original front bumper)?
 

raisin

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Dont you get scuffing with the car being so low and the wheels so wide?

Not at all - even on bumpy roads.

Before fitting the coilovers, that's what I thought, considering original ET is 51 with 7.5J, but then again the standard wheel sits far too much inside and the car sits way too high
 

raisin

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[B said:
Anyway, back on topic, [/B]this isn't a Cupra, is it an FR (looking at the original front bumper)?


This is a Cupra...what exactly on the original front bumper makes you say that it isnt??
 

raisin

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That is very true lol. although they look nice, I wouldn't trust them tbh. I wouldn't buy anything that is not German TUV approved.

They are TUV approved. See pic of the box below:

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Poverty

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They do this, the eastern countries (Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese), when they have any association with a western country, be it over here studying, or living for a period of time, they give themselves a "european" name, for whatever reason.

My partner, when she was studying at a College, a number of Japanese friends all had english first names! :D strange.

Anyway, back on topic, this isn't a Cupra, is it an FR (looking at the original front bumper)?

Nope its a cupra. got standard cupra front bumper, and you can also see the big brakes.
 

bizzaboy

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Nope its a cupra. got standard cupra front bumper, and you can also see the big brakes.

So on the Leon FR and Leon Cupra, the front bumpers are exactly the same then, apart from the Cupra has the centre bottom section painted Black??

See, coming from the Mk4 Ibiza stable, the Cupra front bumper has straighter fog light sections in the front bumper - whereas on the FR they were more rounded at the top!
I naturally thought on the MK2 Leons, SEAT used this same styling difference to tell the Two (Cupra / FR) apart! Obviously not - they have got lazy on the Leon! :D

Sorry for the mis-understanding :think: - as i stated in my original post - great car. ;)
 
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raisin

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where are the light washers???

Look on the first pic with original bumper - they were there. When I fitted the K1, decided not to put the light washers back because I dont want to accidently spray methanol on the lights and bonnet. Don't really need the light washers in SA - it doesnt snow, and car gets washed once a week