KW v3 vs bilstein b16 pss10?

[fattycharged]

Any recollection how you have yours setup? I need to play around with mine

No recollection, been over a decade.


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[bigjae46]

I've found KW cars to be very rough. I think they design for EU roads being a german company.

If you can spring for it, TC Klines are a great entry level coilover. I had Bilstein PSS many years ago and I liked them. Obviously, there are a better performing coilovers but they did well for a dual duty car.

[Cubieman]

+1 for TCK's, the SA's I think are a nice upgrade, especially from my BC's.

That said I wish I would have just got Ohlin's, this is a place where it's good to spend on a good setup as installing/tweaking the setup takes time plus a potential alignment all adds up.

[cobra]

Just looking at the V3 Front...

It has a large adjustment range with a digressive valve stack on both compression and rebound.

Looking at just the "middle" setting. There is some hysteresis as is typical with a shock with such a wide adjustment range. But certainly nothing out of the ordinary like that V4 dyno curve above.


By comparison, a Koni Sport (yellow) makes far less compression damping than the KW and only has rebound adjustment. To me this explains why it blows through the travel so easily but also feels comfortable on a smoother road or during casual driving.