Hey guys,

I bought a set of tein superstreet coilovers for my r32 gtr off a company advertised in these forums, the coilovers which they have sent me have a varying number of damper positions. As the seller has chosen to ignore me and refuses to send me a receipt I would appreciate some help. The front right has 27 positions, rear right has 30, front left has 30 and back left has 28.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Cheers,

Steve

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Hi Steve, I have never used Tein Super Streets (and probably never will) but based on my experience it's not unusual to feel the clicks differently. The first and sometimes second click are actually seating rotations, they don't change the preload on the shim stack. Hence they don't alter the damping. One of our race team cars has Tein N1's (I had no choice) and what I do is set the damping from the highest position downwards. That's fully clockwise on the adjuster until it hits the stop, then count the anticlockwise clicks from there. That avoids the problem of starting from the soft (fully anticlockwise) position where you get minor seating variations that make it hard to accurately count the clicks. Depending on how sensitive your feel is, you can generally pick up on the lack of resistence in the first one or two clicks, that's the lack of full seating.

I have confirmed the above on the shock dyno, as I can't afford to confuse the driver with different settings side to side.

Cheers
Gary

Possibly one of the discs inside the adjustable piston is seized.