Suspension Options

[e46m3c]

Morning Chaps,

Need to sort the suspension out on the Tuscan and wondered what peoples recommendations are.

Currently running AST which i find a little hard, they are leaking.

So option 1 is replace AST shocks.
2 Replace with OEM / Bilstein

further options?

Mainly road, weekend, alpine roadtrip usage so dont need to be hard. Prefer stability and predictability.

[e46m3c]

Option 3. GAZ Gold - I had these on my old m3 trackcar. Whilst not exactly luxry they were great and made a massive improvement to lap time.

[e46m3c]

Think im leaning towards the gaz gold.

Just hope they arent too stiff on a long road trip. 400/325 springs.

Same as pro tech i think.

[e46m3c]

Anyone know the springrate for the AST kit RG sell?

[e46m3c]

Thanks for the feedback.

It would seem gaz and protec are a similar product so have been discounting protec due to the increased cost.

Looks like i can get my AST's refurbished for about the same price as new Gaz.

Anyone compared AST to GAZ in either direction? AST are mono Gaz are twin but it seems neither is defactor better.

What longevity are people getting? These AST have only achieved 4 years/20k miles (not under my ownership)...Not sure if that is normal?

[e46m3c]

gone for the gaz. Fitting on the 9th. which gives me 10 days of shakedown before alps trip.

[e46m3c]

Will do.

Ive bought the car with shagged suspension so i dont really know what AST feel like when good.

Perhaps ill do a back to back comparison.

AST are 450, gaz are 400 spring rate. So probably gaz a little more GT