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[petercronin]

So I’m planning on a bit of a suspension refresh soon when I buy some B14’s as it’s not feeling quite as good as it used to.

Question is, an oem arb link from renaultpartsdirect costs £57 (so £114 for both) whereas Kam sells a SuperPro adjustable arb link set for similar money. Reading the sales write up makes it sound like a sensible purchase, has anybody used them or know its worthwhile bothering baring in mind they cost more or less the same?

Also note Im probably not going to be messing around with suspension set up etc for the amount of trackdays I do (certainly not in the short term) and I’m not looking to knock milliseconds off a lap time.

Here is it:
https://www.kamracing.co.uk/car-tun...ault-clio-mk3-superpro-arb-drop-link-kit.html

 

[PAUL JA]

How about £30 for something like these

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FOR-RENA...779626&hash=item27e9e228fe:g:UVEAAOSwbqpT9IpR

 

[petercronin]

How about £30 for something like these

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FOR-RENA...779626&hash=item27e9e228fe:g:UVEAAOSwbqpT9IpR

I think I'd rather buy the genuine ones to be honest, even though they do cost more. Well that's unless these are genuine ones in different packaging.

 

[J90RDN]

Got mine from Eurocarparts. I remember changing the ARB drop links and the stabiliser links for both sides and the total cost came in at around £50.

In my opinion really is no point insisting on genuine when OEM will be just as good. My car handles like it's on rails on track, so I know they are more than up to the job.

 

[Pav]

there is 1 or 2 makes that i would stay away from but in general,you dont need to go for a genuine items..
not sure which brands they were though..

 

[Arch]

Wish I had seen this before ordering new genuine renault drop links and anti rotation links ouch

 

[petercronin]

I’m not saying that oem quality ones won’t perform as intended but I feel there’s always some doubt as to how long they’ll last compared to a genuine one.


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[Arch]

OEM quality items will always perform but there are often performance companies producing better items just have not seen anything better yet but in terms of the drop links I bet the pattern parts last a similar length of time

I’m not saying that oem quality ones won’t perform as intended but I feel there’s always some doubt as to how long they’ll last compared to a genuine one.


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I’m not saying that oem quality ones won’t perform as intended but I feel there’s always some doubt as to how long they’ll last compared to a genuine one.


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[J90RDN]

OEM quality items will always perform but there are often performance companies producing better items just have not seen anything better yet but in terms of the drop links I bet the pattern parts last a similar length of time

Yep, agree. Renault won't be looking to put the most expensive, exotic parts on something like a Clio - it will be cost vs quality trade-off. Paying £114 for an ARB drop-link is madness, just because at some point 10 years ago a bean-counter in France decided to go with a particular company, but each to their own I guess.

 

[petercronin]

Fair points there I suppose. I hadn’t looked around at other options just went straight to rpd for a price for comparison.

So back to the original question, I take it nobody has heard anything about the SuperPro link? I’m far from being an expert on car setup but from what I can understand it makes sense to not put a preload on the arb when lowering a car. Which if you keep using standard links will happen. But saying all that, mines lowered (H&R springs) at the moment and other than a terrible ride I can’t tell that there’s any detrimental effects to not having the arb set up correctly.


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[Arch]

I don' know about this particular link but I know the superpro stuff for the impreza wasn' very highly thought of and I certainly wouldnt pay that for them

 

[PAUL JA]

Fair points there I suppose. I hadn’t looked around at other options just went straight to rpd for a price for comparison.

So back to the original question, I take it nobody has heard anything about the SuperPro link? I’m far from being an expert on car setup but from what I can understand it makes sense to not put a preload on the arb when lowering a car. Which if you keep using standard links will happen. But saying all that, mines lowered (H&R springs) at the moment and other than a terrible ride I can’t tell that there’s any detrimental effects to not having the arb set up correctly.


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Personally unless you are spending hours tweeking suspension I don't see that adjustable drop links are necessary

You mention pre-load when lowered - I may be being daft here (its an age thing) but if both drop links are the same length there would be no pre-load ! Please correct me if I'm wrong

 

[petercronin]

Personally unless you are spending hours tweeking suspension I don't see that adjustable drop links are necessary

You mention pre-load when lowered - I may be being daft here (its an age thing) but if both drop links are the same length there would be no pre-load ! Please correct me if I'm wrong

I think (from my understanding of it anyway I may be wrong) that when you lower a car and don’t change anything else both drop links are effectively longer than they need to be and are pushing on both sides of the arb all of the time meaning it’s taking some of the cars weight all of the time rather than just when cornering.

Say you lower the car by 30mm the drop links are now 30mm longer than they need to be when weight on wheels. Meaning the arb neutral position is now offset (maybe not by 30mm depending on what sort of arc it travels through) but it’s still not in the place it was designed to be in.

I am leaning towards not bothering with this and staying standard as it seems ok at the minute and nobody else seems to have bothered. But I was just wondering if anybody had.


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[Arch]

The drop links should be set up with weight on the car, links disconnected and then set so there is no preload with normal static ride hide that you have set.