We fitted the V-MAXX coilovers as soon as everybody else had them sat in their front rooms, but thought we would give them a bit of time out on the road.
Anyway they are a doddle to fit clocking us just over 3 hours to fit including replacing wishbone bushes, drop links and bottom ball joints and rod ends so as long as everything goes to plan and you or your garage have had a few T5's apart it should take 2 hours if theres someone to give you a hand with the heavy bits.
They have lowered the van -75mm on the rear and approx 55mm on the front, ours is a 1.9 version and a good friend of ours has assured his has dropped down approx 70mm proberbly due to the extra 80 kg weight difference with the 2.5 tdi.
Out on the road the van is much more composed than before when we had just -60mm springs with stock dampers, the ride is much more forgiving than on springs and i now like driving the T5 again, i haven't bothered trying out the 20 odd different settings on the dampers i will leave that to some keyboard jockey on a forum but at the end of the day i dont think a change in rebound dampening is going to turn a van in to a Caterham.
To summerise- A good set up for the money,Your not going to win any lowrider competions with them but it will bring the van closer to the floor than standard and it will handle better after fitting them.
Sure ours sat 12mm lower on the front on our old springs but i will let that one go as i can now drive srtaight over speed bumps instead of zig zagging them .
If you want to go lower then buy some H&R coilovers off us for £1500 and then you can brag to your forum buddies how low your van is and how much better off you are than others !!!
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