Tte Springs

[Nick_Simm]

I bought some TTE springs for my 54 plate Yaris on eBay recently and was thinking of putting them on this weekend. My question is are they worth putting on? I want to improve the cornering, but I won't bother fitting if they just make the car look lower.

Has anyone had them fitted and can reccomend them (or warn me off them)?

I appreciate any replies, but I only bought the springs because they were £25. I don't want to spark a debate over whether Tein or Eibach are better as it'll either be TTE or nothing.

Cheers

[BLiTZ]

a few members have them fitted and say theyre great but if youre not convinced im sure theres loads of peeps wiling to take them off your hands :P ;)

[minidoughty]

heres one for a start!!!

[Chuck04]

Dont fit them, IMO they are no better than the standard springs, they literally just lower the car. I currently have them on mine and even with a front upper strut brace the body roll is terrible.. im hoping to shift mine as soon as i can. Ive used both Gmax and TTE and driven cars with tein springs and tein coileys.. The Gmax springs i had previous to the TTE, althought nothing on coilovers, dramatically reduce body roll when comparing to stock or TTE

My advice would to go with the Tein, or gmax, both lower the car around the same noticable amount, id say the tein are better springs but tad more expensive than the Gmax.

You did buy them for an ace price, i say put them on eBay.. you could probably make at least £50 on them.

Oh and to help reduce roll get yourself a front and rear upper strut brace

[alanbradley]

Well... I have them and I think they've dramatically reduced body roll compared to the suspension on a non-T-Sport Yaris without being crazy, unnecessary harsh.

I did have an issue with the front end bobbing at speed, but lower profile tyres on bigger wheels have sorted that beautifully and aesthetically the car so many 10s of times better looking (all the ones in the Yaris catalogues have thing if you look closely ;) )

I say go for it...

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[clarky]

Alan - did you ever get the brace fitted?

Id fit them - if you're not happy swap them out again ...

[Ryan1985]

I'd say 100% worth it, anything is better than stock and it reduced bodyroll in my brothers T-Sport!

[alanbradley]

Alan - did you ever get the brace fitted?

Id fit them - if you're not happy swap them out again ...

erm... no...

This week's excuse is that I snaped the chuck off my drill last weekend dis-assembling the 2cv...

Clarky's right though...

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[Nick_Simm]

Well that's 5 for and 1 against. The yay's have it at the moment. If you have any really strong objections, let me know, otherwise I'll get cracking on them in the morning.

[Yaris SR Kid]

My SR has TTE written on the springs. Are we talking about the same springs here? if so my suspension is good through corners not that im comparing it to anything! :P

[DaveSR]

My SR has TTE written on the springs. Are we talking about the same springs here? if so my suspension is good through corners not that im comparing it to anything! :P

Nah they are different .... at first we thought they was the same but the original TTE lowers the car alot more compaired to the SR TTE springs

[Nick_Simm]

Well I stuck them on. The instructions said it'd take 2 hours and so I was thinking maybe 2-3 hours for me to fit them. Took 9 hours of solid grafting to get the buggers on. I've now got bruises and cuts all the way down my arms.

Still, they seem to work a bit better than standard. I'll let them settle in a bit more before I come up with a final verdict. If you're thinking of fitting them yourself, make sure you've got all the tools handy, or better still, get someone else to do them.