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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LCP" data-source="post: 199797" data-attributes="member: 2424">Price is about there. Speedworks Penang turned around my Satria's Hotbits coilovers rebuild in just 2.5 hours last Thursday, amazing, that also included removing and reinstalling them back on to the car. Was there all the while to witness the whole process. They even gave me a printout of the actual setting that they dialed in... plenty of washers and shims used though, couldn't understand much of it, except a basic grasp of what each setting is all about. There are simply so many variables that can influence the performance of the shocks. Set something wrong and even though on the new ones where you can adjust the damping rate, you will be in for a funny ride no matter what you did... Mine is the older fixed damping rate type, anything wrong means a rebuild. Rebuild is RM80 per shock, but now they charge labour to remove and reinstall the shocks back, that's another RM80. Worked out to RM400 per rebuild. Photo of the shock settings, maybe some suspension experts here can explain a bit more about the settings, basically the rebound and compression rate is determined by the size and number of shims/washers, but there are still many factors to influence, eg. gas pressure, bleed ratio, etc:<img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/cplim/Hotbits/DSCN2530bHotbitssettings.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>