minvo

Hi all,

Had my first attempt at "car maintenance" on the S2000 tonight.....

Objective: Install some Sokie Tech Dampers that I purchased from Tawain (get me - ordering stuff off fleabay!)

Result: Failed.

It seems that after installing them (I thought correctly) the bonnet doesn't close properly. I get an arch from front to back.
I must have something in the wrong place or the wrong way round.

Can anyone assist?

It may be that Left is Right and Right is Left. I put the "Left" one on the right side of the car (left as I looked at the bonnet).

Minvo.

Bramblecat

Only ever seen them for the bonnet. Not seen them for the boot

minvo

Posted edited to Bonnet.

Chad!

If they came with little brackets, you may need to mess with the angles of them a little. Possibly wrong side, but I doubt it. I think some of them have adjustment so can be sorted.

Chad.

unclefester

Turn the dampers around so that they fit top to bottom from what the instructions suggest - they DO fit.

GaryB

Can you post pics of how you have them fitted?

Kitesurfer s2000

Rob 2.2 fitted mine and that happend its the brackets at the top mate round the wrong way .

GavB

Did you put it on like this? Look carefully, I know someone who looked at this picture for 10minutes before seeing the differece between what they had done and what the picture looked like!

samg1988

Mine are the same. Not had a chance to change it yet though.

My brackets are fitted as in that photo. From what I could tell, it was where they bolt into the wings that was the problem. The bolt with the round end that the damper snaps onto is too high I think. I took out a washer which helped a little... but not much.

PhilMartin

I fitted some of these recently. I found it easiest not to follow the instructions and just basically guess how they should fit. It worked a treat. Taking them apart more than the form they came in helped, especially when trying to 'squash' them by hand to screw the damper rods into place.