So TSW says that their KWs were specially tuned with KWs help. Therefore, they should be better than the normal KWs. In theory.

Has anybody used either set? Anyone used both and can compare? Anyone know specifically what is different.

Basically, I'm still trying to decide what coilovers I want, if I can justify the price... KWs are high on the list. I've heard nothing but good and if they are good enough the the Challenge cars, they are probably a good choice...

Anyway, opinions...?


Thanks in advance.

 

Call TSW and ask them.

 

Well that certainly makes sense...

I'm asking for customer reviews. I want more information than just what the vendor tells me...

 

My KW's started leaking after a few months. Doing a search now on different makes I realize that it's common with KW. They charge $185 per shock to be rebuild so if I could do it again, I would just saved a bit more and bought something else.

 

Granted, owner reviews are great but I doubt you are going to get any info from folks that have had both.

TSW will be able to give you a very unbiased breakdown on the differences. They spent a lot of time with KW developing the coilovers. This is why they stopped carrying AST.

 

KW worked with TSW to get the spring rates set, not sure if they worked on rebound too, to get a killer setup that would work well for your given application. They did quite a bit of track testing, so if you're going to track your car, personally the TSW KW's are the way to go IMHO.

I bought the KW V2's from TSW, although not installed yet (very soon though). One of the advantages of buying from TSW is the amount of support and information you can get from those guys--I pretty much got the setup of the dampers and ride height from Mike, or at least a good place to start. These guys know what they're doing, and I'll usually buy from a vendor with great support and be willing to pay a little more for it rather than looking for the rock bottom price (provided it's within reason). But the work the KW/TSW did specifically for the MINI for me makes it worth getting the setup from TSW.

 

A guy in our club bought the KW V2's from KW, the springs were so soft, he could literally could not put anything in the back of his car, it would rub the tires. He got the replacment springs from TSW and is ok now Thinking he should have gone with TSW first off

 

Sweet, thanks for the feedback. And I do plan on calling TSW as well.

The leaking thing has me a tad worried. Anybody else heard about leaking KWs?

 

And whats funny is, KW's west coast operations is 10 miles away from us and they couldn't help him

 

I'm interested in hearing the differences as well since I'm also in the market for some KW V1's.

 

I bought the first pair of KW V2's for an R56 from TSW. I regularly track my car (6 events since the KW's) and have had zero issues with them. I don't know for sure, but I think TSW just modified the spring/rates.

Unfortunately I don't have any other personal experience with other coilovers for the Mini, but I am super happy with my KW's.