Leda closing down, for anyone who cares :P

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There was an article in this months performance gti that gave them very very bad press. Doubt it was anything to do with it but just basically stated fitting leda coilovers to a 172 Cup ruined the handling of the car.
 
'tis a shame.

Drove a modified Sprint on Ledas, handled very well indeed - but at 1600 quid for the shocks (may have even been the price just for a pair, my mind fails me!), that was to be bloody expected :D
 
I used them once as they were highly recommended for the ZR at the time.

I am not overly surprised they are in trouble though, they didn't know how to check and adjust the VX suspension and diagnosed an incorrectly bent wishbone. They had also been asked to develop something for the VX but didn't seem too interested in what is a very open market.
 
They were never the cheapest, hand built and all that.

The build quality on some units wasn't the best, but when they got it right it totally transformed the ride and handlign of some cars.

Funyn that it got bad press on a Clio, all but 1 person over on Cliosport rates them extremely highly, quite a few guys there have paid the 1200 odd quid for a set.

Always a shame to see a company go under though. That's assuming it is actually goin gunder.
 
you never know the private politics, they may simply have got in to debts they cant pay and are looking to wipe the slate clean.
 
My mate spent a fortune on Leda suspension for his nova gte some years back - and my standard allegro ran rings round it :D

I tried to get a couple of quotes out of them once for custom shocks and they just gave me the runaround. Shame cos they're local, and generally had a good rep.
 
Nooooooooooooo we lose another of the genuinely helpful little firms in this country :(

Whenever I went there there were a selection of old guys in labcoats with rollups, really knew their stuff. I am actually in shock but at the end of the day rising costs for small businesses has ultimately been their demise I expect and unless they are prepared to sell out with the likes of Demon Tweeks most of these niche markets and small tuning houses are certain to die. I am surprised Burton Power has survived as long as it has but it has had to expand its market well away from what they used to do.
 
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