Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I said. I’m not asking for the best but most popular. For example a few years back everyone was fitting B14’s but since then loads of brands have come on the market which makes it confusing for the general public.
What I asked was what are each of you traders fitting more of?
If it’s a mixture and no clear favourite due to what people’s needs are then this puts my answer to bed.
Sorry for the confusion.
My most popular at the moment is anything from the SoLow range. They are outselling my other offerings by about 2 to 1 at the moment.
Taken on it's own though, that's a misleading statement. I tend to promote the lower vans, ride heights below what a shock and spring upgrade can offer, because that's the part of the industry that I'm most interested in. I love the look of a slammed van and it's what ultimately led my demo van to be on air (SoLow AIR).
As I promote my work on lower vans more than I do moderate lowering etc, it makes sense that the larger part of my customer base would be interested in the deeper drop coil overs, such as SoLow NSL and SoLow LOW. For reference, I call anything up to about 70mm moderate lowering!
I still offer a much wider variety of options than that though and I'm kept busy with the variety of work. Shock upgrades, lowering springs, coil overs (from KW, ST, SoLow, H&R etc). My heart will always be in the low stuff, but it's good to be able to cater for everyone. As an example, the ST-X are a fantastic value for money product and better than the OEM kit, but by spending a little more on the SoLow range, you're getting a better ride. If you want standard ride height and a ride improvement, then a shock upgrade from Koni might work. If you've got deep pockets and want the best available kit for moderate lowering with loads of adjustment on rebound and compression damping and value for money doesn't interest you then you can have KW V3.
That's still generalising though, it doesn't always work out that way for everyone.
The most popular product from any given business will always differ. Different businesses will promote different products for a variety of reasons. Some will be because it's their own product, so of course they'll recommend that over something else. Some will go with the biggest margin products. Some will go with recommending what they can because they don't have access to the huge range that others do. That's what makes it so difficult to know what is genuinely the best. You'll have different manufacturers/distributors recommending their products over anything else. You'll have some taking a swipe at competitors products to promote their own and vice-versa.
Then somewhere in amongst all that noise, you'll have companies like mine, who recommend what they think is right for each application, without any agenda to promote specific products over another, just what is right for each customer.
