Is it more effort than its worth doing it yourself? or should i just pay to have them fitted?

Fit them yourself and save some money, get the car alligned at a garage though.

Will look into it . guessing its a few hours or so work?

I'd say get them fitted but if you're good with those sort of things do it yourself. If you've got your own springs then you may have the same problem I had...which was that garages don't like fitting springs they don't supply. They're quite happy if they can charge you expensive prices to buy the springs and then have them fitted. But if you bring your own they don't want to hear about it. I must have checked with 10+ garages and not one would do it the moment I said I had the springs. In the end I got some help from my Dad and we did them. My Dad is much better with these things than I am but he is no mechanic and it took us a whole Saturday to do. I then took it to a garage and got them to align the wheels and all that. Charged me £50 for that which seems expensive but oh well.

for the price of spring clamps and a jack etc I thought i may as well just pay a garage to do mine- only cost £60 as well

Oh right i'll have a look into this stuff! Theres a garage right next to my firm so might ask him for a quote

Didmt realise you had to get the wheels re-aligned

I got mine checked after fitting the springs and it was fine.

Get them done by a pro............ at least for peace of mind

I'll decide when I get a quote for it all :L. can anyone recommend which ones to buy?

Gonna make a set of wheel spacers at work when i get these too, how do you get over the stud length problem with the spacers??

took me about 2 hours with wills help to lower a fiesta a couple of weekends ago

eibach springs are most common on here
that's what I have too

Eibachs or Spax mate

Thanks . Had a look at the eibach and they are cheap compared to what i expected