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'Reconditioned' Shocks?

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  • 26-03-2008 11:52pm
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    Conor, Fingal
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    Hi,
    A taxi driver told me the other day that it is possible to get reconditioned shocks (I should have asked where).

    Anyone know if this is possible? Dad says not likely and he's spent a lot of time under bonnets.

    I have a '97 Escort Mk6 requiring 4 new shocks, buying them new will cost more than the car is worth!

    Cheers,
    Conor


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    Avns1s
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    Well I'm around cars for a longer time than I'd like to admit to, and I've never heard of them.

    I've a very vague recollection (and again it could be mistaken) of being able to recondition the type of shocks used in certain Morris cars like the Ital etc. These cars used torsion bars rather than coil springs and had a particular type of front shock.

    Anyway, telescopic shocks are not that expensive.


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    galwaytt
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    Conor, Fingal wrote: »
    I have a '97 Escort Mk6 requiring 4 new shocks, buying them new will cost more than the car is worth!

    I dare say, 4 'reconditioned' shocks might be worth more than it too !:eek:


    Sorry - :o - but no such thing as 'recon' shocks.........for cars like this. High end stuff, maybe, but not run-of-the-mill cars.

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    mike65
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    Do you mean shocks (dampers) and not springs? Springs can be super-heated and regain thier bounce whereras dampers only come in two styles - new and used.

    Mike.


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    Oilrig
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    I know that dampers used in motorsport applications can sometimes be refurbed, but I very much doubt that the common or garden variety can.

    Urban Myth IYAM...


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    cantdecide
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    cost more than the car is worth

    I hate that phrase. If it's a generally a good car and I suspect you've had the car a while so why should you begrudge it. I've always said that maintenance works out to be a rate per mile and if you have had many trouble free miles, €100- €150 of shocks is hardly a stretch surely.


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    Rovi
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    Top-of-the-line motorsport shocks are most certainly rebuildable, but you're looking at mad money.
    This sort of thing-
    http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=MSPORT&pcode=SPXDA100/137

    The old lever-arm 'shocks' as fitted to Morris Minors and the like can also be rebuilt, but I doubt they're what the taxi pilot was talking about.


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    maidhc
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    cantdecide wrote: »
    I hate that phrase. If it's a generally a good car and I suspect you've had the car a while so why should you begrudge it. I've always said that maintenance works out to be a rate per mile and if you have had many trouble free miles, €100- €150 of shocks is hardly a stretch surely.

    I agree. What matters is what the car is worth to you, not the book value!


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    mike65
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Springs can be super-heated and regain thier bounce

    Should point out I was joking. :pac:

    Mike.


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    ianobrien
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    What about the old (very old!) trick of putting a grease nipple in the damper and putting grease in!

    I've seen it done to shocks in a car that new ones couldn't be bought at the motor factors. The only way of sorting it was to the likes of Gaz and getting them custom made!


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    Conor, Fingal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Conor, Fingal


    Cheers for putting me right people, and apologies for begrudging my poor Shcort! (Was replacing rear brakes in the driveway yesterday when the tinkers called around looking to take her off my hands....)

    Yes thought I'd rather look like an eejit over the internet than in a garage looking for cheapo shocks!

    And one thing I noted was that you can get through the NCT with battered shocks, so long as both sides are worn relatively similarly.


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