Now don't start me up about KYB and I don't agree with who ever said that Koni suck, and you don't buy them because the sales dickhead says they're the best because you can rebuild them, by the time you need to rebuild them it aint worth the trouble. I've got Koni in the Toy tank, the original oh what a feeling you beaut KYB's lasted 7 years which I suppose is average, I might have been a bit hard on KYB but when they died I got a genuine quote at $400 a corner ***sigh*** I looked up a mate who flogs Koni to the masses and they were $250 a corner and after 10 years of running they have just been adjusted up to 50% at xmas time for the annual haul of the family and camping stuff down the coast. There were no leaks or anything, although one of the piston bumpers on the rear is looking stressed and I must try to find some replacements - my experiences with Koni over the years have always been good. Tokico golds are supposed to be OK too, we run Alumina on the Sports Sedan which could even be the same thing - not sure. The other shocks for the rear of a 1600 that are the ducks guts are TRD off the AE86 Sprinter but these are extremely exy, magic shocks that you wont break and they're worn out when the valving gets noisy in cold weather, but in a 1600 who cares about a little more noise in the rear end.
regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cleary Signs Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cheap shock absorbers? Pedders up here in Brisbane are rip off's i would go for Tokico's , then GT monroe's, red pedders=repainted GT monroes? Heath ----- Original Message ----- From: nat P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:54 AM Subject: RE: Cheap shock absorbers? > Koni's / Peter Davis. BUT my Konis suck! Although my > car is a rally car! Hence things always cost a HUGE!! > > Pedders are decent street crap! It the best of the > bunch! > > IF I could not affords anything else. Thats what I > would go for. > > > > > --- Daniel Kroehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheap shock absorbers?After going through Monroes > > and then to Koni's, I > > reckon I'll never go back! The Koni's are just so > > much nicer than the cheap > > stuff. They have have far better control over the > > spring and I honestly > > believe that I now have much better handling and > > even a better ride quality > > as compared to the Monroe's that were previously > > installed. The monroes > > were installed new as well and had only done about > > 3000km of round town > > driving. > > > > Cheers > > > > Daniel Kroehn > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Ross Goddard > > Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 8:40 AM > > To: Ozdat (E-mail) > > Subject: Cheap shock absorbers? > > > > > > I think I need new shocks on the Stanza. > > Given that while I would like to get Konis,i > > cannot justify the $900 odd I > > was quoted from Top Performance. > > What are the best cheap shocks, i.e. Monroe GT > > Gas, Pedders?? Any others?? > > what are people using? > > > > Ross G > > > > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- > > OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- > > Send (un)subscribe requests to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No unauthorised redistribution of this email > > http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm > > http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- > > OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- > > Send (un)subscribe requests to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No unauthorised redistribution of this email > > http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm > > http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile > - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
