Just the front suspension I hear you say?
Well after a while I thought it would be rude to take the shocks out and not do anything with them so I thought I’d send them off to bilstein for a rebuild.
It would be daft to just send the fronts wouldn’t it?
So out came the rears….
I phoned Bilstein up and they said to bring them down (they are only in Leicester) so I drove down.
It was a big place and entered via a warehouse door. A polish guy asked if he could help and I said I’d brought my shocks to be rebuilt. He took the bag off me, plonked them on a shelf and started to walk off.
Bearing in mind we were in a warehouse the size of the one in Indiana Jones where they stored the ark of the covenant, my panic started to rise
“Woah, woah!” I said “I want speak to someone about them first. “OK’ he says “I go get manager”
Now I’m contemplating just walking out as my confidence is at rock bottom.
Then this guy comes out. I said I’ve bought the shocks in for rebuilding - he took them off me and said “Hmm, I can see you’re running your 911 lower than stock - that might be causing problems with the internal bump stop”
“How did you know they’re off a 911?” I asked. “It’s my job to know” he said. He really knew his stuff and my confidence was fully restored. I asked him to make the fronts a little softer. He said he would do that and also look at the internal bump stop to see if it was worth cutting it down.
He said it would be about 10 days. It’s actually been 4 weeks but he phoned me today to say they are ready for collection. He said they were really knackered - one of the fronts wasn’t doing any absorbing at all and it would just have hit the bump stop. And the rears were pretty knackered too. He said they were set to be quite hard too so he’s softened them to normal and said they are good as new now.
I’m going to collect them on Monday
Happy days
That’s enough for now - I’ll do some more updates over the next few days
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