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SriAndi
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Registered: 25th Jun 02
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30th May 03 at 21:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Hi

How much am I looking at? Excluding the springs, and what do i need? can i just change the springs or do i need a full kit?

cheerz
andi
Kris TD
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30th May 03 at 22:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

about 40 quid an hour i would say.
Makarus
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30th May 03 at 23:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

The best quote I got was £100 that was for taking the standard shite off, then putting the new kit on, then tracking it.

But I did it myself, and the tracking is fine.
miles
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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31st May 03 at 00:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

£100 to change some springs?

Around here you pay about £20-£25 an hour labour, wont take anyone with 2 arms more than 2 hours with the right tools.

You only need springs, if thats what you want.
Xs
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31st May 03 at 00:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i was quoted 80quid to fit my springs!
Makarus
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31st May 03 at 08:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Well thats the quote that I got for full suspension change, and just changing the springs really involves almost as much work, easier and quicker to do on the back but the front still needs compressing and shit.

I just fitted my own.
PeteMTBer
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31st May 03 at 09:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

£75 to fit shocks and springs.

The tracking was fine.

Pete
BabyBlade
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Registered: 5th Feb 03
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31st May 03 at 10:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

40 quid for springs n dampers
chapip
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31st May 03 at 10:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i paid £70 2 have springs fitted.
SriAndi
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31st May 03 at 12:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Chapip, u from doncaster? if so where did u go to get them fitted?
corsa_lad
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31st May 03 at 12:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

LOL ur all getting ur asses raped if u give them the kit its only labour £20 for mine by one of the best places in glasgow
Rob R
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31st May 03 at 14:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

my friend works in garage so fitted them after hours for the price of a pint of stella! bargin! haha
jmucorsasport
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Registered: 28th May 02
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31st May 03 at 16:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

mine cost £90 that was takin the old shocks off an putting new springs an shocks on ABP motorsport in crewe very good service well happy with results as i dropped 60mm
scotty19
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31st May 03 at 17:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Better off doing it urself mate, i've just replaced my 2 front springs in about 4hrs(i'm not the most mechanically minded person in the world) doing the rear 2morrow.
Kris TD
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31st May 03 at 18:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

did my whole lot in an hours, its dead simple, only slightly tricky, well not tricky just hard is the top nut on the front shocks, mainly because its done up so bloody tight.
Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
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31st May 03 at 18:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I just lowered my front 60mm today with apex shocks and springs and the tracking is fine. Just couldnt do the rear as the nut on the shock was hard to undo and was getting more and more fcuked the harder we tried to turn it.

How much would i be looking at for just the rears to be done? shocks and springs??
Kris TD
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31st May 03 at 19:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

erm do the springs yourself, its a case of undoing the btoom of the shocks, taking the springs out and then putting them bk in, takes 10 mins top.

as for the shocks, yeah mine where done up pretty tight, managed it in the end with some funky adjustable spanner which my dad has.
Kris TD
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31st May 03 at 19:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

oh just thought, if you have new shocks then just cut the nut off with a hacksaw, they should provide you with new ones
Nath
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31st May 03 at 22:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I bought the shocks and springs from someone on here, not entirely sure if they provided me with new nuts. If they do then i may well do the rears myself too. Never thought of hacking the bastard off
luca2020
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Registered: 26th May 02
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31st May 03 at 23:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

it makes me laugh when people say 'that included them taking the old stuff out and putting the new stuff in'

lol how the fuck were they surposed to put the new stuff in anyway
M2RTY
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1st Jun 03 at 07:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

tracking is always fine - its the camber you should be worried about
dannycorsa c
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Registered: 8th Mar 03
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1st Jun 03 at 12:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

do the back urself and get a garage to do the front thats what i did.got vaux to do the front wwhen it went in for service.

 
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