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fenlander Member Since: 14 Jan 2020 Location: Norfolk Posts: 124 |
The temperature factor makes sense and to be fair to JLR/Dunlop, the struts removed from mine have a 2002 date stamp so may be the original factory units, so 18 years and 128k miles is not so bad after all!
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19th Jan 2020 12:49pm |
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paulbrown22 Member Since: 23 Dec 2017 Location: London/Poole Posts: 352 |
Hmmm, I thought mine were pretty well boxed up and surrounded by bits of packaging material, but it was still DPD - maybe I was lucky! |
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19th Jan 2020 1:11pm |
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fenlander Member Since: 14 Jan 2020 Location: Norfolk Posts: 124 |
I think you were lucky, mine arrived in a flimsy thin walled cardboard box with a couple of bog roll tubes over the black metal sidearms and a piece of tissue paper laid on top - the entire strut was able to rattle around and rotate inside the box so much so that the top studs had indented the cardboard box end as well as breaking the brass nipple off, all it would have taken to avoid this problem is for the box to have been opened before shipment and filled with some extra packing but this didn't happen.
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20th Jan 2020 3:04am |
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TDSIX Member Since: 18 Feb 2017 Location: Stirlingshire Posts: 210 |
How is anyone getting on with this problem of ours? My car was booked into the garage yesterday but they told me it'd be next week before they could look at it. 2010 FF 4.4 TDV8 Vogue - Gone
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24th Jan 2020 9:56pm |
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fenlander Member Since: 14 Jan 2020 Location: Norfolk Posts: 124 |
Got two new front struts fitted to mine last week and so far all good... if that's what you mean? |
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24th Jan 2020 10:38pm |
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paulbrown22 Member Since: 23 Dec 2017 Location: London/Poole Posts: 352 |
I did my struts last weekend, and very happy it's stayed fully inflated all week as it always used to, without being used since Sunday.
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24th Jan 2020 11:32pm |
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Joe90 Member Since: 29 Apr 2010 Location: Hampshire Posts: 6407 |
Original Struts/Airbags were not Dunlop, they were Delphi Looks like Island 4x4 do BWI, which is part of Delphi . Experience is the only genuine knowledge, but as time passes, I have forgotten more than I can remember Volvo V70 P2 2006 2.4 Petrol 170bhp Estate SE MG Midget Mk1 1962 Previous: L322 Range Rover TDV8 3.6 2008; L322 Range Rover TD6 3.0 2002; P38A Range Rover V8 1999 |
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25th Jan 2020 12:10am |
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TDSIX Member Since: 18 Feb 2017 Location: Stirlingshire Posts: 210 |
My RR lay at the garage untouched for 2 weeks .. it lay about for a week before I took it to them, so it was booked in to lay about.. why do garages do that? If they said 'it'll be three weeks before we can even put it on the ramp' then i'd have gone elsewhere...
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11th Feb 2020 9:57pm |
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M@r]{ Member Since: 03 Nov 2019 Location: Northants Posts: 165 |
Is there anything you can do to the airbags to extend their life? Some sort of spray that aids how supple they are and helps stop them from cracking? |
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12th Feb 2020 10:57am |
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mrblonde Member Since: 24 Jan 2012 Location: Cambs Posts: 728 |
I had one front bag burst (passenger side) on my 2003 L322, it had covered about 110k miles at the time. Got a feeling mine dropped at the front only, so the other (good) front one must of exhausted somewhere as it was left looking like a dragster.
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18th Feb 2020 12:34pm |
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mrblonde Member Since: 24 Jan 2012 Location: Cambs Posts: 728 |
Was wondering this as well, raise to it off road height and wash/treat with some sort of rubber care? |
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18th Feb 2020 12:35pm |
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magu Member Since: 22 Sep 2014 Location: Burton on Trent Posts: 28 |
Just done the front on my 2004 vogue...about 3 hours a side....yes i know there are videos on youtube that show it bering done faster...they lie !
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20th Feb 2020 3:51pm |
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Valybejan Member Since: 17 Dec 2022 Location: Dunstable Posts: 6 |
Just had them replaced(2x front),no warnings anymore on dash...but still overnight front right goes down. Does it need to be calibrated or i still have a leak?
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17th Dec 2022 6:19am |
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paulbrown22 Member Since: 23 Dec 2017 Location: London/Poole Posts: 352 |
Did you replace the whole strut or just the bag? If it does inflate normally at start up, and then sinks overnight, that suggests a leak somewhere to me. What happens if you lift up into off-road mode - can you hear any air escaping then?
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17th Dec 2022 11:03pm |
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