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[tunnie]

Sure I paid around £45, but that was without trade though.

[amba]

Corrected as just had call from dealers asking if I wanted them to be ordered
£37=62 inc

[vauxsull]

I'm confused by the pictures shown on here !! Ibhad taken my rear shocks off to replace the rubbers and there wasn't a steel " tube" thing inside the old ones nor in the new ones to be fitted? Also there wasn't a washer/ spacer ontop of the shock either... These where the original shicks too and haven't been off before....

[Nick W]

I'm confused by the pictures shown on here !! I had taken my rear shocks off to replace the rubbers and there wasn't a steel " tube" thing inside the old ones nor in the new ones to be fitted? Also there wasn't a washer/ spacer on top of the shock either... These where the original shocks too and haven't been off before....

The steel tube is often so badly rusted that it looks as if it's part of the shock. Twisting it with a large pair of pliers usually removes what is left of it. Measuring how long it is before you remove it is a good idea, as that makes acquiring/making a new one much simpler.

[vauxsull]

Sodding hell I never noticed if they where in the shocks or not? There definitely wasn't a spacer on top of the shock though? The new rubber's went on a treat though.. Do I need to remove them again??

[05omegav6]

They probably won't last very long without all the bits fitted...

[vauxsull]

So there's another strip down at the weekend then.....is there a part number for the tube thing in the middle?

[05omegav6]

Search it here... Try test Zone and gen car chat... Done to death earlier this year

[tunnie]

So there's another strip down at the weekend then.....is there a part number for the tube thing in the middle?

Only takes 10 mins each side, including getting tools out 

[vauxsull]

Its not the doing it its not knowing if I'm missing bits Tha may need ordering... The bushes took 2 weeks to come from Germany.

[tunnie]

Pop them off and check, it took me 10 mins to change them. Be even less to check what's what, before ordering

[vauxsull]

All I fitted was.... 2 top ( in boot) rubber's and 2 top of shock rubbers with 1 metal spacer under the upper most nut in boot.. Nothing fell off while dismantling so can only assume the metal tubes are fused to the shocks?

[05omegav6]

All I fitted was.... 2 top ( in boot) rubber's and 2 top of shock rubbers with 1 metal spacer under the upper most nut in boot.. Nothing fell off while dismantling so can only assume the metal tubes are fused to the shocks?

The kit contains two large washers which should be oriented as above... there is also a metal washer of some sort on the dust cover... this does NOT replace the lower washer provided in the kit

[vauxsull]

And yet my rear shocks are original and I'm missing bits?

[tunnie]

3.0 was stopped in 2000, I can't see a 15 year old car on original shocks? As many know I'm not hard on cars, I'm on my 3rd set for the rears on the 2.2.

First two sets were genuine GMs.

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