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james · Alfasud Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 82

Hi

The car has Konis on there at the mo, but she failed the MOT on saturday, so i need to get some shocks. Its the passenger side, front and Rear.

So wheres the best and cheepest place to get them from, not sure if its worth sticking to Konis or not, as thay where put on in 2001, so thay did't last long.

Cheers

J
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Umm thinking of getting a Alfa 33 P4 16v cloverleaf.

I would have done but i could not see any nice ones, so on the end i went for a 145 QV. Very happy with it

But still looking for a nice cheep 33 cloverleaf.

tvatavuk · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject:

hmm, only 3 years. Konis had lifetime waranty for many shocks on few european markets. In this case Lifetime was cars not shocks time.
KONI sell repair kits, so you might want to try that also.
Last thing I heard about it, it was possible to buy yellow kit and rebuild red KONIs with it.
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Ken McCarthy · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject: Wanted Shocks

James

Konis can be serviced/repaired and there are people here (Brisbane, Australia) who do that for about AUD75 each. I don't know about doing it yourself but it may be possible.

Failure would be unusual I think but the performance will fall off over time. Three years life sounds a bit strange though. What have you been doing to them? I would certainly check out the warranty angle if you have the original purchase documents.

Regards
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