From: Noddy on

"PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message
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> Noddy, I do hope that you have better luck as that would mean that they
> are worth getting again, but at the price they charge and the company
> attitude to complaints, I won't be in a hurry to try them again.

Interesting story, thanks for sharing.

Interesting that you commented about the price as for me that was one of the
things I liked about them. At 240 bucks for a pair of bags, coil springs and
associated brackets and fittings I thought they were *cheap*. Bearing in
mind that these are helper bags working in conjunction with factory leaf
springs, but they were almost exactly a hundred bucks cheaper than having
the factory springs re-worked and the ride quality is excellent.

--
Regards,
Noddy.


From: PhilD on

"Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message
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>
> "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message
> news:LVVIm.52648$ze1.34045(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
>> Noddy, I do hope that you have better luck as that would mean that they
>> are worth getting again, but at the price they charge and the company
>> attitude to complaints, I won't be in a hurry to try them again.
>
> Interesting story, thanks for sharing.
>
> Interesting that you commented about the price as for me that was one of
> the things I liked about them. At 240 bucks for a pair of bags, coil
> springs and associated brackets and fittings I thought they were *cheap*.
> Bearing in mind that these are helper bags working in conjunction with
> factory leaf springs, but they were almost exactly a hundred bucks cheaper
> than having the factory springs re-worked and the ride quality is
> excellent.
>
I mentioned the price issue only because for the short time I had them
before failure it wasn't very good value for money whereas the set I had for
10 years earnt their keep. I've been looking at the Polyair web site and can
find little in the way of warnings other than you must maintain a minimum of
5psi always. Nothing mentioned about "non-inflation causing perishing" but
the warranty is for 1 year or 20,000km which is why they dismissed my claim
after 4 years. I still think that mine sat on a shelf somewhere for too long
and started perishing before I got them.

At the price you paid I'm assuming that you have the red bag type not the
black bellows type which seems to be a far different material, and much more
expensive. Looking at the info on the bellows variety I was considering a
pair of them for the ute I hope to be getting within the next week for some
heavy load work but at $700 I'll see what it's like normally first.

By the way, in the pictures the shockers aren't the Bilstein's I raved a bit
about. After about 20 years they were finally starting to leak and failed me
on a rego inspection so I had to get some others quickly. Bad mistake, I
should have either seen if I could have got the old one's serviced or bought
the same again for very little extra. There's a subtle difference in the
ride quality that just isn't as comforting. The Bilstein's on corrugations
were brilliant.

PhilD


From: Jeßus on
In article <4af41413$0$92589$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>,
me(a)home.com said...
:
:Just to be different I thought I might write a quick review of an
:after-market product I tried out today, and to be a complete whacko it *is*
:car related :)

<snip>

Interesting, I've considered Polyairs a number of times over the years
but had doubts about their longevity. Please keep us posted on any pros
and cons Noddy.

From: Noddy on

"PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message
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> At the price you paid I'm assuming that you have the red bag type not the
> black bellows type which seems to be a far different material, and much
> more expensive.

Yeah, I got the red ones.

> Looking at the info on the bellows variety I was considering a pair of
> them for the ute I hope to be getting within the next week for some heavy
> load work but at $700 I'll see what it's like normally first.

Good idea.

There's a few different types around, including one rubber bumper type which
looks a lot like the black bellows thing from Polyair but instead just uses
the compressibility of the rubber to do it's job. They look interesting.

> By the way, in the pictures the shockers aren't the Bilstein's I raved a
> bit about. After about 20 years they were finally starting to leak and
> failed me on a rego inspection so I had to get some others quickly. Bad
> mistake, I should have either seen if I could have got the old one's
> serviced or bought the same again for very little extra. There's a subtle
> difference in the ride quality that just isn't as comforting. The
> Bilstein's on corrugations were brilliant.

Nice.

I had a customer years ago with a Fiat 124 who spent more than the car was
worth for a full set of Koni shocks because some friend of his at work
suggested they'd make his car "handle like a go-kart", and he cried after I
fitted them and a quick drive revealed that they made absolutely no
difference to the car's handling ability.

Still, at least he got a nice, large "Koni" striker that he displayed
proudly on his back window :)

--
Regards,
Noddy.


From: Noddy on

"Je�us" <none(a)all.org> wrote in message
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> Interesting, I've considered Polyairs a number of times over the years
> but had doubts about their longevity. Please keep us posted on any pros
> and cons Noddy.

Will do.

Not much to say against them so far. Fitting them in my particular case was
an unspecified quantity of urine, and the difference they've made to the
ride quality of the vehicle is brilliant. Both loaded *and* empty.

--
Regards,
Noddy.


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