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Omega General Help / Re: Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 13 June 2012, 16:34:45 »

Good advice DDen, thank you.  First though I will see if anyone can ID my old springs (on new thread/post) so I know exactly what I need as I am now wondering if they were a heavy duty version.

Re the KYB  RX5416P springs on Ebay that I bought (although QH springs actually sent), I did email the seller first with my reg number and other details and they confirmed they were correct for my car.

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Omega General Help / Estate rear tapered spring identification 2003 2.2Dti marked LQ

« on: 13 June 2012, 16:18:54 »

Not happy with recently fitted new rear springs so hope someone can ID the springs I had on before.  Car is 2003 2.2Dti estate without self levelling.
Tapered spring is 290mm long with wire thickness from 17mm centre to 10mm at the ends.  Spring is marked LQ halfway down in white paint.

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Omega General Help / Re: Pre facelift estate rear springs

« on: 13 June 2012, 16:06:10 »

Ordered 

Thanks for the help lads 

(Plus it's a continuos width wire. Omega ones taper at the ends.)

Did these turn out to be the correct tapered at the ends springs?

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 12 June 2012, 23:55:29 »

Have you a ebay link ?
Looking for some at the mo and sounds like they are best avoided 

The Ebay item number shown at the beginning of the posting is still valid.  The seller's Ebay ID was "kerryb4828" and trading as "Car parts and Spares".

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 11 June 2012, 16:25:45 »

Further update.
Rear QH springs fitted and although estate looks level (unloaded) rear is slightly lower than it was before (probably about 2cm).
Yesterday with only light luggage driving along roller-coaster fenland road it was bottoming out which it never used to do along that section of road even with a heavier load.
So, not impressed and I thought I should advise caution to anyone thinking of fitting QH springs or buying (supposedly) KYB springs from that Ebay source.
I will post a new thread to see if anyone can ID my original springs.

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 22 May 2012, 09:54:35 »

Update
For some reason I've had much better luck searching on Google this morning and the QH springs (QSS2383) seem to be correct for my estate as well as for a Carlton Mk 3 estate. 
As Lazydocker has pointed out QH are a reasonable brand and from what I can see the cost of these springs are normally in the higher range of prices so panic over I think.

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 21 May 2012, 14:27:12 »

Hmmm.... Tricky one. The listing implies you will get KYB springs (although the image does state that it's for illustration only and not the actual product) yet they've sent QH. I'd be considering returning them anyway as they aren't KYB

Mind you, at least they are a reasonable brand and not a "No-Name" cheapie

My thoughts exactly.
Now if I knew they were not suitable it would be easy (in theory anyway) to get my money back.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Newbie saying hello.

« on: 21 May 2012, 13:39:47 »

You're a friendly crowd!  Thanks for all the welcomes.  Once I get the rear springs sorted out I will get along to a local meet to say hello in person (Sam, I did vote but I assume 5 yes votes are still not enough for your Bedford meet).

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Omega General Help / Re: Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 21 May 2012, 13:18:01 »

KYB part number is OK for your car but the QSS number is for a Carlton estate

Thanks RobG for that.  So QSS2383 (which is written on the QH boxes as well as the invoice) springs are OK for a Carlton estate but does that necessarily mean they are wrong for my Omega estate?
Is there anyone in the trade and registered with Klarius who could look at their online QH catalogue for me?
Anyone fitted QH rear springs?
Robincdx

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Omega General Help / Rear estate springs - suitable?

« on: 19 May 2012, 23:37:52 »

I have a 2003 CDX 2.2 dti estate (reg. WP 03 OYM) and thought I had just bought a pair of KYB RX5416P rear springs for it - ebay 320899658175.  They arrived yesterday in Quinton Hazell boxes marked as "Type A rear 87-03/94".  My invoice showed the part number RX5416P crossed out and QSS2383 written in by hand.  Are these suitable for my estate please?

I am overly cautious as last year after the car broke a rear spring the local garage dismissed the spring I had purchased as being incorrect and fitted their "perfectly matching" rear spring.  However whilst Wheels in Motion were having to put right the tracking (because of same local garage, from same time) they advised me the new rear spring was not seated correctly and was probably the wrong type.  (Garage had redone tracking after I had complained that the car was completely undriveable after they fitted a new track rod end but WIM found it was still way out at 1 deg 17' instead of 0 deg 10', enough to scrub a good pair of front tyres in 1200 miles!).

So opinions welcomed on these QH springs, I need to get it right this time.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Newbie saying hello.

« on: 18 May 2012, 16:06:03 »

Hello oofers.
I have owned a 2003 CDX Omega estate 2.2dti for 18 months and although I registered as a member at the time I was never able to log in so just had to visit as a guest. I tried again on the new website a few weeks ago and was successful, no problems at all, so as I need a bit of help regarding rear springs I thought it only polite to say hello in here first.  This is my first Omega previously running Carlton estates for the last 20 odd years.  We are a Vauxhall family with the wife having owned various Astras since her troubled time with a Chevette many years ago!  This is a great website which I have found invaluable on many occasions.
Robin