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[daveball]

My 1999 Omega Elite 3.0 Estate has got weeping rear shocks and they are the self levelling variety. I believe vauxhallparts are a shocking price and wanted to explore alternatives. I have been talking to Monroe Technical Help and they sell a levelling shock for 180 pounds a pair. They are pumped up manually by tyre pump or some such to level car for towing. He said that he had heard of people coupling these up to the auto levelling system of omegas, but didn't know how much modding was required.  Has anyone knowledge of doing this and can anyone tell me a cheaper solution as I'm getting near the cost of repairs equalling value of car.

Regards Dave

[bored bigyin54]

My 1999 Omega Elite 3.0 Estate has got weeping rear shocks and they are the self levelling variety. I believe vauxhallparts are a shocking price and wanted to explore alternatives. I have been talking to Monroe Technical Help and they sell a levelling shock for 180 pounds a pair. They are pumped up manually by tyre pump or some such to level car for towing. He said that he had heard of people coupling these up to the auto levelling system of omegas, but didn't know how much modding was required.  Has anyone knowledge of doing this and can anyone tell me a cheaper solution as I'm getting near the cost of repairs equalling value of car.

Regards Dave

ask webby if he still got the ones i put on ralf

[albitz]

Wasnt that a saloon Ralf ? 

[bored bigyin54]

Wasnt that a saloon Ralf ? 

ok i forgot that sorry

[YZ250]

GM Estate rear shock absorbers on Trade Club are £78.44 + vat each so not that bad really. Do you know anyone local with a TC card.

Omega ('94-'03)

Shock Absorbers

Application    Description                             Part No.      Retail        Trade    Trade Club   
3.0i 24v V6 - X30XE    Saloon; Ident W2   72119084    £122.00    £103.74    £77.81   

3.0i 24v V6 - X30XE    Estate;
With Automatic Self Levelling Device;          72119085   £123.00    £104.59   £78.44
Ident W7    
                                                                                                                                       

[pauls]

GM Estate rear shock absorbers on Trade Club are £78.44 + vat each so not that bad really. Do you know anyone local with a TC card.

Try josh wyatt 

[daveball]

Hi

Thanks for replies.   Don't know anything about Trade Club never used the forum to buy stuff. Are the prices you quote inc VAT and is it easy to get access to a card. i.e. is it a case of asking another forum  member for a borrow.??

Regards Dave

[tigers_gonads]

3 choices here

1/. Borrow a tradeclub card of a member on here if you have one close who can help.
2/. Join Autobahnstormers and give them 25 quid.  They will then send you one which is vallied for a year.
3/ Send a pm to AndyC and see if he can sort you out    (andy is a manager at Drive Vauxhall Bury)

All prices will be plus vat.

[tigers_gonads]

Are you looking to fit them yourself ?

We have our very own Loo Knee in Kidsgrove 

[daveball]

Thought of self fitting, does't sound too difficult from write-ups, however I am always open to saving work, lying under cars and soft tissue injuries from use of old decrepit tools. Loo nee is in Kidsgrove you say, I presume he's a mechanic who is for hire, will follow this up.

Cheers

Dave

[tunnie]

Its a doddle to do, access panel is in the boot, take up the carpet and 4 screws. Useful if you have ratchet spanners, saves a whole load of time.

The lower bolts on Estates can be a bit sticky, this is usually solved with brute force 

[tigers_gonads]

Thought of self fitting, does't sound too difficult from write-ups, however I am always open to saving work, lying under cars and soft tissue injuries from use of old decrepit tools. Loo nee is in Kidsgrove you say, I presume he's a mechanic who is for hire, will follow this up.

Cheers

Dave

Yup, he is one of the mechanics on here 

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=12562

[TheBoy]

Darth Loo-knee is your man, I reckon. Top bloke, I'd highly recommend him

[MonzaGSE]

I bought the monroe set for my 95 3 litre estate. Pretty much plugand play. Just different connectors on the air Lines. On one side i just cut the very end of the cars air line with a knife to make it fit the monroe shock. On the other side the omega air line was to short to reach the monroe shock. Just used about one meter of the airline from the monroe kit and modified the end with a lighter and a nail to connect it to the omega T piece over the rear axle. Works great and whole kit cost much less than one shock from Opel here in norway.

[daveball]

Hi MonzaGSE

Thats good news as according to Monroe Technical Department I need their LA361 type shocks which come in at 180 GB pounds free delivery. Can you confirm the part number required. Also they say that the pressure range of their shocks is 20 to 110 psi, does the vauxhall system produce these pressures, and is the top pressure of the Vx system limited to the max pressure figure for the Monroe shocks. I need to try to get the real part first, but if that can't be done then Monroe sounds a good fallback

Thanks for information and to all other posters.