Warning to all - Gaz Golds

[gordonsalive]

Seconded - great service from them

[macdeb]

^^^ same here, top bloke

[rocca]

I sent my 4 shocks to to L*DA to be refurbed... They wanted £750 !!!! and said it would take 7-10 days.
Got them back, took them to GAZ on a Thurs, they called me on Mon to say they were ready.
They only charged me £180 +vat. Very professional and friendly outfit that I cannot recommend enough.
If you have any questions (no matter how stupid) they are happy to explain all options.
Will definitely buy/refurb at GAZ again.

[phazed]

Taking my Monos back for a service after 4 years in a few weeks.

[Walford]

phazed said:

Taking my Monos back for a service after 4 years in a few weeks.

how many miles

[phazed]

Only about 18K but about 25 track days.

[potato muncher]

GGP on mine for 2 and a half years after an AVO on the o/s front Snapped at about 900 miles.
GGP make a friend of mine jealous as my Chim handles better than his and he builds cars from scratch.

[BIGMIKE1]

Probably a stupid question but what's involved when they service them, are they back to new standard and what about the actual spring will they tell you if they're due for replacing???

[RobertoBlanco]

Wait, just to be clear: Refurbishing the shocks would be due to wear, i suppose? Is wear really that pronounced on the GAZ shocks and/or the springs? Or is that some kind of regular service for them?

Or ist this connected to the issues described earlier on this thread, which should be related to corrosion and fatigue fractures.

I'm a bit confused here.

[phazed]

Even Nitron recommend annual servicing.

[Graham]

generally in a service they will strip them down, replace any seals, clean everything, replace the oil and re gas them, then check performance on the dyno.


you also want springs checking , as they do loose temper

last time i had my penskies serviced the oil was minging and contaminated, the seals were wearing , one shaft was slightly bent, thus damaging a bearing, and all 4 were down on gas pressure.


after the service they were totally transformed like new. then again for aaround 200 quid a corner i should hope so.

like most high performance things they have tighter tolerances to work properly so a little wear causes performance drop off.. in a cheap damper, say like on a family road car, they are built cheap and made to operate with a large tolerance without impact on performance so you dont notice any drop off and never touch them for 100k miles.. I dare say you could leave gaz, nitron,protech, penski, ohlins untouched for 100k miles but they performance would be very impaired.

[AceOfHearts]

Slightly annoying bump to this thread. Working on the car today (trying to raise ride height) and I spotted this





Will have to give GAZ a call in the morning and hopefully work out a solution

[AceOfHearts]

Got the shocks off the car on Saturday, and am going to be popping off to GAZ in the morning for them to have a look at them.

[Sevenman]

AceOfHearts said:

Slightly annoying bump to this thread. Working on the car today (trying to raise ride height) and I spotted this

Not entirely sure what I am looking for there?

Is it leaking from the adjuster?

If so, my Gold Pros started leaking from there after less than 5000 miles and 2 years

Gaz refurbed them at no cost, will have to see how they last.

[jamieduff1981]

Sevenman said:

AceOfHearts said:

Slightly annoying bump to this thread. Working on the car today (trying to raise ride height) and I spotted this

Not entirely sure what I am looking for there?

Is it leaking from the adjuster?

If so, my Gold Pros started leaking from there after less than 5000 miles and 2 years

Gaz refurbed them at no cost, will have to see how they last.

The bush eyes have fractured. Not good at all. I've got Gaz Golds on mine (not my choice to be honest). I've asked for a very thorough check over at it's service and MOT in a fortnight as it just doesn't feel right and makes a crack/ping noise from the N/S/R sometimes.

[Geoff38]

If you expand the pictures you can see white fracture lines in the blue alloy , the first one is above the bearing and the second one is at the bottom. (I was typing my reply at same time as above so sorry fur duplication )

[AceOfHearts]

I will get some better pictured later now they are off the car, one has fractured and the other has totally split and peeled away from the bush!

[portzi]

jamieduff1981 said:

Sevenman said:

AceOfHearts said:

Slightly annoying bump to this thread. Working on the car today (trying to raise ride height) and I spotted this

Not entirely sure what I am looking for there?

Is it leaking from the adjuster?

If so, my Gold Pros started leaking from there after less than 5000 miles and 2 years

Gaz refurbed them at no cost, will have to see how they last.

The bush eyes have fractured. Not good at all. I've got Gaz Golds on mine (not my choice to be honest). I've asked for a very thorough check over at it's service and MOT in a fortnight as it just doesn't feel right and makes a crack/ping noise from the N/S/R sometimes.

the gaz gold nickels , the cheaper of the gaz range are steel, where as the gaz Gold pro and the monos appear to be Ali? . so the steel gaz shocks will be stronger but heavier . l had the nickels and upgraded to nitrons which are Ali alloy.

mark

mark

[phazed]

Apparently the problem at the time was the rose joint/fitting in the alli ends.

The recalled and upgraded loads, probably most and FOC but obviously some got away!

Contact GAZ, they have very good customer service.

[Konrod]

Have to agree with the above. I went back with a squeak (which turned out to be the ARB bushes) in 2010 just after I'd bought the car, they took one look and just swapped them all for new even though the eyes weren't fractured. The issue is that some of the bearing inserts were machined to be fractionally too big O/D so could be pressed in but then stressed the mounting eye which fractures. Problem is they can't tell which had the wrong inserts.