Thread: ARB says D4s don't have shocks.

I have OME springs and Nitrocharger Sport shocks on my GQ Patrol, also my son's D1, my son in law's GU, my other son in law's GU and 80 series and so the list goes on. We obviously love them and I for one would be interested in Nitrocharger Sports for the D4. I just put new rear shocks on the car, which seem to be after market Delphi for a D3, and they are not much better than the worn D4 ones I took off. Next time I will get OE Delphi for D4 and pay the extra money but an alternative from ARB would great.

Originally Posted by BobD

I have OME springs and Nitrocharger Sport shocks on my GQ Patrol, also my son's D1, my son in law's GU, my other son in law's GU and 80 series and so the list goes on. We obviously love them and I for one would be interested in Nitrocharger Sports for the D4. I just put new rear shocks on the car, which seem to be after market Delphi for a D3, and they are not much better than the worn D4 ones I took off. Next time I will get OE Delphi for D4 and pay the extra money but an alternative from ARB would great.

D3 shocks are softer than the D4, there is no aftermarket airbag/shock for the D3/D4/RRS.

Baz.

Originally Posted by minibloodhound

Now that my D4 is starting to wallow I would love to be able have more confidence in my suspension (original suspension has only done 45k).

Is your D4 an early build? Apart from some early vehicles where some shocks failed rather than wore-out, most people seem to be happy with the ride until at least 80K and mostly well past 100K.

I replaced mine with D3 shocks at 30K because they were still too firm for my liking when combined with the D4 stiffer arbs and 19" tyres then got 60K out of the D3 set before they allowed too much wallowing. I refitted the D4s as a stop-gap waiting for Konis to find all 4 failed abruptly 5K later - perhaps something to do with them being stored horizontally for 18 months though.

Originally Posted by Redback

D3 shocks are softer than the D4, there is no aftermarket airbag/shock for the D3/D4/RRS.

Baz.

Baz,

They are Delphi shocks and air bags for a D3 (I did ask for shocks for a D4 but the suppliers sent D3 shocks and they were fitted before I could query it). Looking at the shocks, box and part numbers, they don't look like OEM to me but I could be wrong on this.

Unlike Graeme, I much prefer a better controlled shock (especially off road) and the D3 version that I have is too soft, as I said, only slightly better than the worn out D4 shocks that had done 130,000 km.

Bob

So in fairness to ARB, is there going to be a request to the mods to change the title of this thread?

I suggest something like:
"ARB know very well that D4s have shocks and have a perfectly valid reason for not developing a shock for the D4, but because brief comments on anti-social media sites are so easily misinterpreted, I thought their statement meant that they believed that D4s had no shocks, but I was wrong."

I read their post on FB and didn't read it as "didn't have shocks"..
I read it as "because it has airbags we aren't looking at a shock option at this time"

Originally Posted by Tombie

I read their post on FB and didn't read it as "didn't have shocks"..
I read it as "because it has airbags we aren't looking at a shock option at this time"

Me too.
When I read the Facebook comment in post #1, I took it the same way. That's why I said what I did in post #4.

Originally Posted by BobD

Baz,

They are Delphi shocks and air bags for a D3 (I did ask for shocks for a D4 but the suppliers sent D3 shocks and they were fitted before I could query it). Looking at the shocks, box and part numbers, they don't look like OEM to me but I could be wrong on this.

Unlike Graeme, I much prefer a better controlled shock (especially off road) and the D3 version that I have is too soft, as I said, only slightly better than the worn out D4 shocks that had done 130,000 km.

Bob

Yeah I like a firmer ride myself for better control, offroad in slow condition a softer shock does work a bit better though.

Baz.